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Agreed re the size of the wheel, but I need that size. I don’t fancy using the skinny spare with its 50/50 limitations if I get a puncture at 5am on a Sunday morning somewhere between Aviemore and Perth with 500 miles still to go, a route I do reasonably regularly. I’d want to change the wheel, either myself or viA RAC type chap, then get going, no piddling around on said Sunday morning trying to get my original tyre repaired or replaced. I’d rather do that at my leisure once I get to my destination. I was used to carrying spares underslung (Disco3s & 4) but that had its disadvantages too, esp the risk of theft. With a relatively compact car, along with 4x4 gubbins, there are not many options. With the above layout at least I don’t have to empty the boot out to get to the wheel, just undo the strap and pull, plus the right sized hole and newly available cover to bung on the grubby wheel. Well that’s the plan anyway, hope never to need to put it to the test.

Sooooooooo, bit of an update. Car was in the dealers for reversing camera and dash cam fit and I mentioned the issue with filling the AB. Servicing chap had a chat with technical chap and the conclusion was the car had a 7ltr AB tank so that would explain why I could only get 5 ltrs in there. Begs the question, 7ltr tank or the 12ltr tank the manual says is there? Advice was run it low and fill it up, then keep an eye on it for the nest few days. Hmmmmmmm, not convinced.

I don’t want to clutter up the other thread re fitting spares to a Karoq so started a new one. 👍 Previously I carried my full sized spare flat, using my skinny spare mounting kit with the floor level kept flat by padding the volume above the tools with general stuff, much of it un-needed. It did compromise space, making a pretty small boot and less useable but the need to carry a full sized wheel (be it summer or winter tyre) outweighed the volume sacrifice. Here’s the boot with just a tyre in there when I was first sorting it. Not the ideal boot area, but managed. Then I had a bit of a Eureka moment and wondered if it would fit on its edge, which it did. It fits almost perfectly, the load cover pops out of the mounting thingie but the door closes fine. The tools fit in a tiny bag, all bar the locking key & tweezers which I keep in the front of the car. In the side cubby hole is jack tools, when brace, 1ltr oil and gardening gloves. All snug. See next again pic. First step, find piece of carpet that fits, kind off. Pack jacking kit and other stuff in cubby hole. Put wheel in there, get SWMBO to hold wheel and ratchet strap the wheel to the shopping bag rail. It feels pretty solid, no movement or wobble. Lots of space behind the wheel. In there, as well as the tools above, are 2 jackets, 2 pairs of fleece gloves, 2 hats and jump leads. With some spare space for small things I can post through the spokes. Final result, deeper but narrower boot, more volume available and should be more usable for us. Time will tell, but can all be put back together if it doesn’t work.

I carry a full sized alloy as a spare using the skinny spare Mount then packed out with “stuff” to keep the boot level. OK, I loose a good chunk of volume in what is already a small boot but for me that’s a sacrifice worth making. Here pre “stuff” packing. However I had a bit of a Eureka moment recently and wondered if I could get the wheel in any other way. Tools from the spare kit pack in a stupidly small bag, they fit in the LHS side pouch along with the standard 1l oil bottle. With all the polystyrene removed and down to the floor, the wheel sits fine on its edge, then ratchet strapped to the rail that hold the hooks for the shopping bags. It pops out the load cover on one side but all door closes fine, also I can get quite a bit of my “stuff” in the cavity of the wheel and between the wheel and the boot wall. The wheels in a cover so luggage kept off the tyre, it gives a narrower but deeper boot that should work better for me. Off cut of carpet acts as a perfect floor lining. Now as they say, no pic = didn’t happen, but the car is in the dealers for fitting the reversing camera & dashcam so everything’s out of the boot but I’ll get shot once I put the spare back in. 👍

Same here on mine, engine shutting down before I’ve even stopped. If I don’t remember to press the “kill the piggin’ SS button” MrsDSL will do so and give me that look! 🙄

Unfortunately Karoq wheels are like hen’s teeth on Fleabay. I was lucky, I got one set of 17” Ratikons on EBay and one set from Gumtree (5 for full set of winter wheels, 1 spare for “summer” set plus 2 that I haven’t found a use for), but I can’t remember ever seeing a Triton listed.

You could do it the hard way, drop by drop using the dipstick. Put it in, take it our & wipe down. Repeat. My folks put too much oil in there car when they changed “check the oil” to “top up the oil” in their minds. It didn’t take them too long (an hour or so) and was the maintenance equiv of doing lines. You’d hope they wouldn’t make that mistake again but I’m not convinced.

Firstly, daft question and I can’t see why there should be but any warranty issues with getting the car serviced several (7 - 8) weeks early? It ties in with where I’ll be and means I don’t have to take the car up to the Inverness VW dealer in early Jan. The warranty t&cs just refer to as per servicing schedule. Anyone heard of any warranty problems with getting services done early? Secondly, for the 3rd year of the overseas section of the new car warranty it’s pay and claim when travelling outside the UK. That’s weird enough but it has this clause in there: In order for reimbursement to be possible the repair invoice must be returned to a UK Authorised Repairer within 14 calendar days of the invoice date. Seriously? We’re planning 2 x 7 week trips to France year so if I need to have something done can this be done remotely via email & pic? Anyone any experience of this?

