Traffic Jam Assist

[cyberkank]

Did Skoda supply you with a recall notice for this. Mine and Enobar's is doing the same thing as yours?

No, they didn't. Bit dissapointed with that. I had to talk to Skoda's dealer technician and he had no clue of TJA feature until I pointed it out in the brochure and then he had to call Skoda Australia to find out what is going on.
Then I got a phone call from the dealer's technician the next day and said that Skoda Australia confirmed there's a fault with the current software where TJA is not working. So thats why he asked me to take the car in for a software update and also there's an active recall regarding rear trim that needs fixing.

I will suggest anyone with TJA, if it is not working (i.e. not having green light under 65km/h while ACC is active) to contact their dealer and explain to them. Skoda probably wants to keep it "hush hush" until your next service where they miraculously "fix" the issue without you knowing there was one in the first place to keep their reputation in tack.

[Enobar]

Very interesting.... I have my car booked into the dealer for some rattle resolution in a week so I'll have them look at this

[Enobar]

Phoned my dealership today, they confirmed the 2 recalls and that it will be fixed for me next Monday. Yay! New feature coming to my car! Lol.

[Andysuew]

Phoned my dealership today, they confirmed the 2 recalls and that it will be fixed for me next Monday. Yay! New feature coming to my car! Lol.

Let us know how you go. Don't forget to take photo of software before & after to confirm update����

[bego9]

@Enobar Please let us know the 2 recalls number or code. Thanks.

[cyberkank]

Phoned my dealership today, they confirmed the 2 recalls and that it will be fixed for me next Monday. Yay! New feature coming to my car! Lol.

Shouldn't the recall process be "Them calling us" not us calling them. Anyhow, good that it is getting sorted soon. My one is going in Monday, will test out this new "traffic jam" feature.

[cyberkank]

My car just got updated with the Traffic Jam software. It is totally awesome, the lane keeping is a lot more "active" than before, it will provide a lot more guidance if you activate both ACC and Lane Keeping Assist. Nearly to the point of autonomous driving. I drove about 50km of highway driving in peak hour traffic with little or no intervention. Very impressed with the feature.
Once ACC & Lane Keeping Assist is activated. The Lane keeping assist icon should stay green regardless of speed (providing it can detect lanes).

[Enobar]

Sounds great. I suspect that the problem is actually that our cars were specced wrong for Australia. If you look at overseas, they have 'Lane Assist' and 'Active Lane Assist with Traffic Jam Assist'. I think that our cars left the factory specced as plain old Lane Assist. I think this 'software update' may be enabling the proper settings. Just a hunch though... My car had a sleep over at the dealer last night as they wanted more time to fix the rattles that are torturing me - I gladly agreed since I feel they're actually putting real effort into it instead of fobbing me off.

[bego9]

@cyber what did you say to the dealer to get it fix? Is there any specific update that I need to mention to the service dealer to get it up to date? Thanks

[blueSup]

@cyberkank - did you take pictures of the before and after software versions from the Infotainment? If not, what are the version numbers now?

[Enobar]

@cyber what did you say to the dealer to get it fix? Is there any specific update that I need to mention to the service dealer to get it up to date? Thanks

I just got mine done - I rang the dealer and told him that there were 2 recalls applicable to the car and if they weren't sure they could contact Skoda Australia - they told me they were aware of them. One is for the Traffic Jam Assist, one for something to do with the tail gate trim - I am unsure what it was.

I believe that my suspicions were correct - our cars were incorrectly specced with regular lane assist instead of adaptive lane assist and this recall has fixed it. I have a new option in my Drivers Assistance menu as you can see from the photo which is 'Adaptive Lane Guidance'. I swear it was not there before. Now when I have it engaged, there are 2 yellow lines either side of the roadway in the maxidot display. The lane assist is now far less bouncing from one line to the other within the lane like a drunk driver and properly active in tracking the car down the centre. Also at speeds under 60kph, the lane assist will activate - provided the car is on cruise control - it remains off when you are operating the go faster pedal yourself. The lane assist light also goes green under 60 with cruise active.

If you haven't booked your car into a dealer yet get onto it because its definitely worth while. Also, in case we have any active members of the Skoda forum who like to spend their work days dressed in Blue, I would like to point out that the below photo was taken by my (rather disinterested) passenger who obediently took photos of in spite of his protests that 'no one will really be interested in your dash instruments surely'. So please, vote your interest below so that I can show him repeated posts with my commentary 'i told you so'. Apologies that they are sideways/upside down... not sure why they've done that.

[bego9]

@Enobar
Thanks for the info and photos. I vote for you it will help us to show it to the dealer
I read that Adaptive lane guidance in the manual and yes, I didn't have that one and guessing that is related to this traffic jam assist.
I am going to send email to service dealer to request this update provided they know about this recall.

Did you ask about the chirp acoustic confirmation when lock/unlock?

[Ozsko]

@Enobar


Did you ask about the chirp acoustic confirmation when lock/unlock?

I seem to vaguely remember that when the chirp thing began to appear the law was changed to outlaw it. I may be wrong there but that is my memory because every burglar alarm used to do it.

[cyberkank]

@cyber what did you say to the dealer to get it fix? Is there any specific update that I need to mention to the service dealer to get it up to date? Thanks

I just told them that the "Traffic Jam Assist" did not work according to what it was described in the manual. The dealer had no clue at the start and thought I was talking about the Lane keeping assist. But I showed him in teh manual regarding the Traffic Jam Assist function. but then they contacted Skoda Australia and confirmed that it is a "recall" for Australia car.
There is also another recall that is currently active for the superb. Which involves removing a phone reception in the trunk which doesn't comply with Australian regulation.
The dealer fixed the two issues in 1 day.

[cyberkank]

I just got mine done - I rang the dealer and told him that there were 2 recalls applicable to the car and if they weren't sure they could contact Skoda Australia - they told me they were aware of them. One is for the Traffic Jam Assist, one for something to do with the tail gate trim - I am unsure what it was.

I believe that my suspicions were correct - our cars were incorrectly specced with regular lane assist instead of adaptive lane assist and this recall has fixed it. I have a new option in my Drivers Assistance menu as you can see from the photo which is 'Adaptive Lane Guidance'. I swear it was not there before. Now when I have it engaged, there are 2 yellow lines either side of the roadway in the maxidot display. The lane assist is now far less bouncing from one line to the other within the lane like a drunk driver and properly active in tracking the car down the centre. Also at speeds under 60kph, the lane assist will activate - provided the car is on cruise control - it remains off when you are operating the go faster pedal yourself. The lane assist light also goes green under 60 with cruise active.

If you haven't booked your car into a dealer yet get onto it because its definitely worth while. Also, in case we have any active members of the Skoda forum who like to spend their work days dressed in Blue, I would like to point out that the below photo was taken by my (rather disinterested) passenger who obediently took photos of in spite of his protests that 'no one will really be interested in your dash instruments surely'. So please, vote your interest below so that I can show him repeated posts with my commentary 'i told you so'. Apologies that they are sideways/upside down... not sure why they've done that.

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Yep, spot on. I've been looking up VW forums and only "Adaptive Lane Guidance" gives you Traffic Jam Assist.
Based on the information I got from the Tiguan forum, apparently it is only specific hardware that can do the "Lane Guidance". The Tiguan cannot do it due to the AUS car do not have the hardware to do the "Lane Guidance", so they are stuck with just Lane keeping assist.