Kitchengirl

I'm an outlier, but it doesn't mean its random. I think mine was put together by a stoned prisoner on a Monday morning, or last thing on a Friday afternoon, when he just wanted to knock off for the day and have a bevvie. My takeaway from this though, is that Skoda's "diagnostic tools" are absolute crap. They are unable to diagnose why a fault exists and fix it.

I don’t understand that... why would one person randomly end up with more faults than other person? We have pretty crappy roads here in NZ too. My friend, who also bought a Kodiaq after I raved about mine two weeks in, has also had a number of issues, including the starting fault. Which, to be fair, is a pretty major fault!!!! She hasn’t had as many as me, but still quite a few.

At one point after a year of randomly not starting, they replaced the ECU. Had to wait months for that to arrive though - in the meantime, being late for appts, not able to get home at night with kids in the car etc. Now they just test it and say, “Well it worked perfectly for us”. I’ve gotten to the point that I take video evidence of any fault before I take it in.

If it wasn’t for the reliability and the never ending problems I’d love. I did once love it. But after 3 years of the inconvenience of always having something wrong (minor and major) I’ve had a gutsful.

I’ve asked for the entire service record. In hindsight, I probably should have. However, I’ve done 100k in it now. Once the warranty runs out, I’ll be getting rid of it.

Hi, I bought a Kodiaq in 2018. Since then, I don’t think I’ve had a single week where something doesn’t work. It is constant - the car randomly stops starting for 18 month period, the foot activated boot opener doesn’t work, the driver door boot button won’t work, the windows won’t go up and down, the lane assist doesn’t work, the Apple car play doesn’t connect, the water pump breaks down while on holiday in a remote part of New Zealand, the Bluetooth stops working, the engine temperature thermometer randomly spikes.... and so on. I’ve probably forgotten a whole heap too. This is the most unreliable car I’ve ever owned. Has anyone else had these problems or did I just get the lemon of the century?