MrTrilby

If you don’t come to a complete stop it restarts as soon as you lift your foot off the brake.

Yes. Completely normal.

For what it’s worth, 7 pin electrics do have a pin for a rear fog light on the trailer, but do not have a pin for reversing lights.

It was also standard fit to the SEL when I bought mine - not just fitted to the Scout. It also changes the gearbox behaviour on DSG equipped cars.

Blimey, that’s unpleasantly harsh. It’s pretty trivial to check for yourself if you don’t believe him: sit in your car with the engine running and try pressing the lock button on the fob. I just tried it and Zac is right - default is the fob is ignored whilst the engine is running.

We drive without mudguards. Lots of mucky lanes by us in the winter. The car gets dirty. Very dirty. Judging by just how much of the car gets covered by grot, I'm not convinced mudguards make enough difference to justify spending money on them, and I would only worry that they present a nice hidden area for salt to accumulate and rot the bodywork.

We’ve had ours for 2 years now, so no issues with WLTP or RDE2. There were apparently a few options that I managed to avoid ticking.

A pano roof and tow bar get you most of the way there. Throw in heated steering wheel, heated rear seats, adaptive cruise control and a few cheaper options and you are well into “I hope they don’t announce a price rise before its registered” territory.

It’s not difficult to get a 190 TDi SEL perilously close to the £40k list price boundary. Don’t ask me how I know ;(

When we bought our Kodiaq, with the equivalent options it didn’t seem any cheaper than the equivalent Tiguan AllSpace. We just preferred the more practical boot layout of the Kodiaq. Base spec Skodas might be cheaper than VWs, but I’m not sure that holds true as you move up the model range.

And also for me: I do a lot of miles on unlit roads. But if I was only doing 5k miles a year on urban roads with streetlights, I’d much less inclined to pay a premium for them. Everyone is different.

for what it’s worth, mine is showing the same wear pattern. There’s around 1mm difference between the front and rear after 55k miles. I did swap front to rear once at around 20k miles but haven’t really bothered since due to the relatively even tyre wear. As a proportion of its mileage, my car does very little accelerating out of junctions which is where I guess a lot of the extra front tyre wear comes from (accelerating hard and cornering). Edited to add that my car is AWD

Have you now moved on from “you bought the wrong engine”, past “you bought the wrong car”, and now you’re going with “you chose the wrong country to live in / buy a car”? It’s comedy genius. You’re certainly livening up the school holidays. We’ll miss you when term starts. For what it’s worth, my wife’s Volvo XC40 cost almost exactly the same as our Kodiaq. XC90s are just a tiny bit more expensive.

Just brilliant. So now you’re not just going with the “you bought the wrong engine” but adding “you bought the wrong car”. Genius.

Who would have thought an empty lower power 2wd Karoq could get better fuel economy than a 300kg heavier, larger more powerful 4wd Kodiaq? Whilst there’s no denying that those impressive figures for a petrol engine, it’s pretty much irrelevant on a Kodiaq forum in a discussion about the 190bhp petrol and Diesel engines fitted to 4wd cars.

Those sorts of statistics are utterly pointless to quote unless you’re the sort of great driver that needs to impress random people on forums. I’ve had just shy of 55mpg out of my 4wd 190 Kodiaq, but it was a one way trip with a serious tailwind, overall gentle downhill and completely unladen. So utterly unrepresentative of what the car is really capable of in normal driving. If I’d quoted the range the car was capable of at the end of that journey it would have looked amazing, and also been a lie: The economy/range was not quite so impressive for the return trip when the brick aerodynamics became as big disadvantage as the tailwind became a monster headwind...

You can really manage 625 miles with the car fully laden at motorway speeds? Where fully laden is 4 up; boot full to the ceiling; 4 bikes on a bike rack + roof box. That’s unbelievably impressive.

Some people do considerably more than 8000 miles a year. For me the real advantage of diesel over petrol is range rather than economy or cost. I miss the refinement and revs of our last petrol car, but I don’t miss sometimes having to fill up twice in the same day, and usually having to fill up at least twice a week. If we didn’t do the miles, or I had confidence that the 2 litre petrol could do 40-45mpg fully laden at motorway speed (to give us the range), I’d have the petrol version every time.