Worth a look.

“Emergency call restricted, workshop” Warning in Skoda cars

10 hours ago, Aldfort said:

Worth a look.

“Emergency call restricted, workshop” Warning in Skoda cars

I'd certainly go with his first theory, the signal getting interrupted by communication masts etc

14 hours ago, Routemaster1461 said:

The real issue with this fault is that there are several possible causes. I have posted on this subject many times as Skoda suggested several possible solutions and it seems difficult to diagnose which will be successful. After being initialy told that it was probably the switch between continental phone providers, and me telling them that it happened in the UK as well, it changed to faulty aerials. I had four new aerials, and it still persisted. I was told, some time between the aerial changes that it needed a software update with also failed to cure the issue. Eventually last autumn, after the issue had persisted since summer 2023 (iirc), a fairly long investigation concluded that it was a faulty cable connecting something near the back bumper to something else at the front of the car. Even this became an issue as the part number that Skoda Tech supplied turned out to be a cable approx 4 metres too short. Eventually the dealers had to make one up. So it allseems well now. We've not used the car much since but thankfully it is now seems OK.

I don't write this to worry other owners. I just want to point out that there are many potential ideas about what the cause of the issue is. The only potentail cause I have seen online that has not been mentioned to me is a failure of of the control unit. Luckily for me the entire issue has been covered by my warranty and extended warranty so the only cost to me has been the inconvenience of taking the car in and collecting again and the time that it has taken, with at least 2 visits taking a week in the workshop. As it was a fault, they comped the loan cars.

Thank you for this^^

My latest episode since my last post, SOS warning on again then it took out the Skoda navigation and my phone connection to the infortainment screen. Only thing that worked was the radio.

It's never done that before, just the SOS fault showing most times.

All back now working, of course that was switching off the car and next day starting up for my next journey.

I still think it's something interfering with signals to the car as you drive past certain places although software updates I've not had since I've owned the car, a possibility.

I like it in a sort of way to my shed alarm, yes I know, a £10 buy from the DIY shop, but... That was working fine, or not working, not alarming until they stuck up a new telephone mast about 200 metres from my house. The alarm randomly setting, I thought I'd got mice in there moving around, searched the shed, nothing, put a new battery in, it still alarmed. Then someone suggested wrapping kitchen foil around the alarm, like a shield, it worked, no more triggers, it was the phone mast that triggered the alarm.

Something else I've noticed is that on a hot day, parked in the sun the infotainment can go mad. I use a cheap tinfoil sunshade in the windscreen. Weirdest thing I saw was the steering wheel buttons reversing function (i.e, left buttons doing right button things)!