Bouncypete

Sorry you've taken offence to this but that comment wasn't aimed at you, it was aimed at Skoda. If you read this forum you'll see that customers, like myself, have bought cars expecting the car to have been built to a modern standard, only to find some ridiculous omission. In one case a customer bought an Octavia specifically to tow his caravan only to find once delivered, it would invalidate his insurance if he fitted an aftermarket towbar. Or in this case, they have not fitted a rear wiper that was standard on the car that was made just two years earlier and is actually a 'free' option. If they are not making money out of it, why leave it off. I could understand if the Octavia has never had a rear wiper but that’s not the case here. Hence my fustration with Skoda.

It's 2021 not 1971, surely a rear wiper is standard on a hatchback these days. The very first thing I do when I'm leaving my house is reverse the car (not onto the road outside) which is much harder to do when it's covered in rain. Every single hatchback I've every owned had a rear wiper which swept the glass clear as soon as I engaged reverse gear so it makes me feel like I'd swapped the Mk3 for a poverty spec car.

I replaced a MkIII SE Technology lease car with a MkiV SE but ended up rejecting the car as I was having continuous software issues. Whilst it might be possible that most of these issue have been fixed via an update I wasn't prepare to take that risk. Anyway, to answer you question, I was shocked to find out the MkiV SE doesn't have a rear window wiper. I'd have thought that was a standard thing for any hatchback in 2021 so I didn't look for it in the specs.

I had EXACTLY the same issue with my car. Both the speed limiter AND cruise control worked. The car wasn't equiped with the stalk. You selected either CC or SL via the steering wheel as per the video. The all of a sudden I could highlight and select any of the menu items except CC. They had to reload some software to fix it.

So many visits in such a short time frame but If I recall correctly this issue was the only one where I didn't need to leave it with them overnight and I waited about an hour and a half for the reload.

I rejected my car after a traumatic month. During that time it felt like it was in the dealers longer than it was on my drive. It wasn't a patch on the Mk3 it replaced. Life is just too short to keep waiting to reboot a car that's stuck on 'loading driver profile'.

I've had this and I'm sorry to say but it was a dealer visit to fix. They had to reload some software. In my case it worked fine initially but they'd left the transport blocks in the suspension on delivery. When it went in to have the transport blocks removed they said that it had missed three software campaigns that should have been loaded during its PDI. I'd only just got back home from the dealers when I realised that I could no longer select cruise control exactly like your video shows. I could set the other menu items, just not cruise. Back yet again to the dealers to reload whatever software it needed.

Difficult answer. I've recently returned a Mk3 1.0 TSI lease car and I was REALLY impressed with it. It had a suprising amount of torque for such a little engine and was very quiet and smooth on the motorway. Despite being a big car it was never the slowest car on the road and if i just engaged adaptive cruise control it would just keep up to the car in front without needing me to change gear everytime we came to a hill. However, I have just rejected the MkiV 1.0 TSI I repaced it with. Whilst this was mainly due to repeated software glitches with the cars systems. At delivery the MkiV engine wasn't a patch on the Mk3 and even after a software or mapping update I do'nt think the newer version was as tractable as the old one. That car was a pre-registered First Edition so maybe later build cars are better. But long term I just could not live with having to reboot the infotainment every couple of days to get past 'loading driver profile' so I could change radio station or the cabin temperature.

I've just successfully rejected an Octavia iV lease car after a few weeks of 'owning' it. It was delivered with plastic transport blocks still in the suspension and I couldn't get the infotainment screen to work properly or load a driver profile. It also didn't run as well as my previous MkIII despite having the same engine. It just struggled on and off the throttle like the fuelling was all over the place. Back to the dealers. They did three software updates one of which improved the engine mapping but it still wasn't quite as good as the MkIII. When I went to drive back from the dealers the infotainment screen wouldn't do anything even after a reboot so they kept it in for another day. The next day driving back the cruise control worked for about half the journey then it wouldn't select/engage. Back again, more software. After all that the infotainment screen still froze on the loading driver profile screen at start up every couple of journeys. All that in just 400 miles so I gave up and rejected the car. I MUST point out that the supplying dealer which obvously didn't PDI the car properly and the dealer who was lumbered with task of sorting out the issues were two different dealers. I thought Skoda as a company was at fault for not writing the cars software properly not the second dealer tried to bend over backwards to sort it for me but at the end of the day can only install the software Skoda have written. I now know that the SEAT Leon and Golf Mk8 also have similar issues so it would appear software is causing issues throughout most of the VAG group, not just Skoda.

I've just rejected a MkiV SE because of the many software issues I've had with it. It's spent alomst as long at the dealers as it has on my drive at home. After having three software updates the cruise control (not adaptive) stopped working. The speed limiter still worked but I could not set CC, I could highlight it, but no mater what I, or the dealer did, could we select it. They re-installed some software and it started working again. However despite all the dealer visits I still get the well known 'Loading driver profile' lock up every now and again. I've had enough of having to pull over to the side of the road to re-boot the infotainment screen just so I can adjust the cabin temperature so i've rejected the car.

Yes, through the lease company who forwarded my request to the fifinance company.

It's actually the cheapest Tesla they make. A Car that most people think costs more than it actually does but it costs less than an Octavia VRs 1.4 estate. And that's BEFORE you add any extras, even paint colour. Anyway, when I made that coment I thought the VW ID3 was capable of OTA updates and that car appears to share the same infotainment system with another car in the VAG group, the SEAT Leon, hence I 'thought' that OTA updates were now common throughout the VAG group. I've since learnt that's not the case at all.

Link please.

Let's be clear about this, I know nothing but like you, I've had my car a very short time (two weeks in my case) and I've yet to drive my car in the dark but what I can add to this thread is that my car has already been back to the dealers to have three software updates which 'should' have been applided to the car before I recieved it. In total it's bee nin the dealers three days out of thise two weeks but it has been inproved over the car that I recieved. As the other reply said, I'd call the dealer to see if anything has been missed. For me, I think I'd better drive my car in the dark to see if I have a similar issue. It's 2021. For the life of me I can't understand why the car can't update itself 'over the air'. I know my primary car can.

Great idea guys. Thanks.