Phutters

You’re most welcome, Rodders. It’s not just that the other search terms were a bit oblique - it was quite difficult fitting all the words in that tiny little box.

Genuine Kamiq rubber mats. I tried 'relatively inexpensive black non-carpet raised-edge floor coverings for small Czech Republic-manufactured pretend sports utility vehicle', but it was a bit oblique.

. Here. There are lots. .

. I realise I was getting a bit dog-eared, but now I feel positively decrepit. I thought this was the old-fashioned way. .

I might be involved in covert night time surveillance (might not be - can't say), and the last thing I want when killing the engine is to be bathed in light. Snipers, see. Can't be too careful. .

. I apologise. It was too sweeping. I should have been more specific. What I should have said was that I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of a retractable tow bar retrofit (like the factory job) runs to four figures. I base that on a couple of quotes from two separate franchises a month or two ago. My own experience of quote-massaging relates to when I got a straightforward removable tow bar ((no fancy dan canbus gubbins) fitted to an Audi allroad a few years back. I saved north of two hundred notes by going directly to the tow bar fitters that the dealership used themselves. Two hundred quid for an invoice on a bit of proper Audi paper and having one of their 'technicians' drive it a couple of miles each way to the fitter's gaff and back? Now that's taking the mickey. And it's a not infrequent occurrence. .

. It does, doesn't it? And not least because the blokes who fit it won't be going anywhere near a Scotchlok. .

. For what it's worth, the first thing I'd do is ring PF Jones and ask them. The last thing I'd do is entrust this to a dealership without speaking to PF Jones first. The likelihood is that they will indeed sub this job out to the towbar fitter round the back of the industrial estate, and they will almost certainly add a little something to the bill for their trouble. I can't help thinking, with all due respect, that the prices suggested above may be a little on the light side - in my experience the cost of a dealer-fit (actually dealer-fitted and not sent round the corner to Towbars'R'Us) is likely to run into four figures rather than three. Labour rates at well in excess of a hundred notes an hour soon add up. .

. Champion. That gives me the measurement I need. Thank you. .

. Thanks Chris That's one of the ones I looked at. It's just that I need to be sure it lifts high enough. I'll admit to being an idle git by asking all the geezers on here instead of going outside and cranking up one corner with the factory jack, but doing that would involve all kinds of b*ggering about swapping cars round. The Fiat lives on a bit of level parking over the road, but the Karoq is halfway up a steep, tight driveway. If I so much as think about taking the handbrake off it'll hurtle down the drive, cross the road and demolish the wall of the sitting room of Brian's house opposite. Though it has no windows, this wall is hard to the road. Brian would be okay with that, but Mrs Brian has a fuse that's about a quarter of an inch long. She gave me a mouthful for offering to clean a set of genitalia that some feckless yob had sprayed on their outside wall. Can't win, can you? That's why I'm asking on here. Life is complicated, init. .

. Thanks. And as far as the other issue is concerned, it's difficult when you're the latest in a long line of pathological liars. It's in the genes. My granddad told some absolute whoppers. Couldn't trust him as far as you could throw him. .

I have to admit that the bit about Bugattis and Lamborghinis wasn't strictly true. Actually, it was a proper load of horse feathers. I only added that to try and make the thread slightly more interesting, even if it was a somewhat disingenuous attempt. I'm mindful that nobody likes a smart*rse (or a braggard), so it's only fair to say for the record that our other car is a ten year-old Fiat 500. And that's so light that Mrs Phutters (who is blessed with arms like tractors) can hold it aloft for nearly twenty minutes without even going pink, which is plenty long enough to rotate all four tyres and have a brew. . P.S. On an unrelated subject, do you have to have done a certain number of posts before you can edit what you've written, or is there a button somewhere that I've overlooked? .

Is there anyone on here who has used a trolley jack on a Karoq? After years of either blagging my neighbour's long-expired (and saggy) trolley jack or latterly taking my life in my hands by using the one that comes with the car, I've decided to get a decent one of my own. This is where I could do with some help. Needless to say I want to get one which goes high enough to get the appropriate wheel well clear of the floor - it'd be pants if I bought one which ran out of lift leaving the tyre catching on the deck. All the cars I've had before have been lower to the ground than this here Karoq (McLarens, Lamborghinis, Bugattis and Ferraris, obvs), so I don't know what maximum lift I need. I can measure the ground clearance at the jacking point, but that doesn't really help too much because I don't know until I try it how much the wheel drops as the shock absorber relaxes. There are some things I'm happy to get on a trial and error basis, but having to send trolley jacks back would get old pretty quickly. Anyone got any sage words? Thanks Pete .

You can adjust the maximum lift of the tailgate so it doesn't wallop your garage door, but needless to say it'll stop at that height whether it's in the garage or not, so I guess it's only a partial solution. I'm not sure about a solution to stopping it from squashing Ken Fowler's cat when it's closing, but you'd assume that there was a force limiter of some kind built into the struts. .

