MrTrilby

Another data point: ours is. 2018 190bhp Kodiaq TDI and has not had any issues to date. 3.5 years and 72,000 miles. It’s now on its second set of tyres (I changed a bit early for some all seasons) and second set of brake pads but that doesn’t seem unreasonable for the mileage. We’ve not had any issues with door protectors (one stuck out once when my daughter wedge her bicycle in the door, but it popped back on again), and the panoramic roof has also been fine. Fuel economy is still 45mpg on a run. Less on cold short journeys. Much less when you hustle a 2 tonne AWD car with 190bhp - no real surprise. I did take the 100k miles/5 year extended warranty for peace of mind, but not needed it yet.

On my auto Kodiaq I use the manual park brake button for two things: when stopped in traffic for a while at night I manually activate it, which then switches off the brake lights - it seems a kind thing to do; when I know the car is going to be parked on the level for a while (or after washing it) I manually deactivate it - it helps reduce the chance of the pads seizing to the disks.

Warmer weather but not too warm, so quick to get up to operating temperature and low load on the heating/cooling/electrical systems. Gone are the days when I used to routinely get 45+mpg on warm weather journeys. The car seems be thirstier as it ages (probably partly my driving style), not helped by switching to All Season tyres.

I’m assuming you’re talking about a young child in a car seat if they’re sleeping and you’re too scared to wake them. In which case, as well as damaging the environment you’re also risking damaging their spine if you leave them in a car seat for extended periods. Better to get them out and let them sleep somewhere more suitable: https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/a-z-of-services/leeds-maternity-care/news/2017/08/18/useful-advice-on-baby-seats

For info, our 190 TDi Kodiaq has just had its front brake pads changed for the 1st time at 65k miles and 3 years. I try to avoid leaving it parked up with the auto parking brake engaged - if it’s on the level then “Park” is sufficient - leaving it sat for a week or more with the parking brake engaged definitely causes issues with the brake pads sticking to the disks and giving you the drumming sensation under heavy or sustained braking.

For a 190bhp 4x4: A touch over 50mpg if you want to count unusual journeys that are hard to repeat. 48mpg on a decent length motorway journey now that the weather has warmed up is fairly easy to repeat. Something beginning with a 2 is sadly also easy to repeat for spirited driving on lanes.

It is what it is. Move on. Other manufacturers do similar things with option packs.

What do you think they used to do when the heated steering wheel and flappy paddles were separate options? It’s not hard. Options packs where several options are bundled together aren’t particularly novel or new.

The under seat vents will be used more for warm air on cold days.

Wheel balance issues can cause odd vibrations at particular speeds

You will also need the hardware for self levelling and headlamp washing that your car may physically not have. Without it your install would not be legal, and will dazzle oncoming traffic.

We thought the LED lights were worthwhile. They’re substantially brighter than non LED. Your mileage may vary though. Depends what value you place on it. The electric boot is not something I’d pay extra for, but it is something I miss when I use our car that doesn’t have the electric boot. The SEL suede seats do not get hot in the sun. We effectively paid extra to get an SEL over the Edition model because we preferred the suede seats to leather, and ding regret our choice of seats. If you’re doing decent miles/hours in the car then I would consider the upgrade to electric seats purely for the additional lumbar support options. We have the factory electric tow bar to use with our bike rack, and if you’re using the tow bar frequently then it’s fantastic. I wouldn’t buy another car that isn’t DSG/auto. It’s great. I never find myself thinking it’s in the wrong gear. Ours is the 190bhp diesel, so 4x4 and slightly worse economy than the 2wd 150bhp diesel. We get 40-45mpg. 50mpg on certain runs if you’re exceptionally careful. 35-40mpg in the winter or on short runs. If I were buying again I’d get the petrol version as you have to do stupid numbers of miles (30k pa) to offset the higher purchase cost of the diesel, which we’re no longer doing in this weird Covid world of ours.

Mine was exactly the same and need topping up at around 2000 and 18000 miles. It hasn’t needed touching since (beyond routine servicing) and is up to 63000 miles now.

Have you tried unlocking the car. Moving your key far away. Then sitting in the car and trying to start it? Basically test for a key being left in the car. The few times that I have experienced weird locking behaviour turned out to be because I’d left a key in the car.

And if you don’t have the P button, you can tap an icon on the screen to switch off the camera. I forget what it looks like, but there aren’t that many so experimentation will quickly find it.