From memory the tank should be 12 ltrs, and deffo didn’t want to accept more than 1/2 the 10ltr container when the dash indicated it should take the whole lot. The “range” has dropped by 1,000 miles since I filled it up, which is about right cf the mileage I’ve done in the car since. Now got 2,500 miles until empty and can add approx 3.5 - 4.5l (from memory) but will leave it until I’ve done another 2,000 miles.

Anyone that buys Nespresso capsules shouldn’t have a problem getting the above mentioned Touch car cups as they regularly have them in “buy so many capsules, get a free car cup” offers. At last count I have 5 or 6, all free.

Maybe that’s what went wrong on Apollo 13, the AB tank wasn’t full.

I was only 400 miles short of that distance and could only get half the 10l container in. Even though the tank was full, or more accurately I couldn’t get any more in, the system said I could still get between 3.5 and 5.5 litres in there. That’s after ~7,000 miles from new. What concerns me is when I can’t get any more in I get a “range” of 3,500 miles, which I’m interpreting as either I didn’t actually fill the tank or I did fill it and the system has an issue calculating how much has been used and how much is now in there. I’ll leave it the range count gets to the hundred and try again, pos via a forecourt pump.

Deffo flat as a flat thing. None got spilt on the paintwork, just flowed down the overflow. Reset the range on the system, now down to 3,000 miles and add 4.something to 5l to fill, which I know it won’t take. Means my AB range is now 3,500 miles, not the 8,000 miles when the car was new.

Yes, held it on pos 2 (one before cranking) and counted to 45, give it a chance to do it’s thing. I’ll try it again when next out tomorrow.

Ignoring anti diesel rants, feel free to do that elsewhere, anyone any idea why I could only get half in what the car was thinking it should take?

Average after 7k miles actual average is 51.something mpg, but on a long (550 miles) and slow (60 - 65mph on cc) drive my best is 59.1mpg, a few fills at 58mpg. Down a bit today (47.something mpg) but most of that fill was driving up at 70 - 75, plus SWMBO was driving much of it. Re forecourt fills, none of my local places have AB pumps that I know of, though might try that when passing a big truck and car ESSO station on the A9 at Perth. Once I’ve used up the rest of that container in the garage.

I'm just starting a ~1,300 mile jolly, didn’t want a 10l container rattling around in the boot so I thought, from the indicated amount it would take, I’d get the lion’s share of the container in there. I was originally going to wait until the indicated max fill amount was over 10l but since it was saying up to 8.5l I thought I’d easily get 3/4 of the container in there. It’s now saying up to 4.5l, as it was a couple of hundred miles ago this morning, but there is no way any more was going in. I might try the reset routine tomorrow to see if the range and fill amount changes.

A minor inconvenience cf almost 60mpg from a 4x4.

Car was reading 1,400 miles range on the old AdBlue, I can add 5.something litres to 8.5 litres, 10 litre container at the ready. Planned to fill it up until there was only 1/4 of the container left. Well that was the plan. Then it all went pear shaped. She probably only took 5 litres of the stuff when it started overflowing and dumping the excess down the fuel filler overflow drain. Tried it again, no joy, it wasn’t taking any more. Half of the AdBlue is still in the container and a good dollop all over my drive. Reset the AdBlue “clock” by leaving the ignition on for over 30 seconds and it was only showing 3,500 miles “range” so only added 2,100 miles. What have I done wrong?

I come from over 30 years of LR ownership and nothing I’ve read here, or experienced in a year of Karoq ownership, would put me off. OK Skoda CS looks to be a bit of a joke but at least the cars work (mostly, ignoring satnav and sunroofs) as they should and I’m not in first name terms with the local service manager. Wouldn’t go back.

Deffo the A864S, just checked what I ordered from Amazon. Can’t remember the details but it just took a few minutes to fit and was simple, even for a non-techie like me.

Not sure I’d survive suggesting MrsDSL would make a good counterweight!

Standard, at least for mine, was a skinny spare. Size is visible below. This is for my 17” shod SE, no idea if that’s suitable for 19” rims. But I do long hauls where skinny spare would be useless so have a full sized wheel and matching tyre, either summer or full winter. I loose a fair chunk of boot depth but I do get a fair bit of “stuff” storage out of the way, you can never have enough stuff. Plus wheel changed and I’m on my way, no 50mph/50 mile limits. Works nicely for me. Just bunged the sizes into a comp site and they are very similar.

I used to say that about annual wash at the service, now it’s every two years!

Is this the place to fess up that we’ve had our Karoq for 1 year and 4 days and not washed it yet? It’s due its first service in Jan, I’m sure it will wait until then.