Wow, I thought the day would never come; I've finally received the first update since my 206 sedan which was built on 1st Oct, 2015, an MY2016, delivered in May 2016 by the woeful former Skoda dealership, Trivet in Parramatta.
I've spent almost a year ringing & emailing Skoda customer dis-service in Australia & wrote to Skoda HQ in Czech Republic several months ago as I was getting nowhere here. Until yesterday, my VIN remained unrecognized by Skoda's App. I cannot be sure which of my approaches has triggered it into action but it works now, albeit the Digital Service Record is incomplete missing all service by Trivet & the first by Thompson Skoda, only displaying one warranty service. This confirms to me, advice given by Thompson Skoda service that I needed to chase Skoda Australia to find out why my VIN always returned a No Updates Available or Not Found in Database response. I have to suspect this all goes back to the disorganized chaos at the time of purchase from Trivet.
A post in the Octavia Forum caused me to again try Skoda's online Update facility where for the first time my VIN triggered a New Update Available I'm still on Optus fibre cable here, with broadband download measured at between 30-40Mb/sec, but the download still took 26hrs 55sec! Size being 22.7Gb. The amusing part for me is, this is a zip file which un-zips to 23.55Gb. Why did they even bother!!!! I gather the update server in Prague must be akin to a Commodore 64 on dial-up! Contrast that with a TomTom update done in 5 minutes, Skoda.
SD card, a 256Gb class 10 inserted into the Columbus system was not recognized initially but after a number of retries, recognized the New Update but kept reporting "No Data Found" . After thumping re-try about 7-8 times, update started. It took 50 minutes to successfully complete.
I suppose the point of this long story is.... don't give up. If I can get my Skoda VIN recognized, download the world of maps & get it installed successfully, winning next week's Powerball lotto ought to be a dawdle.
I've spent almost a year ringing & emailing Skoda customer dis-service in Australia & wrote to Skoda HQ in Czech Republic several months ago as I was getting nowhere here. Until yesterday, my VIN remained unrecognized by Skoda's App. I cannot be sure which of my approaches has triggered it into action but it works now, albeit the Digital Service Record is incomplete missing all service by Trivet & the first by Thompson Skoda, only displaying one warranty service. This confirms to me, advice given by Thompson Skoda service that I needed to chase Skoda Australia to find out why my VIN always returned a No Updates Available or Not Found in Database response. I have to suspect this all goes back to the disorganized chaos at the time of purchase from Trivet.
A post in the Octavia Forum caused me to again try Skoda's online Update facility where for the first time my VIN triggered a New Update Available I'm still on Optus fibre cable here, with broadband download measured at between 30-40Mb/sec, but the download still took 26hrs 55sec! Size being 22.7Gb. The amusing part for me is, this is a zip file which un-zips to 23.55Gb. Why did they even bother!!!! I gather the update server in Prague must be akin to a Commodore 64 on dial-up! Contrast that with a TomTom update done in 5 minutes, Skoda.
SD card, a 256Gb class 10 inserted into the Columbus system was not recognized initially but after a number of retries, recognized the New Update but kept reporting "No Data Found" . After thumping re-try about 7-8 times, update started. It took 50 minutes to successfully complete.
I suppose the point of this long story is.... don't give up. If I can get my Skoda VIN recognized, download the world of maps & get it installed successfully, winning next week's Powerball lotto ought to be a dawdle.
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