Because they’re a car company who is good at designing and building cars. They can’t really expect to compete with software companies who are good at designing and building software. The operating system and maps software on my phone get updates every few months for free. My phone knows far more about me than the car ever will, because my phone gets used for much more than my car. So it can be cleverer. And arguably Skoda are more forward thinking than many of their rivals. We just bought a second hand Fabia for my daughter because Skoda embraced CarPlay far earlier than Ford and others. So despite being a few years old, her car now has the latest in navigation with live traffic updates, voice control and streaming media like Spotify. Just by hooking up her phone. Makes things like the Fiesta from the same era with just a radio look pretty primitive.

I think most who have negative things to say about the built in in nav are comparing it to phones rather than old fashioned dedicated plug in things. When I get in my car in the morning, my phone automatically offers to navigate to work - I just need to tap “go” to start. And because I know the way to work it also offers to just show me the ETA, so I can anticipate any traffic issues and go a different route if I need. When I get in the car in the evening, my phones offers to navigate me home. Again a single press on the dash to start it off. If I’m heading of for an appointment that’s in my phone’s calendar, it offers that as an option too - so if I do nothing, I can remind myself which address I’m going to, and I can choose to use nav if I want without keying in the address. The car system cannot do any of that. The car system definitely picks slower and odd routes for me - it’s utterly allergic to using anything other than major A roads unless it really has no choice, and then it seems completely unable to differentiate between a B road and an unmade track. And finally the car system will only have up to date maps and take account of traffic conditions to route around them if you have the expensive annual Skoda subscription. I know it can also use the free TMC data for traffic but the level of detail and timeliness of that data is truly awful compared to Google/Apple/Waze. True I have to plug my phone in to use it in my 2018 car, but it’s wireless in the most recent ones. For the price of a map subscription form Skoda I could buy a 3rd party wireless dongle to make it wireless in my car too.

Completely true with my car. There must be a variance between model years or options. Mine is 2018 with the extended LED interior lights option.

That is 100% not how my Kodiaq operates. Open the boot with the car locked - only the boot lights come on. Unlock the car first and all lights come on dimly. Open the boot and only the boot lights go bright. The interior lights switch off completely after a minute. The only way to get the interior lights to illuminate and stay illuminated is to open a door. It is annoying for me because the boot lights are easily blocked by items in the boot. It would be a big improvement if the third row seat lighting also came on when the boot is open - given they primarily illuminate the boot.

Yes. If I unlock the car then all the interior lights come on. However, if you then open the boot and only the boot, only the boot lights remain on. After 30s or so the other interior lights time out and switch off. Plus, that’s only any use if the car was locked in the first place, which if I’m busy loading up the boot with stuff for a trip is usually not the case. The only solution I’ve found is to slightly open one of the rear doors in order to force the interior lights on.

Curiously this is not what happens in my 2018 Kodiaq, and it’s rather annoying. If I open the boot, the boot lights come on, but the interior passenger lights do not (irritating because the 3rd row lights illuminate the boot). If I open a passenger door, the interior lights come on as expected (so I know the switches are in the correct position). It has always been this way since new, so I don’t think there is a fault.

Not all child seats fit in all cars. I don’t know if these people are answering their phones at the moment but it’s worth speaking to them about which seats will fit. My only connection with them is they have trained me (some years ago) how to safely fit car seats, and what to look for. They really know their stuff. https://incarsafetycentre.co.uk/contact/mk

If I recall on newer cars, whether coasting kicks in or not depends on how quickly you come off the throttle? Gentle release of the throttle results in coasting.

I had the exact same experience. The spec of the car was not as I ordered, and it was down to me to spot it. My point was that Skoda could not force me to buy the car. They offered me the option of walking away and getting my deposit back, or a “financial adjustment” to account for the change in spec. Fortunately for us the change in spec was annoying but minor.

Doesn’t that just mean that they are not obliged to keep the spec the same from one week to the next. So if you look at the configurator this week and decide to buy a red car but don’t order until next week, they’re warning that they might not sell red cars next week. Once you’ve ordered, your contract is for what is ordered. Skoda can’t turn around and say “we know you ordered a car, but we reserve the right to change the spec and now deliver you a moped”. In my limited experience, provided you notice, Skoda will make good changes to spec either by allowing you to reject the car, or giving you some cash.