JollyGardener

I have a May 2022 facelift 1.0 SE L manual. There's no cover on mine.

Only the adaptive cruise control has a separate stalk, the cruise control fitted as standard uses small switches on the indicator stalk. There is a switch on the top of the indicator stalk which is moved to the left to switch th cruise control on. On the end of the indicator stalk is a rocker switch which reads RES+ at the top and SET- at the bottom. Once you are driving at the speed you want to maintain press the lower edge of the rocker switch marked SET- The speedometer symbol at the bottom of the instrument display will turn green and the car will maintain a constant speed. You can accelerate if necessary and when you take your foot of the pedal the car will slow to the set speed. If you press the brake pedal the set speed is cancelled. The speedometer symbol then turns white. Alternatively moving the switch on the top of the indicator stalk to the right against spring pressure cancels the set speed (moving the switch all the way to the right turns of the cruise control altogether. To resume the set speed, press the upper edge of the rocker switch marked RES+ and the car will accelerate to the previously set speed. Pressing SET- will set the current speed as the new set speed. When the cruise control is engaged (green speedometer symbol lit) pressing RES+ increases the set speed and SET- decreases the set speed. On early cars the speed limiter was a press button under the indicator stalk. Later ones, including mine, have the limiter buried in the driver assist menu accessed by a button on the right hand side of the steering wheel.

Ditto! I changed my 2018 1.0 SEL DSG for a facelift 1.0 SEL in May. I chose the manual because I really didn't get on with the DSG gearbox. From memory I paid £23,500 for my old car when it was new in May 2018, and was offered £21,000 part exchange in May 2022. With the £1500 deposit contribution for the PCP agreement (which I settled before the first payment was made) the deprciation over 4 years was effectively nil. An offer I just couldn't refuse.

If you were ordering a new Karoq, there are two spare wheel sizes that can be specified as an option. The first is a "Steel space-saving spare wheel 125/70 R18", the second is a "Temporary steel space saver wheel 215/60 R16". The only restriction is that the wider tyre cannot be ordered with the 4x4, varioflex seats makes no difference. I ordered an SE L (with varioflex seats) with the 215/60 R16 spare wheel, which fits under the boot floor perfectly. The wheels on the car have Michelin Primacy 3 215/50 R18 tyres fitted and the spare is a Giti Premium PX1 215/60 R16. A difference of 8mm in diameter.

The lever won't move out of neutral without the footbrake pressed. It's when the footbrake is released that it sometimes rolled away.

I had a similar experience a few days ago. I had an email and a text message saying that the alarm had been triggered. No it hadn't, the car was sitting outside my window and I think I would have noticed. I went outside and everything was locked. I unlocked the car, opened and closed all the doors and locked it up again.

I am now on my second Karoq, both have had the 1.0 litre 3 cylinder engine. I test drove the 1.5 and 1.0 back to back, and whilst there was a noticeable difference, the 1.0 litre suited me as I mainly just drive around town. If you're coming from a BMW, the 1.5 litre will probably suit you better. I regularly carry a wheelchair which fits in the boot very comfortably. The thing to do is go to a dealer with all the equipment you would normally carry and see if it will all go in. My first Karoq had the DSG gearbox, which I absolutely hated, so I've gone back to the manual transmission on my second one. If I pulled up to a junction and the stop/start cut in, there was a delay of half to three-quarters of a second when I pulled away while the car restarted the engine, selected first gear and engaged the clutch, by which time the gap I was aiming for had disappeared. I also found the car difficult to manouevre into tight parking spaces because the transmission creep wasn't particularly predictable, particularly on hills. Unusually for an automatic, it will roll with the clutch disengaged if you've just changed from drive to reverse or vice versa. Not something you want when parking close to a brick wall. By contrast, I find the manual gearbox an absolute delight to use.

As an aside, it is becoming increasingly common for franchised garages to replace the flywheel as a matter of course when replacing a clutch. Apparently they can get damaged if the clutch overheats.

If you have the Travel Mode setting in the Light Settings menu and it is set to the correct side driving, I would say you need to do no more. The car will determine the correct beam pattern for left or right hand traffic.

I have May 2022 SE L, and when I ordered it the dealer told me that LED headlights were standard across the range. I specified the optional full matrix LED headlights and they definitely have a Travel Mode. However, it seems to make absolutely no difference as the dipped beam has a perfectly level cut off with no apparent kick up on either side. My previous (2018) Karoq with normal LED headlights did have a small kick up on the nearside, but nothing like what I was used to with halogen bulbs.

As a retired Trading Standards Officer, I have had many dealings with extended warranties over the years. In my experience, they seem to cover only those items that aren't likely to fail, and have many exclusions. Looking at the Skoda brochure you attached, it warrants covered components against "Sudden Failure". There may well be a problem with a component, but unless it suffers from sudden failure it won't be covered. There is also that universal exclusion, "Wear and Tear". When a car is three years old or more, it is nigh on impossible to prove whether a failure was caused by wear and tear or not. I'm sure some people do get good value and peace of mind from extended warranties, but personally I wouldn't bother.

I don't know whether I'm reading it correctly, but it suggests that the Travel Assist Package Plus now includes Front Assist with emergency braking. When I bought my SE L in May, Front Assist was standard equipment on all models. Does this mean Front Assist has been deleted unless you buy the Travel Assist Package Plus? The only major difference seems to be making the digital dashboard standard, instead of the previous analogue dials, with a corresponding increase in price. As someone who still wears an analogue watch, I hate digital dashboards so I glad I bought when I did.

This doesn't relate to a Skoda, but there is a dashcam video showing a similar system in operation following a collision with a coach. It was posted by Ashley Neal, a Liverpool based driving instructor. You can find it by searching for "Ashley's Analysis Didn't See That Coming" on YouTube. The system recognises the accident has occurred almost immediately and when there is no response from the driver it makes an automated emergency call after around 90 seconds.

I recently completed the first long journey in my facelift Karoq, Birmingham to Torquay. Nice and simple, M5 to Exeter, then A38 and A380 to Torquay. I generally only need satnav for the last few miles but I thought I'd try it out for the whole journey. I stopped at Michaelwood services for about half an hour and when I returned to the car the satnav had forgotten my route. With my old MIB2 satnav it would have picked up my route where I had left off and continued. With MIB3 it didn't even offer to continue navigation, it just presented me with a blank radar screen. Eventually, after several minutes, Torquay appeared on the radar screen so I selected it and the route was duly calculated. At Almondsbury junction, the satnav directed me west on the M4, towards the M48. Needless to say I ignored the instruction and continued on the M5 until the satnav finally got the message that I was going that way.

I noticed something similar when I changed my 2016 Octavia for a 2018 Karoq. The satnav voice pronunciation on the Octavia was as good as any other I've come across. However, with the Karoq I noticed some very strange pronunciations of both street names and directions with a similar rural sounding accent. I wouldn't call it regional though, I'm in Birmingham. I've just taken delivery of a new facelift Karoq and from what I've heard so far the voice seems more "normal".