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I suspect they'd write-off the V6 at the drop of a hat, if you ever needed to make a claim. But that said, that IS pretty reasonable insurance.

I love the idea of a 3.6, but running costs and repair worries would be inhibiting. I suspect it will come down to you seeing the right car at the right price on the day. You'll get in, have a drive and that will be it. Even a Nervous Nelly car-buyer like me eventually found "The One" that ticked all the boxes I needed ticking on the day to get me to buy it. (Even if I had to put up with 6 months of buyer's remorse afterwards wondering if I should have bought a vRS instead. 😄) Good luck! 🤞

Enables, but doesn't have to necessitate. That said, I don't (at this time) believe that EV acceleration that kills range, it seems that the energy needed to sustain high speeds seems to be the issue limiting range. Improved efficiency at speed appears to me to be an important factor in extending battery range, which is what I want from an EV. (That said, I am very much not an EV expert.)

EVs have far more performance than many people are accustomed to or need, and accident figures are going to reflect this. I'm not sure why the emphasis has been on performance rather than range for so many of them, but then I suppose using strong acceleration to try and attract "petrolheads" to EVs makes sense. I'd be happier with a 0-60 time of under 7 seconds and a 500 mile range rather than something with a sub 5 second 0-60 time and a 300 mile range.

The leather is nice, but for me, the sunroof is a problem waiting to happen, and the park assist and electric rear tailgate are novelties, so I'd be looking at the MY18. (And wishing it had a bigger engine. 😄)

Sorry, I missed that. As @Rooted said, I think I'd give it a miss as the price seem a bit high. Not sure how long the clutch pack on the DQ200's last, but they're not renowned for being great gearboxes anyway. (That said, I have a DQ381 on my car, which I had thought was a solid box, but am informed that they can decide to take an early bath.) But your plan to buy a young high-mileage car is sound IMO, so long as the price is right.

Looks okay to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cW5RosDnzg

Hi! What's the mileage on the car?

Just saw this and found it a good watch. Some of you might enjoy it too.

Hello and welcome. You car looks fantastic, very tasteful mods!

You can retrofit anything, if the skill, determination and money are available to get it done. Whether the cost of the retrofit is worth it is debatable, but it can be done. I was quoted £680 to retrofit ACC on my Octavia, at which point I decided I'd rather keep my £680 than add adaptive cruise control to my car. If you need a new camera as well as other bits, lane assist could be an expensive "upgrade" for you. There's no guarantee you'll actually like it when it's fitted, as it's one of those features that can be really helpful, but can also be quite annoying/surprising in its behaviour. A quick search online tells me it's likely to cost you in excess of £1000 to get it fitted by someone, but you might be able to do it cheaper yourself if you can get the bits, have the skill and access to the calibration kit. "Might" is the operative word. Fitting it is one thing, getting it working how you want it to work is quite another.

If you turn off the engine before exiting the vehicle, the warning will not sound.

Be cautious if it's very cold, as the cold makes plastic more brittle. It might be worth leaving until it's warmer, when the plastic is more flexible and forgiving of being bent about.

Not really, I went from the dictionary. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meticulous The "should be fine" approach you took to your worn brakes was not meticulous. I'm not saying it was wrong or unreasonable, or that it was skimping on maintenance. I'm saying it was not meticulous.

Respectfully, I suggest that to be meticulous with car maintenance means to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to anything that is not 100% okay. You cannot accept that the brakes will need changing soon, but should be fine for next week's MOT and claim to be meticulous. Delaying repair until absolutely necessary is a reasonable and cost-effective approach to car maintenance, but it is not meticulous.

Thank you @bigade1, this is so helpful. I really appreciate you posting these updates. 👍

I have a few concerns. Unless things have changed dramatically since I bought my car 3.5 years ago (2019 SE L), cars with a really high spec like that are hard to find, and tend to get snapped up quickly. So a car in a good colour that is highly specced-up is unlikely to be sat at a dealer's for a couple of months, let alone 18 months. I hear Google Chrome has an extension that allows you to track price drops on AutoTrader. If that is correct, it might be worth seeing how much that car was originally put up for sale at and track the price changes. Also, as @kodiaqsportline says, that interior really is very nice. That might be down to meticulous care by the previous owner, but if that were the case, it seems unlikely that a meticulous owner would let the brakes get to a dangerous state to be bounced at the MOT. That seems odd to me. But if everything works and it drives well, it looks like a nice car with an unusually high spec. I think I'd run a vehicle check on it to ensure there are no nasty surprises waiting to be discovered. Good luck!

Good luck! 🤞

Second this. It is insane how many spurious faults seem to be kicked off by a weak/dodgy battery.

Personally, I dislike the 1.0 TSI in anything other than a super-mini, and I predicted they would start to fall apart at around 100k miles of hard work in the larger cars. However I haven't seen reports that this has happened with VAG 1.0 engines (though the Ford 1.0L engines have a pretty ropey reliability on both engine & gearbox, AFAIK) so it looks like my prediction has not (yet) come to pass. So based on what I know, I don't think expecting 5 years happy motoring out of this vehicle to be unreasonable at all. That said, I'd still go for a 1.5TSI in preference over the 1.0TSI engine, but then I wouldn't buy a Karoq in the first place, so my preference is not relevant to you. Might be worth finding out why the water pump was changed.

Having a reversing camera for most people is a pleasant luxury, not a necessity. I have managed without a reversing camera for decades. Then I fitted one, and while find I still use my mirrors to reverse, the camera is useful for precise manoeuvring where there is a bollard or other low obstacle directly behind my car. Perhaps your post can make people with reversing cameras feel inferior to you, but I expect they'll see straight through your "amazement" to the childish malice behind it.

I think he's a bit ahead of you on that idea, hence the divorce.

IMO give it a good spray with contact cleaner as suggested by nta16. I wouldn't use GT85 or any other oil-based lubricant on electrics, however nice it smells.

One slightly random point: My neighbours are getting divorced. For some time, he (who is getting booted out) brought his Tesla to charge at what was home, during an initial period of goodwill. However the period of goodwill is now over and the Tesla (on lease) is not allowed to be charged at home. I wonder how he's doing for charging, now the availability of home charging is denied to him? He still has to work full time, and is now in the process of going through a divorce with associated stress and costs of that. He's probably got a tough gig for a while.

My car's getting a treat with proper colour code touch-up paint. Previously I've used "close enough" Hammerite" smooth for stone chips, which was fine on white and silver cars. Absolute animal, but I figured if it ever got bad enough, I'd get the panel resprayed. But it never did! 😄