Hi All

Brand new vRS picked up in July, and with 3k under my belt it's so far exceeding all my expectations, I'm delighted. It's used for regular long haul 200 mile journeys, so the tech and convenience to make it easy to drive are super important to me. With that in mind, after living and experiencing the car, and also ferreting through the handbook, I have a few possibly stupid questions...

1. Pan Roof Blind. Is there a way to make it open/close automatically on unlock/lock like I could on my outgoing Discovery?

2. I often (once a week) get a message at the top of the screen (over a blacked out screen) about the system setting(s) being updated, asking me if I want to save them. But I don't know what setting(s) that refers? All I know is if I press accept, it switches me out of whatever mode I was in, and back into default.

3. I religiously use Waze as my Sat Nav (via CarPlay) including all alerts etc. With that in mind I have no need for the on-board sat-nav alerts, but I can't seem to find the area where I can turn off the in-built Skoda Speed camera warnings which I assume are being triggered by the onboard mapping software? When it triggers, the screen goes black and asks me to acknowledge at the top of the screen, which is annoying because when I'm on the M25 the car is shouting at me twice (once Waze, once on-board) about speed cameras, and also blanking the screen which I have to clear each time.

4. The minimum distance on the ACC leaves quite a large gap (much bigger than cars I've owned in the past). This means cars will often jump out of lane 1 or 2, forcing the car to brake and maintain the another minimum distance. I can make the gap bigger, but seemingly not smaller. Any way to override this or am I stuck with the preset distances?

5. The wireless charger trays don't appear to charge the phone above the level the phone is at when I place the phone (iPhone 15 Pro Max) into the tray. I'm connected to CarPlay and streaming Waze and Spotify, but It'll only maintain the level and not go down, regardless of how far the journey is. If I want to charge it up over the level I seemingly have to plug it into a USB charging post.

Thanks in advance

Disappointing no one has replied to you yet. Kodaq owners must be shy

I'm not a Kodaq owner but should be this coming week, although only the basic PHEV version offered here is Australia so no pano roof and I'll be suffering from 'techshock' when it does arrive due to my current cars being pretty old.

Kudos to you for checking the user manual before asking, surprisingly few do.

If the Pano roof opening and closing link to unlocking and locking is not in the user manual, then it is probably not an option. Might be worth exploring VCDS options but if you cannot operate the opening/closing from the screen (only the physical switch) then I would be pessimistic.

Page 141 in the Kodiaq User Manual tells you how to turn off the speed warnings or increase the warning threshold.

Unlikely to be able to shorten the minimum distance on the ACC (VCDS again?). Best bet would be to estimate the minimum distance it is leaving and check with the dealer if it is correctly set.

I was initially stunned when I drove in the UK (on the M25) by how close people drive at speed to the car in front. Took me a while to adjust to prevent the same problem of people jumping into the gap I left. Of course, BMW drivers did it without indicating.

I've no real experience of wireless chargers but they are only rated for 15 watts and even that rate may be compromised by whatever protection holder you may be using for the phone?

Glad you are enjoying your car overall though.