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Yeah, I used it at the highest (level 3) setting from the start.

6. Heated steering wheel: another thing I noticed was that when I turned on the steering wheel + seat heating to the highest degree upon starting the car, the seats started heating almost immediately. Steering wheel, on the other hand, only became warm after like 5 mins or so… Is this normal?

If you zoom in the above photo, you can see something in the triangle – presumably the cam? The car has Matrix LED, so is it the same camera then?

Hm, and another question that occurred to me: 5. Traffic Jam Assist: this car comes with ACC but not with TJA as far as I can see. Can ACC be used in traffic as "Stop and Go" or do you need Traffic Jam Assist for that?

Hm, I have a pic (here is a cropped version)... are you able to tell whether that is a camera or not?

Oh, and another thing: 4. Auto Hold: I noticed the car would keep crawling at the stoplight. Then I noticed that Auto Hold was not on, so I pressed the button to activate it. Do you actually have to activate it on each restart of the engine?

Hi, I'm considering getting a used mid-2022 facelifted Karoq 1.5 TSI DSG with cca. 25k mi on the clock for about 21k £ as converted from €. Today I test-drove it and quite liked it; it's a Style trim if I'm not mistaken (I'm in EU) with silver roof racks and Matrix LED, heated seats/steering wheel, ACC, front/back parking sensors, reverse camera, etc. - do you think that's a reasonable price for the car? There are a few things that bothered me a bit, though, and would like to ask for your advice. 1. The car is equipped with ACC and Front Assist, but disappointingly no Lane Assist. I expected Lane Assist to have been standard by 2022?! Is it possible to somehow enable it via vcds or something after the warranty period is over? (I know there's a fair share of people who dislike LA and are quick to turn it off, but somehow I was hoping to enjoy a quasi "semi"-autonomous drive by having ACC with LA...). Also, no traffic sign recognition fitted to this car. 2. Virtual Cockpit doesn't seem to be completely centered in between the steering wheel. It's like the right side of the wheel kind of covers part of the view of the fuel gauge. See the attached picture but with a caveat that the pic was taken from an angle so it looks much worse than in reality. I would've hoped the whole Virtual Cockpit would be exactly inside the steering wheel gap. Is this by design? (I managed to mitigate the problem somewhat by raising the steering wheel height a bit.) 3. Part of the insulation under the bonnet seems to have been eaten by a rodent (see attached photo). Should I be concerned that there has also been some damage done to the wiring where the eye can't see? It makes me anxious. See also the picture of the whole under-the-bonnet view. Thanks in advance for your advice.

Wow, that was super helpful, thank you! I'll probably go on a test drive of a used 2022 Karoq i've been considering (the above pics I posted are just random boot photos I found online - I haven't seen the boot of the Karoq in question yet) to decide whether or not to purchase it. If I indeed go ahead with the purchase, I'll post the picture of the boot here for further consideration to double-check with you / anyone else before ordering the space saver spare wheel kit.

Hm, so if I were to buy the space saver spare wheel kit (is this it?) it would raise the floor all the way up to here (see red arrows)?

Perhaps, yes… By the way, why do models without the variable boot floor have this stupid raised lip below the back seats (red arrow)? Doesn’t this lip reduce the usable boot floor length by several inches?? They should have removed it when the car is specced without the variable boot floor… Could someone please measure the length of the boot floor as per the green arrow on the below pic? Thanks

Vehicle looks well preserved and has done 2 regular maintenance service already, so from the condition standpoint it doesn't seem to be problematic. I'm worried about long-term resale value. If it will be potentially much more difficult to sell it eventually being a 3rd owner.

I'm facing a huge dilemma though: the above-mentioned Karoq I'm eyeing has cca. 20k miles on the clock, but it's already from the 2nd owner (the latter, as I was told, bought it in order to resell it). Which means I'd be the 3rd owner. I'm worried that this would reduce its resale value significantly and would make it much more difficult to sell in 5-7 (or if I'm lucky 10) years. Thoughts?

Hi, To those owners who don’t have a variable boot floor, did you manage to find a way how to reduce the boot loading lip somehow? Or it doesn’t bother you? I’m considering buying a used Karoq but the one I’m eyeing comes without a variable boot floor, which is a bit disappointing. I’m trying to find out if there are any reasonable solutions to fix that afterwards.

Thanks everyone for your replies! I think I figured it out in the meantime: as @MrAdamwoodpointed out, Matrix headlights are the ones where the daytime LED strip is split into 2 parts, while standard LED are the ones where daytime LED is a single strip. So from both @pinkpanther and @OldKaroq’s pictures you can clearly see that they have a non-split/single strip of the daily LED, which is indicative of the non-Matrix version. If you take a look at my initial post, the daytime LED strip is split, so apparently those are indeed Matrix.

Hmm, are you sure it looks like the SE-L? Would you mind posting a pic of your SE-L lights? I found this: https://www.skoda.tj/models/newkaroq/newkaroq/skoda-karoq-led-lights And as far as I can see the lights in the photos from my initial post look more like the ones on the orange Karoq from the link, don't they?