Mick-Cork

Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone could help me on this one. I have a 2018 Karoq with the Columbus system (MIB2 I presume). It still has the 2018 maps on it so I've downloaded the 2020 update, unzipped, and ready for install. I'm using a USB stick. Rather than update all countries I'm considering just updating for Ireland and the UK if that's possible. My question, if i delete all the other country files beforehand will the system simply just take what's on the USB stick and update those, leaving the other countries untouched. I guess I could just try it, but if anyone has done something similar it might save me faffing about / wasting time doing things twice. Thanks, Mick

@mac11irl Ha, we probably gave Olly a bit of an easy time on the cash side, but to be fair the car was a decent price before we started anyway. Arrived today as planned, and any lingering doubts totally melted away. It's a 3 year old car but if you didn't know you'd swear it was brand new. Must be a combination of one very careful owner and some good prep by RMP. Somehow it even still had that new smell about it, everything perfect inside and out. Seriously impressed. Took it for a couple of spins locally and any reservations about the small 1.0 engine vanquished. It'll be perfect for our driving needs. Pulls fine around local urban and rural roads. Looking forward to a longer 130 mile round journey tomorrow over the Cork Kerry hills and back. Long and short of it - I'm liking Skoda! :)

@mac11irl Small world, or maybe small country Yep, and begins with O. He called this morning to confirm car being delivered down tomorrow lunchtime so we're looking forward big time I've got to ask though, have you recently traded in a 1.0 Karoq in quartz grey, now that would be a head banger! They've got a lot of good reviews and it sounds like you're happy with them as well so all very positive so far. Here's a pic...

Ah timing! Hi mac11 We're down near Ballydehob, west of Skibbereen and before Schull. Bantry to the north of us. Up in the hills and yep you can still swim in the pot holes The dealer is in Clonmel! You'll probably guess which one as can't imagine there's more than one main dealer in the area? (Not sure if I should be mentioning names here yet?)

Thanks for the welcome Mike, and nice to hear you have good memories of the place Ah, there's a fella like that around every corner here, they don't miss a beat! I see mac11irl is from Tipp, that's the county the car is coming from so in all likelihood he's probably aware of the dealer. They seem to have a lot of good reviews and i'm hoping that bodes well. I'm wondering whether to buy a 2 or 3 year service plan, I'll probably ring one of the local dealers up and get a price for a one-off service as a comparison. It's a change from how we've been operating over the last number of years with older cars - I'd pop down to the cousin, stick the car on his lift, and we'd just do whatever was req'd to get through an NCT (MOT). That occasionally included things like securing the bumper with tie-wraps, cutting brake guards out of old tin, and other various improvisations! Quite good fun in a way, especially when you'd get that wry smile from the tech at the test centre

I've never owned a Skoda, driven one, and only very rarely been a passenger in one, but about to become the owner of a used Karoq We live in Ireland (West Cork) and I've bought online from a Skoda dealer over 100 miles away, delivery expected this Saturday. It's a 2018 1.0 TSI Style with 24k miles on the clock, Skoda approved with 24 months extended warranty, roadside assistance etc. Owned from new by an elderly single gent who, it seems, was the only person ever in the car. The seats still had their garage protection covers on when he traded it back in (for another Skoda) and he'd even put some covering over the drivers door handle to keep it clean. The video and pics from the dealer show it as looking in excellent condition - fingers crossed! Our criteria was something with a higher ride height, cheap to insure, tax, and put fuel in, comfort orientated before performance, easy to drive, decent brand reputation, hopefully reliable, and good for urban and rural travel (we're 60 miles away from the nearest motorway). In our early 60s I wasn't looking for a hot hatch! although until recently we were driving a red 2 door golf sport with low profiles, tints, black roof, and other boy racerish make-up on it Time to grow up maybe! Have had plenty of new company cars of all flavours over the years, but only ever bought old ones myself. I'd narrowed our search down to either a Peugeot 3008, Mazda CX 5, possibly a Vitara, but in the end the Karoq won out. It ticked most of the boxes, well on paper anyway. It's definitely strange to purchase a car without seeing it in the flesh, not to mind not taking a test drive, so it's a mixture of excited anticipation and a little trepidation! I'll post back after we've had a chance to drive it, poke around in the corners, and generally get to know it - I have a sense of optimism on this one and am hoping we'll enjoy it for what it is.