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hi again on my 2021 polo i have had it happen 4 times know were the sos warning comes up on the dash and then it askes to push the red button to cancel is this a softwere thing ????
do i need to take it to the dealer?
once again thanks for all your help people

If it's still in warranty i'd take it to the dealership

Question. Is the green light on the SOS switch illuminated when this happens, or not?

I had my SOS system (+ internet access) vanish for a couple of weeks a while back. Booked it into the garage for them to have a look and the system came back on its own after a couple of weeks. So just cancelled the garage visit.

Far too much electronics in cars these days (think I keep on saying this ).

hi the green light goes out when this happens ,as you say far to mutch to go wrong on these cars now

MikeDO wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 9:21 pm

Far too much electronics in cars these days (think I keep on saying this ).

agree entirely

I said similar to this when cameras went from film to digital.. now you don't have to take a photo.. you can let the camera (computer) focus and even compose/manipulate.

And now Tesla's (other manufacturers to) are killing people who trust the automation too much.

Cameras had a film in NO WAY , next you will be telling me you had to wait 3 weeks to see the pictures

Honest.. I read in the News of the World!

@madmark - Not sure if it’s a software issue but there’ve been numerous instances reported on various forums of the SOS warning being triggered in current model VAG cars (not just VW’s) going back a couple of years or longer; try a Google search on ‘VW false SOS warnings’ and you’ll get multiple results returned for the search.

In view of the length of time this has been an issue, VW may have developed a fix by now so it’s probably worth speaking to your dealer.

spoke to the dealer and she said they are doing a few cars with this problem and they havnt got the parts

madmark wrote: Thu May 18, 2023 4:02 pm spoke to the dealer and she said they are doing a few cars with this problem and they havnt got the parts

Hi. Out of interest. Did they give you any indication what "parts" were involved?

hi sorry they didnt mate

I've just got this issue. It's paired with two other issues:
1. sign recognition system fault
2. it stopped synchronizing car data with volkswagen app.
I spoke to my dealer, they said there are some models which are under recalls for SOS system issues, but not the Polo. Scheduled a visit in 2 weeks. The car has only 1500 miles on it...