DaveMiller

The brakelights stay on on autohold. They are off when the parking brake is on (because it’s no longer on autohold). On autohold, DON’T take the DSG out of drive into neutral! All brakes go off and you roll downhill nicely.

Are they not there, but a bit hidden? See this picture (from the Kodiaq workskop manuals):

When I’m driving a motorhome (I work with a motorhome company) on the motorway (no internal mirror, as with many vans and lorries) and want to pull out to overtake, I need to see the next’s lane’s traffic in the outer mirror. If it’s recently rained (speckles on the glass) or the sun is behind me (silhouette of car looks not a lot different from road), DRLs are very much more visible than vehicles with no lights, or just the parking lights, as Root recommends. They help me use a quick glance to know “not yet”. When there are no DRLs showing, then I need to spend rather longer not looking where I’m going, to see whether there is really a gap. I tend to laugh, in a rather annoyed way, at people driving on parking lights.

Snala - are you saying the Sportline doesn’t, by itself, do voice dial? That seems a backward step, as my coming-up-3-year-old Columbus system does.

Off-topic, sorry, but I remember years ago my mate’s Pontiac Bonneville in Hong Kong, converted to RHD to sell new there. The whole dash had been changed, but the brake servo stayed where it was, on the left. The brake pedal (on the right) connected behind the scenes with the rod which went through the floor (on the left) to the servo. In scary moments, the front passenger might press the floor - and bring the brakes on!

I’m not sure about that. There are really two things I want to know: - how much stuff can I get in there, and - can I get such-and-such an object in there? In the second case, the object changes: bike, chair, garden ornament, whatever. The particular shape of the object governs what measurements I need to check and a size for the biggest possible rectangular box doesn’t help. (The biggest box that can sit in the boot is also different from the biggest box that can get through the tailgate/bootlid.) Most of the time, though, I’ll be packing a variety of different things, which can be configured to make use of the way odd corners and bulges are present. Here, the overall capacity gives a useful indication.

There’s also a depreciation cost. The resultant car, having been converted by someone other than the manufacturer, would be valued at less than an original RHD, and less than an original LHD.

Are they all the same type of dashcam?

Maybe the 720 litres is measured with the rear (middle) seats fully back, and the higher figure is if you slide them fully forward and put them fully upright?

Do let us know the outcome.

I had the "full" leather on my 2017 SEL. It's real on the top faces (under your thighs and behind your back), simulated elsewhere.

You’ll have to explain that. Kodiaq VRS 0-62 is quoted as 7 seconds. Enyaq VRS 6.2 seconds

Is it possible to get the dealer to drive a different car down a road which gives the wrong reading and see that the readouts are different?

The controls on the wheel there are just like those of my 2017 model. (And they’re fine!)

At least Skoda are honest about the mysteries of when or whether the system will actively stop the car. I can't remember the wording, but the handbook openly says the pattern is beyond what may appear to the driver. As Roottoot says, it will take into account battery state, current drain, engine temperature and how hard the aircon is working. I understand it also takes account of the steering angle, whether the indicators are on, the slope, the recent pattern of movement and a host more.. I found the stopping and starting to be disconcerting at first. Then I got used to it and just let it get on with it. I nowadays hardly notice it.

I suppose it evens things out for the way the near side gets more punishment on the suspension and tyres, through rougher surfaces and stuff left lying around, after it has been flung clear from the centre of the road! I regularly attend microcar rallies, where the cars are towed there on trailers. All the owners know that if they get a puncture, or suspension sagging, on the trailer ... it'll be on the nearside.

I haven't found that the DSG gives any difficulty at all in tight manœuvres and fine adjustment of position. In fact, allowing the car to “creep” makes such adjustments particularly easy. What does make fine adjustment difficult is the auto hold of the brakes - but that’s nothing to do with the DSG, and can be turned off temporarily.

Auto-hold and parking brake are different things. Auto-hold retains pressure in the hydraulic braking system, so keeps ALL the brakes on, until released. The parking brake is physically engaged, electrically, on the rear wheels only. When you’re on auto-hold (green light on dash) and then turn off the ignition, the car THEN engages the parking brake (you can hear it), and the light goes red.

> don’t usually use the auto hold as I have to creep slowly into my garage and it makes this more difficult .😬 < I struggled with this choice for ages: have the convenience of the auto-hold, OR have the convenience of “creep” and easier manoeuvring. Occasionally, I’d turn off auto-hold in a difficult manœuvre and then forget, later relying on the brakes to have come on, when they hadn’t ... After ages (over a year!) I realised I can have “the best of both worlds”. Leave auto-hold on, then when manoeuvring put foot on brake and press down the handbrake release ( the “P” button). Auto-hold goes off - but only this once!

Do you REALLY want the electric boot? I find mine annoying, as it’s far slower than doing it by hand.

Does the DSG actualy change down to 4 (and you can see the revs go up), or is it just the display which wrongly says 4?

You’ve considered towbar, so must have an idea you’ll use it. Go for it - so much better than trying to get it fitted later, if you change your mind. Reversing camera - well worth it. I now really miss it when driving other cars. The macho “I’m not a sissy and I can use mirrors” line is balls, of course. I've never yet seen anyone able with mirrors to decide specifically whether the back of the car is 8 inches or 2 inches from the concrete wall behind, or to get the rear parked inch-perfect into the road markings for an end parking bay. The Kodiaq is a fairly long car, and I regularly use the camera to make sure that the front isn’t sticking out unnecessarily at the multi-storey, and is giving others drivers a decent chance in road-side parking bays. The camera also sees well in the dark, which just mirrors don’t do.

That still sounds low. I’ve never turned the aircon off and expect a little more to the gallon than you quote ... and mine’s petrol!

True. (No spare wheel option available for 5 seaters when I bought mine.)

I’ve had Superb Estate, then 5-seat Kodiaq. The Superb luggage space was a little longer, but not as high. I typically loaded both with 5 adults, 4 airline cabin bags and four large suitcases. The Kodiaq takes everything the Superb did - perhaps a little more, as I don’t load above the window line.