Wrong car
My skoda app gets connected to random cars and shows all details. Would this be the same for my car being connected to someone elses app?
Nice car, shame about the tech
It’s not so much the app, but the entire Skoda comms and marketing piece. Hugely confusing. Dozens of options advertised, but no real way of knowing if a particular feature is available for a particular car. One has to input the car’s vin number to see the owners’ manual, but then the owners’ manual includes every single option, most of which are not applicable to the car. This app advertises lots of features, most of which will/are unavailable depending on … location? car trim? the availability of the Skoda servers? For example, I can see there’s a weather app. I cannot install it into my car because … no idea … wrong country? Wrong week? I’m a primary user on the car and have jumped through all the other hoops, but not got anywhere nearer to finding a definitive answer. Nice car, nearly new, the stuff I have managed to connect to is great, but the information about available features is bloated and confusing.
Update: And all Škoda ‘support’ can do is send me the same link to the same ‘availability’ page which shows features which do not show in my car or on this poor quality app. Absolutely useless. The weather app is nowhere to be found, half of the remote features are missing. I had already emailed support, who sent me the exact same link to the ‘availability’. I already knew what is advertised as available, why else would I be reaching out? QED.
I just checked again using my VIN and also browsing for the car and model. Both the ‘availability’ checker and the owners manual show EXACTLY the same available features whether the vin is entered or not. Embarrassingly bad logic from the IT geniuses at Škoda, or just lazy and faulty implementation?
Either way my review stands.
I contacted support who, by looking at my VIN, could tell me that the features advertised on the app, on the Skoda website, and in the owners manual, are not in fact available for my car. Even though I entered the VIN on the app, on the website and in the manual, and all advertised features which in my case I have not got. Shoddy implementation, and consequent misadvertising.
Update: And all Škoda ‘support’ can do is send me the same link to the same ‘availability’ page which shows features which do not show in my car or on this poor quality app. Absolutely useless. The weather app is nowhere to be found, half of the remote features are missing. I had already emailed support, who sent me the exact same link to the ‘availability’. I already knew what is advertised as available, why else would I be reaching out? QED.
I just checked again using my VIN and also browsing for the car and model. Both the ‘availability’ checker and the owners manual show EXACTLY the same available features whether the vin is entered or not. Embarrassingly bad logic from the IT geniuses at Škoda, or just lazy and faulty implementation?
Either way my review stands.
I contacted support who, by looking at my VIN, could tell me that the features advertised on the app, on the Skoda website, and in the owners manual, are not in fact available for my car. Even though I entered the VIN on the app, on the website and in the manual, and all advertised features which in my case I have not got. Shoddy implementation, and consequent misadvertising.
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Nice car, shame about the tech
It’s not so much the app, but the entire Skoda comms and marketing piece. Hugely confusing. Dozens of options advertised, but no real way of knowing if a particular feature is available for a particular car. One has to input the car’s vin number to see the owners’ manual, but then the owners’ manual includes every single option, most of which are not applicable to the car. This app advertises lots of features, most of which will/are unavailable depending on … location? car trim? the availability of the Skoda servers? For example, I can see there’s a weather app. I cannot install it into my car because … no idea … wrong country? Wrong week? I’m a primary user on the car and have jumped through all the other hoops, but not got anywhere nearer to finding a definitive answer. Nice car, nearly new, the stuff I have managed to connect to is great, but the information about available features is bloated and confusing.
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Good app
One of the better car apps I’ve used
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I find app easy to use but especially like function for finding car and also ability to check its locked and windows closed.
