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Hello fellow Skodians. I hought I would start this thread, as there seems to be quite a few either taken ownership, placed orders or just thinking about getting the best ev out there.
So, any questions that someone may be able to answer, any good or bad dealings with dealers, specs wanted or received, perhaps someone could help others in their quest
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Yes a battery pack is made from cells and modules but it’s also terminology used to describe anything generally that plugs in in a car. Could be an actual battery module could be an electronic module in relation to the battery until more info comes out no one will know. If it were a problem affecting one module I’d have expected it to affect more than one in each car seeing as the pack is made up of many of them logic suggests if it’s affecting numerous cars it’d be numerous or all the battery modules in the pack.
It’ll be interesting to find put what it is and why.
Yes a battery pack is made from cells and modules but it’s also terminology used to describe anything generally that plugs in in a car. Could be an actual battery module could be an electronic module in relation to the battery until more info comes out no one will know. If it were a problem affecting one module I’d have expected it to affect more than one in each car seeing as the pack is made up of many of them logic suggests if it’s affecting numerous cars it’d be numerous or all the battery modules in the pack. It’ll be interesting to find put what it is and why.
Can remember specific modules failing in the Enyak 80 and the Id4… and module 9 is one that comes to mind. Depending on the Kwh there is 7,9 or 12 modules per pack 12s2p and 8s3p configeration for the lagest battery pack pack and each module contains 24 cells.
But, yes your correct, it culd be any module but, if it was anything else, I’d have expected them to said control module rather than specifically staing what they did.
Heres a module from the 80x selling on ebay and probally fauty for £1k lol.
Car goes fine in snow up steep hills used the traction mode coming down i just used motor regen ( paddle 1v) .
Just had call from the garage someone’s cancelled their order for the exact same spec and colour I’d ordered so looking to pick it up next Wednesday so that was unexpected!
Yes a battery pack is made from cells and modules but it’s also terminology used to describe anything generally that plugs in in a car. Could be an actual battery module could be an electronic module in relation to the battery until more info comes out no one will know. If it were a problem affecting one module I’d have expected it to affect more than one in each car seeing as the pack is made up of many of them logic suggests if it’s affecting numerous cars it’d be numerous or all the battery modules in the pack. It’ll be interesting to find put what it is and why.
Can remember specific modules failing in the Enyak 80 and the Id4… and module 9 is one that comes to mind. Depending on the Kwh there is 7,9 or 12 modules per pack 12s2p and 8s3p configeration for the lagest battery pack pack and each module contains 24 cells. But, yes your correct, it culd be any module but, if it was anything else, I’d have expected them to said control module rather than specifically staing what they did. Heres a module from the 80x selling on ebay and probally fauty for £1k lol.
Probably fixable even if faulty unless the bms locks it out or dump all the bms and use your own but potentially replace some cells or break the module down be great for home energy storage. That’s what Skoda is looking to recycle batteries into among other things. You can do some very cool stuff with eV batteries. There’s a YouTuber with a tesla 3 battery pack nailed to his house.
Surprised no ones thought of buying a shagged pack and swapping it out on a lease car there’s a huge opportunity for scamming right there. Or maybe they have already….
Speaking of batteries 🙁
Looks like my 12v battery is useless, for the last couple of weeks the App has been almost completely unuseable giving the usual “Battery protection” error message. Also noticed that when it does this the auto door locking/unlocking stops working as well as the door sensors so have to use the key fob.
Couldn’t pre-heat the car this morning so just went out and it’s doing it again (did it 3 times when we parked up during last nights shopping trip with my son) this time I checked the 12v battery, it’s reading 11.85v 🙁
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Speaking of batteries 🙁 Looks like my 12v battery is useless, for the last couple of weeks the App has been almost completely unuseable giving the usual “Battery protection” error message. Also noticed that when it does this the auto door locking/unlocking stops working as well as the door sensors so have to use the key fob. Couldn’t pre-heat the car this morning so just went out and it’s doing it again (did it 3 times when we parked up during last nights shopping trip with my son) this time I checked the 12v battery, it’s reading 11.85v 🙁
Our last Octavia had issue with the 12v battery from day 1, RAC replaced it after 2 months, the guy said it was a crap battery with not enough power for the car. 🤔
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I used to have this problem terribly with a Chrysler Grand Voyager, they use relays to switch everything and they’d fail, get stuck and typical American car build quality things would break and not go to sleep. In short (no pun intended lol) the battery was forever draining. I tried numerous new batteries, cutting the try so I could fit a much bigger battery in, pulling the fuse for the built in amp all sorts and it still happened. What solved it in the end was a good lithium 12v car battery also weighed about a fraction of a normal lead acid battery.
