Just looking if anyone else has the same issue or if it's normal.

It's getting cold enough that every morning i have dew/water droplets on my mirrors.Driver's side is with automatic darkening and passenger side without.

Driver's side mirror is taking a lot longer to get rid of the dew (3-4 minutes) while passenger's side takes along 1-2 minutes to clear up.It's been several times that i have noticed this.Does anyone else have the same issue?

Edited 21 September, 20241 yr by Ken502

I always wipe the mirrors, its an old habit, same with the windows modern car batteries work hard enough

so a quick wipe won't go amiss.

I haven't had the chance to try them out yet....I can't seem to find where to turn them on...I can only find front and rear window heater. Are they combined or am i blind? 

 

Anyone? 

 

 

Ooooh...yep, I must be blind. I did not notice those extra icons on the bottom of the rotary knob at all. 🫣

 

I'll check on my way home 🧐😄

 

Thank you! 

42 minutes ago, szilvita said:

Ooooh...yep, I must be blind. I did not notice those extra icons on the bottom of the rotary knob at all. 🫣

 

I'll check on my way home 🧐😄

 

Thank you! 

 

Don't worry you are not alone.

 

When i got he Enyaq in Sept I had a brief panic moment looking for a heated mirror switch a few weeks later. Was used to them coming on with the front screen in my Ford.

 

Now I keep forgetting to turn them off 🙂

Edited 25 December, 20241 yr by Stonekeeper

15 minutes ago, Stonekeeper said:

 

Don't worry you are not alone.

 

When i got he Enyaq in Sept I had a brief panic moment looking for a heated mirror switch a few weeks later. Was used to them coming on with the front screen in my Ford.

 

Now I keep forgetting to turn them off 🙂

My dad drives Ford, he said the same thing, that they are combined in his Kuga. But since I ordered the front heat as extra and the heated mirrors were already a part of the "advanced" model it did not make much sense in my case.

So simple and yet .... 🫣

 

Thanks again!

Edited 25 December, 20241 yr by szilvita

@szilvita it is not against any law to read the Owner's Manual, in and out of car warranty reading and referring to the Owner's Manual could say you time, effort and money (often by avoiding Dealerships / garages / mechanics / auto-electricians) also helps with prevention being better than cure.  Loads of help also here of course

 

It is neither against any law to give people a chance. It's one of my very first questions...Had it been my 10th "silly"  question in a row I would have understood your comment....

 

Actually I (maybe one of few people)  DO read the manual both on paper and the digital one and also use google to find answers to my arising questions. But I am JUST a human being, coming from a totally different world of a tiny basic car and with family illness and problems on top, I completely missed those lower icons no matter how or where Iooked.  My bad. Sometimes you just go blind when searching or don't even think that's where the answer could be. 

 

@Stonekeeper, I appreciate your kind help and patience. I actually wondered why you showed me the same pict regarding mirror adjustment I had already seen in the manual, but it made me take an extra good look. And the answer was right there... 😖😣

1 hour ago, szilvita said:

It is neither against any law to give people a chance. It's one of my very first questions...Had it been my 10th "silly"  question in a row I would have understood your comment....

 

Actually I (maybe one of few people)  DO read the manual both on paper and the digital one and also use google to find answers to my arising questions. But I am JUST a human being, coming from a totally different world of a tiny basic car and with family illness and problems on top, I completely missed those lower icons no matter how or where Iooked.  My bad. Sometimes you just go blind when searching or don't even think that's where the answer could be. 

 

@Stonekeeper, I appreciate your kind help and patience. I actually wondered why you showed me the same pict regarding mirror adjustment I had already seen in the manual, but it made me take an extra good look. And the answer was right there... 😖😣

 

I always read the manuals but have never had a car before when it has been necessary to turn heated mirrors on. They have always been connected to the screen or HRW. But my normal Brand has been Ford.

 

Now I have to remember to turn them off.

 

I assumed with the enyaq it was because it was an EV and use affects range. (ever so slightly).

 

Didn't realise until your post that it appears to be a Skoda/vag idea?

Edited 27 December, 20241 yr by Stonekeeper

3 hours ago, szilvita said:

It is neither against any law to give people a chance. It's one of my very first questions...Had it been my 10th "silly"  question in a row I would have understood your comment....

Sorry my reply wasn't meant in that way or a way to upset you.  Yeap I should have put if you've not already done so but you must understand the only information I know of you and your circumstances is the tiny amount in your posts and based on your previous posts it might be that you are new to cars or car ownership.  There is too a lot of male macho b*ll*cks around about not reading instructions (particularly with some tradesmen in my long experience).  Apologies to you, as you put we are all only human and make mistakes, and I have read Owner's Manuals and missed some information, the newer manuals particularly are not always the easiest to access the information you want (and contain errors and omissions), I very often forget what I have read.

 

I do not think questions are silly, often it can be silly not to ask the question.

 

Even with the same manufacturer or even same model range the set up of the car's buttons and switches can vary so much and there is so much on modern cars that getting in to drive a different car can take a while to sort and get used to, even simple things like having the indicator and wiper stalks the opposite way round on the steering column can be 'fun'.

 

Edited 27 December, 20241 yr by nta16

@Nta16  All good

 

Well, I have had my own car (from brand new) for almost 10 years. But it was a Ford KA 2015. There is not much "car" in such a tiny thing compared to the new cars today.  A lot has happened since then. I feel like I have to learn to drive all over again and feel like a grandma when driving🫣 The Fabia feels and sounds so different! Takes some time to get use to and feel confident again. 

