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Interesting. The setup menu does not have that feature on a 2023 Sportline, nor is there any reference to it in the owners' manual.

I have the opposite issue. The Yeti would close its sunroof if the car was left parked with the roof open and it began to rain. It seems the Karoq (Sportline) does not. Or is there a setting I have missed?

An intermittenty sticking thermostat would have been first on my list of suspects. As you are soon getting that changed, I'd wait and see the outcome.

All Android phones have supported FLAC since Android 3.1 in 2011. iPhones have supported FLAC since iOS 11 in 2017. As has been said, you need an app.

So it's OK for you to patronise me ('Calm down, Carlos Fandango'), but you don't like getting it back. Now we know.

Very true. Especially not in a Honda Jazz.

Fair enough. People have different priorities. For me, 215 width leaves the car under-tyred and lacking in lateral grip, while 60-profile sidewalls degrade the steering response, which is not the greatest anyway. Your choice is reasonable, but it is not without compromise.

Skoda sells 6Jx16" ET45 alloy wheels for the Karoq, in styles called Nanuq and Castor, so that wheel size is guaranteed to fit. You are proposing slightly wider rims, 6.5J, but as Skoda fits the Karoq with rims up to 8J, I guess that small increase in width will not be a problem. ETRTO-approved rim widths for your proposed 215/60 x16 tyres range from 6.0 through 6.5 to 7.0, so the tyres are suitable for the rims. As for those tyres, 215/60 x 16 compared to your current 225/40 x19, you may already have worked out that the difference in rolling circumference is negligible, a matter of 2 revs per km. However, if you were to fit one of the latest-generation all-season tyres to your 19-inch wheels, you might be well pleased with the improvement in ride, as I was. (Particuarly if you are getting rid of the Turanza T005 summer tyres, which are terrible.) I and others have discussed it on other threads, as Ootohere says.

89 mm, 107 mm, and 99 mm. You can look up all the tyre dimensions here: https://tiresize.com/tyre-size-calculator/

My 245/40 19s have clearance to spare, but my guess is that 245/45s could be close to, or over, the limit at the inner edge of the rear tyres unless you want to start butchering the wheel arch liners. But this is merely a guess.

That's correct. The difference is 6.1%. The tyres should fit. The speedo will under-read by 4.3 mph at 70 mph. But as the speedo on my Sportline over-reads by 3 mph at 70 mph, the net effect will be a speedo that under-reads by around 1 mph at that speed. An under-read is illegal, at least in the UK, but nobody is ever going to check, nor prosecute for such a trivial error, and in any case it will disappear as soon as the tyres wear down a bit. One would just have to remember not to rely on an over-reading speedo when approaching a speed camera.

His current tyres are not 225x45 19".

In London alone, more than 100 Skodas were stolen in the year from May 2022 to May 2023.

If the system is working correctly, you should be protected when walking across a car park. That is because, as I understand it, the Kessy system, and those from some other manufacturers, incorporate a time-of-flight signal as part of the communication between key and car, just as GPS does: time of flight determines distance accurately. So the reason touchless unlocking stops working when one is more than a few feet from the car is not because the signal is getting weak but because the car knows for sure the distance between it and the key (the real key, not the thief's device). That renders man-in-the-middle attacks useless -- unless someone invents a way to circumvent it.

Yes, that procedure disables Kessy. But: (a) you have to remember to do it; (b) you have to assume the system is working correctly, i.e. that the button-press on the key followed by the touch on the handle really has disabled Kessy; (c) you have to assume thieves have not (yet) developed a way to overcome that. Some will conclude that is quite secure enough. Others will be sceptical and prefer to add their own layer of security with a metal shield to block the radio signal. It might be better to make sure keys are not kept on a hall table overnight, or anywhere else they can be easily found after a front door is breached.

A small tin with a well-fitting lid works perfectly for me and fits in my pocket if need be.

You can look at Settings - System Information - Update Software to see whether any update is ready for you. But if it isn't, all you can do is wait. And when it is your turn, you'll be notified anyway. To be fair, this is no worse as an approach than it is with most mobile phone OS updates. What makes it annoying is that Skoda seems to have cheaped out on renting bandwidth so that some people have to wait a very long time for their turn to update.

The fix for Android Auto that works for most people is when the infotainment system software updates itself to version 0330. As updates happen over the air, the dealers don't get involved if they can help it, and many of them don't understand the issue. My wife's car spent an entire week saying 'Software update in progress' and there was nothing I could do to control that. When the update finally completed, Android Auto worked properly for the very first time. The whole update system is really badly implemented, but you can hope things will resolve at some point. In fact, hope is all you can do, By the way, Skoda absolves itself of all responsibility by saying in all the brochures and other publicity for many months that Apple Carplay works wirelessly but Android Auto works wired. If you were to complain to Skoda UK I think you'd be told you are asking for a feature that was not offered. Neverthless they have been working, belatedly, to fix it. Connecting via cable should get you going while you wait,

The problem and its solutions have been discussed on a 2-page thread here:

You are well aware of the pros and cons of each car. When I come across that situation, I resolve it by waiting for another car to come up that has fewer compromises. And I travel to get it if necessary, a long way sometimes.

Settings > System information

Good luck with that. The usual complaint is that Android Auto constantly disconnects, but some people have trouble with Carplay too. First thing is to make sure the infotainment system software has updated to 0330. That may or may not help, but there's no point in trying any other fixes until that is done. Mind you, mine has been saying 'Software update in progress' for an entire week now. Speaking as one who developed and published successful software for 20 years, I can say the software on these systems is disgraceful, from small things such as a failure to indicate exactly what is happening and buttons that do nothing when you press them, to big ones such as stuck updates.

Thanks

Would you be kind enough to post the version number following the software update? 0330, perhaps? Thanks.

I too have a 2023 Karoq 1.5 TSI Sportline. I live on the edge of a city. Yesterday evening I drove the 6 miles into the city centre and the 6 back again. This was from a cold start in cold weather, with light traffic, a few stops, and some parking manoeuvres. Consumption on the round trip was 42 mpg. If I was getting late teens and low 20s I'd be as puzzled as you are.