Speaking of I really don’t know why they still insist on a 12v battery designed in the 1850s. There’s no technical need for a 12v system you could easily set the car up to use whatever voltage you wanted, on top the car could still output 12v via DC to DC conversion. You could have a car with EV battery and you could tap off 12v directly from the main battery bypassing the contactors and use that to start the car. You’d knock several kg off the weight of the car and remove the biggest failure point for all EVs car manufacturers are still designing cars with the 20th century mindset in this regard and it’s a real shame the 12v system caused me no end of grief on my MG ZS at one point and I fully expect it to happen again to the Enyaq at some point.
Have to wonder at the quality of modern car batteries too they seem to get less and less reliable at one point you could buy them with stupid warranty now you’re lucky to get 3 years from them and they fail earlier too. Can’t help but think the accountants have gotten to the bill of materials for these like they have with all other car parts
Ordered an Enyaq back in June, 210kW 85x Sportline Plus 82kWh 4×4 in the colour Arctic Silver. I was told back then to expect delivery in about six months. As I have not had any sort of communication since time of ordering I rang the dealer for an update on Friday last week. They got back to me today and told me there was a problem with my order. The colour Arctic Silver has been deleted and is now not available ! I am quite disappointed that they had not contacted me to inform me that my order was on hold awaiting a colour change. If I had not contacted them, when would I have been informed. They subsequently said that I could pick another colour and continue waiting for an undisclosed period of time or they could supply me the exact same as my order but in black from a car they had just received two days ago which was now canceled. I am not a fan of black cars having had three before as they look a million dollars when clean but very difficult to keep that way . Anyhow I have taken the car and take delivery next Tuesday.
I found out in the last few days of cold weather that the heated steering wheel has 3 levels of heating……Nice.
Yup same as the seats. You can also turn it off from level 3 by holding the button down in case anyone hadn’t noticed
Remote heated wheel and seat activation.
I might be teaching grandma to suck eggs here but I just noticed in the My Skoda app if you open the target temp section then tap the 3 dots top right you can set it to put the heated steering wheel and seats on too so as well as warm air you can have toasty hands and buns too.
Remote heated wheel and seat activation. I might be teaching grandma to suck eggs here but I just noticed in the My Skoda app if you open the target temp section then tap the 3 dots top right you can set it to put the heated steering wheel and seats on too so as well as warm air you can have toasty hands and buns too.
I used the app interior heating thingy today for 10 mins as i still had ice on the screen late afternoon very handy feature to have in a car……and i wondered what those three dots were for so next time i do the pre heat thingy i will engage the seats and steering wheel pre heating too.
Good info @Rich44
My car has thrown up some gremlins today. I cant preheat as the 12v battery is being protected. I also cant activate passanger heated seat. Ive asked “Laura” to do it and she says it’s done but it doesn’t come on. Also the features of touching a door handle to lock has also stopped working. It’s either cold weather related or related to a control module replacement this week. Long story cut short- the cameras didn’t work in the car when new. They diagnosed back then that a control module needed to be changed but then all the cameras worked. The dealer was convinced it still needed the module so they replaced it this week. They said they had to do it as they had the part and wouldn’t stop nagging me to get it done. Now I am having issues but I think it’s one of three things. The Control module replacement, cold weather or the 12v battery….
Other than this I am still really content with the car. Its meeting all my needs and more.
2024 Skoda Enyaq estate- 85x Sportline plus in Race Blue. Extras: Supernova 21 inch wheels, Maxx Pack, Transport Pack, Heat Pump and Pano Sunroof.
Ordered 31/10/23, Delivery 27/3/24Yep, see my post above.
Had a trip Weds morning at 06:30, car failed to pre-heat via Ohme App, tried Skoda App but locked out yet again.
Got in the car at -2c and no seat heating on any seat front or back. Only averaged about 1.8 miles/kWh on the trip up. Drove about 15 miles to Consett to stop at Greggs for bun and hot drink, got back in and seats now working again.