 

Believe me, had I not looked in the manuals I would have had tons of questions 🥴 

You are young, a 2015 Ford Ka is only tiny and stripped-down car compared with the huge monsters of 2024, the newer cars are even more remote for the driver to feel the car and the road and the car's computers takeover too much control from the driver often, the computer programs and sensors often make errors and have "glitches" and can not yet know what a good driver knows about the road and driving conditions.  You still need all your driving skills that you first learnt.  Do not fully trust or always follow what the 2024 car tells or advises you.  Gear selection is more set up for making mpg figures look good for marketing rather than engine or driving conditions ahead that it can't see or predict (yet?).  Wheels and tyres are oversized, even for the bloated overweight modern cars, as a matter of decades old fashion rather than practicality.  I find front and lane "assist" to be very unreliable in the cars I've driven with them.

 

Don't worry about driving slow modern cars in my opinion are boring at high speeds anyway (and yes I have travelled and sometimes driven in some very quick and fast modern cars, on roads and closed-tracks).  Until a couple of years ago the following was my one and only everyday car used all year round, small and striped-down from new, you had to lift the bonnet to turn the heater on or off, the single door mirror was only heated by solar gain. 😁 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GWowHiIktA

 

On 25/12/2024 at 20:27, Stonekeeper said:

Now I keep forgetting to turn them off 🙂

 

First working day with the new car. Looked forwards to driving more than just a km or two in town.  Approx 33 km to work and...of course.... It was snowing! Clean car already gone. 😞not quite the trip I was longing for. 

 

Anyways....I could try out the heated mirrors!... Yeah...what did I find still activated in the evening when parking the car at a store....yeap... The heat... Oops. 🫣😂

Edited 2 January, 20251 yr by szilvita

One time when I drove my wife's car in say March I noticed the mirrors were on the heater seating so I turned them off, seems they might have been left on from possibly sometime in the January. 😁 

 

To be fair on my wife's 2015 Mk3 there is not any warning light to show the heated mirrors are on and as the mirrors only fold in manually once you have the door mirrors set you rarely use the combined switch.

 

Personally I have never seen the need for heated mirrors where we live in the UK at least, scraping or wiping snow, frost or rain off the mirrors at the same time as doing so on the windscreen and windows has been sufficient   But being an older driver I am used to not having buttons and car features for convenience which I think can make many modern drivers too lazy and too remote from the environment they drive in.   In the UK when it first snows heavy you can see cars driving around with only the snow cleared by the wipers, lights and number plates still covered in snow (which is illegal) and still drying in a way as if the roads are clear and dry, they have stopped (or never did) thinking for themselves and relying on the car to do everything for them even if the items do not exist or capable or fully capable to overcome the physics of the real world.

 

An example of first working day after Xmas break in UK. - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/529014-its-that-time-of-year-again-time-to-avoid-flat-batteries/

 

To the best of my knowledge no Skoda car (historically or current) has a tell-tale light to indicate that its exterior heated rear-view mirrors are turned on. As the mirror-heaters only operate when the car's engine is running (as stated on the image provided by Stonekeeper above) its hardly catastrophic if one forgets to turn them off (which I often do). 

 

There's a longish posting about this on the Enyaq forum (though I don't know if all of the technical information is correct).

 

https://www.enyaqforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1775

11 minutes ago, DerekU said:

To the best of my knowledge no Skoda car (historically or current) has a tell-tale light to indicate that its exterior heated rear-view mirrors are turned on. As the mirror-heaters only operate when the car's engine is running (as stated on the image provided by Stonekeeper above) its hardly catastrophic if one forgets to turn them off (which I often do). 

 

There's a longish posting about this on the Enyaq forum (though I don't know if all of the technical information is correct).

 

https://www.enyaqforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1775

 

Sorry if my post gave the implication that leaving switched on would be "catastrophic" that was not the intent.

 

Even in the on position I doubt the mirrors are heated all the time, there will no doubt be a timer involved. The point was they would be activated everytime the vehicle was started which may not be necessary and wasteful, especially in an ev.

 

When they are connected to HRW you know when they are likely to be on because the hrw does have an indication that it is on.

 

The switch on the door panel is less visible whilst driving.

I just used the word "catastrophic" because I'm quite fond of it 😀 not because your postings gave any such impression.

 

Prior to buying a Fabia Mk4 I owned a 2021 Hyundai i20. This had a dashboard button for rear window 'defrosting' and had heated exterior rear-view mirrors. However, although the i20 Owner's Manual covered the use of that switch, no mention was made that the switch also turned on mirror heating. It regularly caused confusion among i20 owners.

 

Personally, I prefer the Skoda separate switches approach, though adding a heating-on tell-tale light on the mirror switch would be an improvement. No mirror heating means that, when the weather is wet, rain collecting on the mirrors will obscure vision and won't be dispersed rapidly by air passing over them. That's when mirror heating earns its keep.

Edited 3 January, 20251 yr by DerekU

2 hours ago, Stonekeeper said:

The point was they would be activated every time the vehicle was started which may not be necessary and wasteful, especially in an ev.

 

 

Exactly;  just a waste of energy, battery, fuel or whatever such heater is "eating"  

1 hour ago, DerekU said:

Prior to buying a Fabia Mk4 I owned a 2021 Hyundai i20. 

Actually the Fabia wasn't my first pick (I almost skipped it after first look) I quickly realized that the choices and low prices of 2015 micro cars were gone with the wind. Made no sense going so small with such pricetags and weak engines! After my first search through different brands I had an eye on the I20. But the more I read about the Fabia the more I ended up liking it.