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Thanks for that, agreed looks very similar. I’ve kind of abandoned taking the bases out as even standing in the rear footwell and using both hands all I’ve accomplished is a sprained wrist. The base was just not for budging. It was a good idea, and looks easy in the manual, but reality didn’t match my hopes.

Step one in my quest for more space is an epic fail. No way that seat bench is budging, not helped be not being able to get my fingers under the bench where I’m supposed to “Pull the rear seat bench - 1 - forcefully upwards with a jerk with both hands”. I was doing it from standing in the rear side door opening, I might have to clamber into the back. Not giving up quite yet.

Forget my theory of possibly having a replacement battery at PDI stage, one of the posts has 2619 marked on in dots.

Speaking as a non expert but having messed around with the electrics on my Disco 3 & Disco 4, incl fitting second batteries, have a little experience in this area. Would only work if the socket not “protected” by a relay. If the socket is permanently live then it doesn’t have a relay in there so is not looking for the voltage from the crank battery via the ignition key. Then a trickle charger would add volts to the system, enough to power up the locks. If it is protected, and the battery is dead, then the voltage it’s looking for will prob be too low, socket will not connect to the battery and the rest of the car. Now talking of aux sockets, isn’t the boot socket, beside the little torch, perm live? That might be a route to get a trickle charger in though to give enough volts to open the locks. Bit of a clamber from the driver’s seat but not impossible. Another route the LR owners use is via towing electrics, specifically the permanently live feed for the caravan fridges. They even have has specific adapters made to connect a C-tek charger to the main battery as a routine way of charging. Works well as long as peeps remember to disconnect before driving off. PS This is the jumper cable arrangement used to make a socket, or series of sockets, perm live off the crank battery. No idea how it would look on a Karoq but the principle would be the same. Re batteries sitting dead for long stretches after manufacture, my car was built late July 19, but not picked up by me until June 20. After 5 months and 4,100 miles it hasn’t missed a beat. It was a Skoda UK preregistered car, wonder if it was charged during that time or the battery was changed as part of the PDI process.

Not to the right. Well not that I’ve noticed.

Has anyone out there removed the rear seats on a basic Karoq, ie without fancy Varioflex seats? From the maintenance manual it doesn’t look too tricky to take them out but curious to know what it’s like underneath the seats, ie the new load area. Is it like this but without the grab bars for the VF seats or is that flat area with those bars an add-on as part of the upgrade? I’m looking to use the car for a potential camping trip to W & N Finland next summer and I think I can just about squeeze all by stuff in and still see out all the windows. Having an additional load area like above would be very useful.

Re the Conti winters, found no loss in mpg on a 1,200 mile like for like trip. The yellow mark is where they were changed. If anything the mpg is better.

All look fine to me. Build date end July 2019.