A month & 1500km with my Skoda Slavia 1.5 TSI: How its going so far

The Lava Blue colour is a head turner for sure. I find a lot of random people on the street admiring it.

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1500 kms update (Exactly a month today post taking the delivery)

So even after carefully switching off the idle start-stop, the anti theft alarm used to go off at random times. The most embarrassing ones were at 12.30 am in the night and one was at a hospital parking.

Booked a mid week appointment with Dr Auto Skoda service centre one fine day early morning and reached the service centre at 4-4.15 pm. They mentioned that they had a similar complaint in a one month old Slavia too and the problem was attributed to the Skoda Connect Jio Dongle. Skoda technical team has been informed and they will release a software patch in a month's time. I was asked to drop the car there that day as it was already 4.30 pm. I was informed that they will run software diagnostics the next day and will upload the updates if any. There were mixed feelings about dropping a 25 day old car there at the service centre, but was relieved that tonight I won't be waking up with some random alarm at midnight.

Next day in the 2nd half, I got a call from the service advisor informing that the culprit was indeed the dongle and for the time being they have removed it and kept it in the glove box, till they receive an update about it from the Skoda technical team. It would probably take a month and I will be called in January tentatively to upload the updated and fix the dongle. Picked up the car the same day in the evening.

It's been the 3rd day today and thankfully there has not been a single incident of the anti theft alarm going off at any random time.

Apart from the above issue, the car performs flawlessly . No issues related to rattling till now (hope it remains this way). I have started using the AC with both frontal flow and footwell flow mode. This way the cabin cools much better as compared to the standard mode. I am not unhappy with the ac performance that I have experienced in the last 1 month.

The Lava Blue colour is a head turner for sure. I find a lot of random people on the street admiring it. The car dashcam caught a guy stopping and clicking pictures of the car.

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