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Our 190 TDI SE L was supplied from the factory on 225/50x18 tyres on 8J Braga alloys. It will raise the gearing a bit and your speedo should be a bit more accurate than it is now. However, best to check it against a GPS speed reading when you have then fitted.

Ageing hooligan here and when I'm in my wife's 190 TDI, I rarely, if ever, use the paddles. I have the Individual Mode set to Sport apart from the artificially weighted steering. I use that almost all the time and then crack on.

They do get a bit smelly as they get older and put on the miles. That's particularly the case when you first start them up in low ambient temperatures and / or leave them idling. My old Mk5 Golf used to stink and it had 90K+ miles on it. I noticed that my 47K mile 2016 Yeti 150 TDI SCR was a bit smelly when I started it up the other night, whereas it wasn't in milder weather. Walk past a row of idling taxis and you'll probably notice the same smell. On the other hand I haven't noticed the exhaust on my wife's 2019 Karoq 190 TDI SCR with 25K miles on it smelling particularly.

I think that's much too hot. I had that discussion with a friend a few years ago when I was seeing 108 - 109 on a Tiguan with a tuning box fitted. He was a chemical engineer and a senior exec with BP. I'm pretty sure he said that anything over 130 would lead to the oil breaking down.

See, if you'd bought a Yeti you'd have Oil Temperature in the MFD....😀 I've got one of those grille blanks on the Yeti. It certainly helps to get the oil up to temperature more quickly. I've run it through a couple of Scottish summers and I've never seen more than 104 deg C, even thrashing my remapped 150 TDI.

This is the pic that prompted me to have ours done at 20k. It was posted on the Skoda Karoq Owners UK page on Facebook by a garage in Galashiels.

It probably depends on how many miles it's been driven, in what kind of conditions and therefore how often the Haldex has engaged more than the ever present 10% torque to the rear wheels, I saw some pics recently of the Haldex mesh strainer from a Karoq that was badly clogged at 20k miles. On the basis of that, I had Haldex oil changed and the strainer cleaned in our Karoq at 20k miles by our local independent VAG specialist. Two before and one after pic attached. The guy who did the job said he'd seen worse. Whatever you do, make sure that the Haldex pump is removed and the strainer is cleaned. That service procedure is not included on any VAG dealership service schedule.

I don't think that's advisable unless you're going to remove the DPF as well. The EGR is involved in DPF regeneration. Removing it is likely to put more load on the DPF.

Could you just have stickers made up that say 'Brake Caliper' on them....? 😇

I suspect that rather than simply being down to relative adhesion levels, the breakaway characteristics of a tyre will have a greater influence on both driver behaviour and safety. A tyre which grips like the proverbial and then lets go all of a sudden is more likely to induce uncontrolled sliding behaviour than one which has a more progressive breakaway.

No, it was a 2.0 TDI which I bought new in 2008 to cheer myself up after getting back from a great holiday in California and Oregon. We'd had a RAV4 there for 3 weeks and I went car shopping thinking about one of those and came home having test driven one before I ordered another new Golf to replace my 8 year old Mk4 GT TDI. You wouldn't see torque figures anywhere near 330 lbs-ft from the 1.4 TSI engine even when it's remapped.

At that point it might be getting on for being as quick as my old Mk5 GT Sport Golf 170 TDI which was remapped to 210 bhp and 330 lbs-ft. That was great for overtaking dawdlers.

