Has anyone had any issues with charging related breakdowns with the hybrid Kodiaq on scheduled , overnight cheap rate changing. We have had 3 call outs from Skoda Assist / AA for a flat 12V battery after plugging the thing in overnight to use off-peak electricity. The first mentioned the 91SV campaign- suggesting there is a known fault . The car has been back to the dealer twice - first time they updated the software to the latest version ( we'd only had the car 5 weeks so odd it didn't have the latest software already) The second the very proactive AA guy followed us to the dealer there and then and insisted they looked at the car. They kept it 3 days and replaced the 12V battery. The 3rd time , we jut took the AA's jump start and have been on tender hooks since. Skoda Head Office have been involved but , although sort of helpful, just keep referring us back to the dealer to sort it. Sometimes you can charge like this several times before the flat battery happens again- and it's always OK with on-demand charging.

Today I ran an auto scan- I'd previously resisted because it's a brand new car and I don't want to be accused of interfering with it.. An absolute slew of errors - 14 of them , including 51 Electric Drive, 813C Charging Communication, 8105 DC/DC Converter 12V, 8C HV Battery.

We got rid of a really tidy, fully functioning 10 year old Superb 3T diesel - before it got a chance to get unreliable and that we could drive in low emission zones. Backfired on us a bit. Ha anyone else had problems or knows what this 91SV campaign is?

Thanks

Graeme.

We're having this problem now. Did you get it sorted? AA man told me that leaving it plugged in but not charging is draining the battery, did you experience that at all? We use hypervolt home pro 3 and Octopus auto scheduling.

I've heard somewhere that the start stop nature of the Intelligent Octopus Go scheduling causes the car to "stay awake" constantly and this drains the 12v battery. You don't say if you have IOG or just OG with offpeak hours. If you are not using IOG try disconnecting the car/charger from Octopus (or just setting it to 100%) and use the Hypervolt scheduling to start and stop the charge at the off peak times.

Has anyone had any progress on this?

Hi,

Sorry to hear others are also having problems with the VAG hybrid drive train.

We've had the software update. I can't immediately tell you the code for the campaign. I'll dig around and post it later. It took 2 or 3 days to do and is for this very well known fault. The very fault that Skoda customer service insisted didn't exist and was just a problem with our car that the dealer would fix. They didn't. I really really hate being lied to. Last Skoda we are buying, for certain.

Anyway, back to the point. The update always crashes the car, apparently, and it takes a while to get it back to life. For that reason , the work is always booked for 2 or 3 days and you need a hire/ courtesy car if you want to stay mobile and you will be made to pay for that privalige. We watched, with some amusement , all the distressd messages on the Skoda App while the dealer had the damn thing.

It has worked but it will now only charge to 80%. The update is designed to do that and it makes a mockery of the selling point of it having a big battery. They are still plugging the car as having a big battery that can take you 50 miles on charge but that is not true if you charge it using the overnight tariff which skoda also plug to make the car look cheaper to run than it is. just another one of Škoda's liberties taken with the truth.

There you have it. There is a software campaign and it does sort of work but you'llfeel short changed.

Graeme.

Thanks for letting me know.

We've had a brand new KODIAQ delivered in mid feb. We've been told repeatedly there's nothing wrong and that the car is on the latest update.

I'm completely clueless as to what's going on and what's at fault. I can't quite believe that the exact same fault is happening but it's now completely unrelated to the car.

If anyone's any other ideas please please let me know.

Hi

Sorry you've got problems - they are very well known . The AA guys will happily tell you how many cars they've recovered and what they're going on to as their next job. Even the call handers know what you're going to say. There is quite a bit on the web as well. Problems with the VAG iv platform are widely known. But dealers and Skoda customer services will swear blind that there's no known issues. I genuinely wish we'd have done more homework before buying this thing. There was even a clue we were too stupid to pick up on - we couldn't get a towbar because VAG hadn't managed to get the wiring to work properly with the iv platform, but there was a fix coming soon. As far as I'm aware there isn't a fix for this so far.

The initial 'light' recall was the 91SV campaign , covering flattening of the 12 V battery, which wasn't successful for many cars. The later campaign is P0EE to update the car's software to version PV4 and is to address flattening of 12V battery, failure to start , random error messages and the info screen going blank as well as incompatibility with overnight cheap rate charging. That is a very brutal update that , by all accounts, causes cars to crash their software and it takes a bit of effort to bring them back - for this reason the garage will ask to keep the car 2/3 days.

The result is a car that is better but won't charge past 80 % by design and still 'resets' itself overnight very regularly which is very annoying . Definitely not perfect but it's probably as good as it's going to be and we can survive for another 18 months until we change the car. We don't really want to have to rely on this thing once the warranty expires. I hope you get your car sorted. Let me know how you get on.