For what it's worth, I reckon you're on a hiding to nothing trying to get anything done under warranty. I don't think there's much argument that diamond cut alloys like these are more susceptible to the ravages of winter and kerbing damage than plainer ones, but having them is a choice you make when you buy the car - most peeps choose the car they do because they like the way it looks, and its wheels are very much a part of that. If you pick a car with them you have to take the rough with the smooth and do what you can to mitigate the damage that just getting in the car and driving it is likely to cause. There's only so much mollycoddling you can do if you want to use the car for its primary purpose and not have it spend all its time on your drive under a hand-crocheted Angora blanket, only lifting it off gingerly to wax and polish every other warm and windless day. I don't see how you could argue that the wheels you chose are unfit for purpose - alloys like this have been around for quite a while now, and people have been complaining about their vulnerability for just as long, so maybe there's a case to be made for saying that forewarned is forearmed. As it happens, our Karoq has the same wheels. I think they're dead smart, and they were certainly a major factor in me choosing a Sportline in the first place. And I fully expect to be doing what the OP did; washing the car and cussing out loud when cleaning off the muck reveals a whole new rash of chips, but it is what it is. It comes with the territory. What I will do (when we finally get the car back from its three-month holiday in the dealership's back yard thanks to the massive delays in the factory supply of replacement parts) is put a set of front mud flaps on it. That the damage to the OP's alloys manifests itself only on the leading edges of the rear wheel spokes is pretty incontrovertible evidence that the damage is being caused by stones flicked up from the front wheels, and my (admittedly rudimentary) reasoning says that a pair of mud flaps will reduce the amount of crap thrown directly into the path of the rear wheels. Mud flaps aren't the most beautiful things in the world but they aren't that horrible, so it's a concession to practicality I'm happy to make. I did the same thing to the Audi I had before after noticing stone damage on the spokes of its rear wheels (none on the fronts), and it certainly seemed to have helped. .

You might be a bit optimistic in thinking that Skoda (or any other maker) takes much notice of what happens on forums. Until any particular issue (whether it's a leaky sunroof, chattering wipers or pants infotainment software) has been investigated by a franchise dealer, Skoda have no choice but to regard everything posted on these forums as anecdotal. There is no way they would investigate everything that appears on here or elsewhere without it being verified by the dealer network first. They simply couldn't do it. The range of problems - from a minor misfire to a massive malfunction - is far too great. Jumping up and down, tearing your hair out and using every asterisk you can muster in your posts will make you feel better for having vented your spleen, but it won't expedite a resolution to the problem - to achieve that, you'll have to take your motor to a dealer and let someone stick a diagnostic terminal up its bottom, like it or not. And you'll probably have to suffer the ignominy of being treated like a clueless muppet while you're there and left to walk out feeling as if you've been right royally fobbed off, but at least your beef will have been entered into the system. For what it's worth, I've got a bit of experience of this very thing with our previous car, a 2017 A3. What the issue was isn't really relevant; suffice it to say that over the course of several months, dozens of phone calls to Audi Customer Service and a whole raft of irate posts on audi-sport.net, it transpired that hardly any of the dozens people on the forum who were quite justifiably hacked off about this particular bugbear had actually taken their car to a dealership to have the problem verified. And without that verification, sod all happens. I made a point of asking to speak to the same geezer at Customer Services whenever I rang up, partly because he would have heard about it and would hopefully remember, and partly to ask him how many actual bona fide reports he had on his system. The number was woefully small, and it has to be a reasonably big number (certainly well into double figures) before the whole thing gets escalated internally within the organisation to the point where a boffin actually starts trying to sort it out. I gave up in the end. I haven't got the Audi any more. Not because of that issue, but because I quite fancied a Karoq Sportline. And that Karoq Sportline has been VOR at the dealership since the middle of November with a rear differential full of swarf from new. Hey ho. .

Our MY2021 Sportline 2.0TSI has 225/45 19s. They're no more likely to make your dentures fall into your lap than the 225/45 17s on the A3 it replaced. Well I say that, but I can't confirm it absolutely; the car has been at the dealership since the 16th of November (three and a half days after driving it excitedly away from the showroom, brand spankers) with its innards hanging out courtesy of a rear differential which was faulty from the factory. The replacement diff has been on back order since the 19th of November. Long story. Long wait. Diminishing patience. Sorry, I've wandered off-topic. The closest replacement tyres (in terms of diameter, and therefore speedometer accuracy) are 255/40 R19s, but they are getting on for an inch wider than the stock 225/45s. While the extra inch in width would undoubtedly help in terms of protecting those whopping alloys, I'm not sure if they would be a bit too wide. It's a kind of academic question at the moment anyway - I'm in no mood to shell out six hundred quid (and the rest) for four new tyres when the original ones have barely had the little rubber nubbles worn off them. .

Indeedy. Easy to check here.

Put the details of your car and your caravan into this. .

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Mmmf I hope the paint on the seats doesn't come off on these moleskin driving trousers. They were quite expensive.

Rather gloomy news here, I'm afraid - I heard from our dealer that transport is downing tools on Thursday until early December. They'd raised a transport order on the 27th of October, but that's as far as it's got. I've no idea if this is an industry-wide transport hiatus, but I imagine it might well be. I could always ask on the Skoda chat thing, but I can barely see through the tears. Phooey.

Good morning Mr CJJE I'm in an almost identical situation. And an almost identical car, as it happens. Just a different colour. Our car has been enjoying the delights of the arse-end of the car in front in a sea of other cars in Grimsby since early week, and despite me pestering those jolly helpful peeps on the Skoda chat thing every few minutes, it's still there. I asked the same question of our supplying dealer this morning, and they confirmed what I'd hoped would be the case: "Good morning Mr Extremely Important Customer* We have had a brief meeting this morning regarding the new lockdown coming into force from Thursday. They are looking into click & collect for handovers. We are hoping that we will be able to still hand cars over as all paperwork can be done remotely. There are talks of having the cars either inside the handover bay or outside of it & the keys will be in a pot for you to collect. We are able to video the controls to our customers so we don't need to be sitting next to you to show you how it works. Once I know more about this I will let you know, but all being well, we will still be able to get you into your new Skoda. Kind regards Beyoncé* Sales Executive" * I've edited the names here in the interests of privacy.