We had three 4Motion Mk1 Tiguans between 2011 and 2019. My wife was doing a sizeable mileage for work so we were changing them every 2.5 years or so. We had a manual 140 TDI R Line with 19" wheels which gripped like the proverbial in corners but was gutless, A Viezu Tuning Box woke it up a bit. That also found its way onto the manual 170 TDI Match Edition on 17's which followed it. It was quick and fun to drive. Next was a DSG 184 TDI Match Line which wasn't quite so quick as the 170 + Tuning Box but good enough. My wife used them as her work car and mobile office and I used them to pull a couple of trailers occasionally. The Tiguans followed on from my wife's BMW 123d which was stuck in a snow drift for 3 weeks in 2010, outside our house on the Forth Estuary. Hence the move to AWD and winter tyres. Hard to compare them with the Karoq. They were relatively old technology, being based on the Mk5 Golf platform, as is my Yeti, rather than the MQB platform of the Karoq. When the time came to change we test drove the new Tiguan but for the spec we wanted, it was going to come in at £40k plus and we weren't prepared to pay that. We visited the local friendly Škoda dealer who had kindly loaned us a Yeti for the afternoon in 2010 and then couldn't give us a delivery date for one, on spec. When he heard what we were looking for, i.e. a 190 TDI Karoq, the DP said he just happened to have one that had just been delivered. We tested a FWD 150 TDI and liked it. They gave us a good price without any haggling on our part. From memory, it was c £32k. I half suspect our car was either a cancelled order or they were concerned about shifting it as the 190 is probably not most buyers' choice. It's well specced with leather, heated wheel with flappy paddles, heated screen, reversing camera, space saver spare and they did us a good price on fitting an aftermarket tow bar. Almost 3 years later, we've only got c, 25k miles on it, rather than the 45k we'd budgeted for at the outset as, like many people during the pandemic, my wife decided she'd had enough of her senior management post. On reflection, apart from the newer technology, the Karoq is more comfortable, relaxed, and quieter. It's a better long distance tourer, although the furthest it's been to date was a trip to Lincolnshire to collect a motorcycle trailer. There are tentative plans for a trip to the Haute Loire in it next year. The handling is much lighter and it's more chuckable. The effects of XDS+ are very noticeable and it rotates very nicely in tight corners with very little understeer. The only downside to that being that I managed to cook the front discs and pads at c. 18k miles on one particularly quick return trip of 280 miles across country. It's now wearing drilled Brembo discs and Brembo HP pads on the front. It is a bit bouncy when pushed hard on bumpy roads and I can see a set of KONI Special Active Shock absorbers in its near future and it might have the ECU flashed to see c. 230 bhp. Other than that, it's probably the best car we've had in the dozen we've owned over the past two dozen years

Personally, I'd look for a set of 17's. The clearance from brake calliper to wheel rim can be a bit tight on 16's, if you have 312 mm discs on the front. I know our 190 TDI has that size of disc, yours may be different. Also 16's will have higher tyre side walls which will, as you've suggested, soften the ride quality. You will however lost some steering precision. Over the years, I ran 16's, 17's, 18's and 19's on three successive Mk1 VW Tiguans and concluded that for me, 17's were by far the best compromise. I'm now using the Audi Q3 alloys which I had on the last of the Tiguans with Dunlop D5 Winter Sport as winter wheels to replace the OEM 18's on our 2019 SE L.

I feel another echo coming on...😁

Please let us know if you are able to enable XDS in your Fabia.

You are but a youth, Sir. I have 7 years on you and I trust that I will never be too old to stop driving and riding a motorcycle like a hooligan....😇 To get into XDS on a Yeti you follow this procedure... Yeti VCDS Coding for Brake Assist & XDS In VCDS Select Control Module, go to (03) ABS Brakes, then (10) Adaptation, go to Channel: Channel 09 Brake Assist (This will then activates Channel 36) There are 3 settings: 0-center (stock setting) 1-small 2-hard Channel 36 XDS There are 3 settings: 0-center (stock setting) 1-weak 2-strong

It might be worth seeing if you can enable XDS. For example it's in Yeti ECU's from the factory but it's not enabled. You can switch it on with VCDS and set it to Hard or Soft. It does however shorten brake disc and pad like, if you drive like a hooligan....😇

Much too anthropomorphic for me. We bought a 190 because we wanted the extra performance and to be fair, I think 39 mpg is pretty good considering how it gets driven,

Outrageous! How dare you Sir? Our 2019 190 TDI is currently displaying a long-term average of 39.1 mpg.

Does French diesel still have a higher calorific value thank UK diesel? In the early 90's I managed 40 mpg holding 100 mph for several hours on the Autoroute in my Citroën BX TZD Turbo.

Supermarine Spitfire replica flying past the Forth Road Bridge. A few years ago, now...

After I bought my 2016 SE L Drive privately in 2020, I had a discussion with the DP in my local Škoda dealership about its spec. He wasn't too miffed that I hadn't bought one from them as we'd just purchased a new Karoq from them a few months previously and I've know him for years. As well as the usual SE L drive accoutrements, mine has a factory fit reversing camera and the rare electrically adjustable driver's seat. He said that by the time my car was built, almost all Yetis were being built to order. Therefore late cars were usually specced with a number of options.

Putting that part number into Google gives you... https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/1k0513029mn-rear-shock-absorber-37935.html https://www.autodoc.co.uk/car-parts/oem/1k0513029mn

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