Trip back at +1 to +2c managed 2.6 miles/kWh For a total trip of about 108 miles it used 58% of a fully charged battery and left me with Guess-o-Meter range reading of 106 miles.
Went to put it on charge Weds night and yet again the auto lock/unlock wasn’t working and nor were the door sensors 🙁
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
interesting- we have a similar experience. The dealer has fast tracked my booking and will get the car looked at next week. I’ll report back on what they find!
2024 Skoda Enyaq estate- 85x Sportline plus in Race Blue. Extras: Supernova 21 inch wheels, Maxx Pack, Transport Pack, Heat Pump and Pano Sunroof.
Ordered 31/10/23, Delivery 27/3/24Yep, see my post above. Had a trip Weds morning at 06:30, car failed to pre-heat via Ohme App, tried Skoda App but locked out yet again. Got in the car at -2c and no seat heating on any seat front or back. Only averaged about 1.8 miles/kWh on the trip up. Drove about 15 miles to Consett to stop at Greggs for bun and hot drink, got back in and seats now working again. Trip back at +1 to +2c managed 2.6 miles/kWh For a total trip of about 108 miles it used 58% of a fully charged battery and left me with Guess-o-Meter range reading of 106 miles. Went to put it on charge Weds night and yet again the auto lock/unlock wasn’t working and nor were the door sensors 🙁
I have keyless entry working again. I asked on FB and someone said to check it was activated in the vehicle settings. I didnt know it was in the settings but found it. All was switched on so toggled all keesy settings to off and on again and now its working again. Still no seat heating for passenger though.
2024 Skoda Enyaq estate- 85x Sportline plus in Race Blue. Extras: Supernova 21 inch wheels, Maxx Pack, Transport Pack, Heat Pump and Pano Sunroof.
Ordered 31/10/23, Delivery 27/3/24Ours has been faultless, -2 this morning and covered in ice, pre heated for 20 mins, ice cleared and inside warm. Averaging 2.4kwh in recent weather. Ours is the very latest upgrade collected September. They’ve probably dehydrated all the little Gremlins.
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Ours is three years old and also faultless in all weather. Privately purchased before we were eligible for Motability. The day we picked it up from the dealer it was snowing and freezing and the range was awful… that was a bit of a shock buts it’s been great and we are about to order an 85 on Mobility. I am tempted by the 85X Sports but the range drops a bit.
Do Skoda have Enyaqs in stock if you are not too particular about exact colour etc? I don’t mind waiting a while though either as I’ll sell ours when we get the new one.
The 85x is amazing the range drop isn’t really worth worrying about as you gain the benefit of 4wd and the reduction is pretty small. I love every bit of it. Traction mode in the snow and ice destroys everything in its path, admittedly we haven’t had deep snow yet but the recent cold spell it’s been rock solid.
I’m averaging 3mi/kwh even in this bad weather using the car ready at settings car is warm, seats are hot, steering wheel is hot and the battery is up to temp ready to go.
Today I’ve had 2.9mi/kwh over 60 miles driving at 2.5C.
In the summer I was hitting around 4-4.8 most of the time without trying.
They do get some cancelled customer orders in from time to time if not fussy about trim or colour. I think the wait list has come down now from the 7 months or so I waited.
Looked at my charging stats 21st October to 21st Nov, £28 on Intelligent Octopus at 7p/kwh. Last diesel car was costing me £200 a month when diesel was about £1.20 let alone now.
That’s really odd about the lack of preheating because that’s controlled by the car not the app if you set a deperature time.
If you open the temperature target in the app and tap the 3 dots is the seat heating enabled there?
That’s really odd about the lack of preheating because that’s controlled by the car not the app if you set a deperature time. If you open the temperature target in the app and tap the 3 dots is the seat heating enabled there?
I’ve just checked the app and preheat is now available again. It’s set for heated seats during pre heat.
the car is plugged in awaiting octopus to start its charge tonight so not sure if that has helped.
2024 Skoda Enyaq estate- 85x Sportline plus in Race Blue. Extras: Supernova 21 inch wheels, Maxx Pack, Transport Pack, Heat Pump and Pano Sunroof.
Ordered 31/10/23, Delivery 27/3/24That’s really odd about the lack of preheating because that’s controlled by the car not the app if you set a deperature time. If you open the temperature target in the app and tap the 3 dots is the seat heating enabled there?
Thanks. That is helpful.
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