Does anyone know if you can drive the car without the key using Skoda connect? We have push button start, the key just sits near the ash tray space.

No.

Ah, now here is a thing - yes you can, not with Skoda Connect only though, you need the key or the scanners thieves use to start it.

But you can drive without the key. But it causes problems when you stop and turn off the engine - see below!!!!!!!

You can start the car as long as the signal from the key reaches the sensors and they think the key is inside - hence how those little a**holes that nick cars with scanners do it. Once the car is stopped and the engine is turned off, they can't be restarted again though.

Also, you can start the car, take the key away from the car and still drive it. Used to happen to me and my oppo at work all the time (Motorway Coppers in BMW's).

We used to swap over driving half way through the shift but the person that started sometimes kept the keys. On a few occasions I've either been dropped off at base with the keys or dropped my oppo off with the keys and then gone to fuel up at the petrol station - then oooops, a very embarrassed traffic copper with an expensive BMW 330, 530 or X5 on the garage forecourt waiting for the oppo to bring the keys!!!!!!!

Edited 10 February, 20233 yr by Rich_N
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