Routemaster1461

This is best practice, but not always practicable. You would need to jack the car three times instead of once, potentially increasing danger

With the position of the switch, I find that I can knock it off my normal auto setting with my knee when getting into the car, particularly when my wife had been driving previously and had had the seat well forward.

On many cars, including the Karoq, the DRLs act as the sidelights, so there are none to go on. Frequently the DRLs in sidelight mode are less bright than when acting as DRLs, however, as far as I can see the DRLs have only one intensity.

Rather odd. My non-facelift Edition has electric seats and tables. What was the reason for wanting no tables? Ours are rarely used as we don't make too many longish journeys with back-seat passengers.

Just for clarity, a DPF removes ash and soot from the exhaust gases. The soot is removed by the regeneration, often aided by a catalyst. In the case of PSA vehicles this is aided by injection of EOLYS fluid into the fuel tank. The fluid contains cerium compounds with lower the temperature requird to burn off the soot. I don't know whether VAG use a similar method, or whether it simply relys on getting the filter hotter. The problem with DPFs is ash. Ash is formed from the sulphur and phosphorus compounds found in oil. This is why low SAPs oils are required. This is not now confined to diesels as most, if not all, very recent petrol cars are fitted with a GPF. The ash cannot be burned out of the filter, and this may autimately block the filtedr, requiring either removing the filter and cleaning or a replacement filter.

Found it! For speed limiter, press the arrow button, bottom left on the right hand side of the wheel, then scroll using the roller to Assist systems, press the arrow again, you can then scroll to speed limiter. I assume you set it using the cruise stalk to the left of the wheel.

In my Karoq you can set a speed limiter. It is done via the buttons on the right of the steering wheel and displays on the virtual cockpit, but it is a PITA to set up.

I have investigated further. There is nothing new for the Karoq. However, I've been using the other car for a couple of days. If you start the car with the phone connected by usb, the phone screen opens, all contacts and history are available. If you then go to google maps, that opens, and I then can't operate the phone at all via the screen. The phone button does nothing. When the phone is only connected by bluetooth the phone works fine. So I'm pretty sure that my phone update has caused the issue. I have been through all of the phone settings I can find and all looks ok. I think I will just have to live with the issue until, hopefully, a further update sorts it out.

I have an eco icon which tells me when my car goes into 2 cylinder mode. I have a driving mode called eco. What is the third eco? Are you referring to stop/start?

I think it is! If you select the individual mode and then select change, you can change the aircon settings from normal to eco. So I would imagine that setting the mode to eco would set the aircon to eco as well, otherwise the option would be pointless.

Sorry, to clarify mine is switched off and isn't active next time I start the car. I switched it off about a year ago, and it hasn't been used since. I am just wondering if it could theoretically be modified by a software update against my will so it will not stay off.

Don't think that is the issue. I tried google maps, and some new screens came up, but it did connect. Took the phone to the other non-VAG car and it doesn't work at all. I'm not even sure it is paired. If I press the phone icon, all I get is google maps/android auto. The phone updated the other day, I'm beginning to wonder whether the Skoda update was coincidental. For info, the contacts and recents are still on the phone.

Not yet. I have the phone paired in another car and I haven't checked whether that is ok, to rule out a phone issue. Unpairin and repairing is my next move, but I can't easily find out how to delete the phone in the menus. I'm just going to trawl through the handbook (yes, I have a paper one) to see how to delete.

Apologies if this is in the wrong section. It concerns my Karoq and a Columbus infotainment unit, but it is probably relevant to anyone with a Columbus system, or perhaps to other systems as well. My 2021 Karoq Edition has lost its phone contacts. This is following, and possibly a result of a software update. The phone is still paired and will send calls via the screen dialling function and recieves calls. If I try to use contacts or call history, these are empty with a message to say 'click to reimport' or similar. This does nothing at all. There doesn't seem to be an issue with my phone, switch off and on made no difference. Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue and what the solution might be.

Had another update. The long term fuel consumtion has reset to zero, may or may not be down to the update. All phone contact data gone, but phone still appears to be paired. It asked me if I wanted to reimport the contacts, but then refused to do so. I had just started driving home after a long day and it was pouring with rain so I couldn't stop to try it stationary, but I will do so today. Other than that I haven't noticed anything.

On my 2021 car the lane assist switches off. I wonder whether it would be possible for manufacturers to enable this with a simple software update' either remotely ot at the dealer, and sneak inability to disable into cars. I really hope not!

The little ECO on the dash lights when the car goes into 2 cylinder mode. On mine you can hear a change in exhaust note when you run on very light throttle. My Karoq has 4 driving modes, normal, eco, sport and custom (or similar). The car starts in normal mode, and I often switch to sport, which, as I have a manual box, seems to make best part of no difference apart from slighty stiffening the steering. I have never tried eco so I don't know what it does, but it may limit the use of aircon. If you try custom, it brings up a menu where you can set individual parameters to how you like them. It may be possible to look at this menu to get an idea of what is sporty, normal and eco.

It used to be recommeded that you could sound your horn to give warning when approaching a blind bend or blind hump-backed bridge (daylight hours only). For this to be effective the horn needs to be loud enough for approaching drivers to be able to hear the horn over the noise of their engine and potentially loud music.

I'm not sure whether my Karoq had an update a few months ago, but some of my fuel/mileage data changed, and the ambient lighting changed from its normal red to, iirc, default white.

There is already a huge thread covering this.

I'm not sure that the info about Travel Assist is very different from the Adaptive Cruise on my Karoq. The car generally knows the correct speed limit. If you set my car to a 50mph cruise on a 60mph road the car will happily go along at 50mph. When I reach a 30 limit the car will brake, often quite uncomfortably to 30mph before the sign, often starting to brake before the signs become visible. When it then goes to 20 the car slows to 20, then as the limit increases the speed invreases. Infortunately at the start of the next 60 limit stretch it will speed up to 60 mph, not the 50 mpg that I had previously set. It will also give warnings of approaching bends and slow, uncomfortably and rather late, to the speed it warns about. Note the caveat that as my car is manual there has to be intervention to change gear, a DSG car will change gear. From what I've experienced the car can pick up its limit info from two sources, the signs and the internal maps. It seems to be OK most of the time. There is one peice of road that does confuse it. I use one stretch of 70mph dual carriageway with a 70 limiy. There is a slip road and right at the start of the slip road there are 40 limit signs. Despite me wanting to carry on down the 70 road the car, in its wisdom decides that I need to slow to 40 and slams the brakes on, which I consider somewhat dangerous.

When discussing the mpg on a run like the op posted, I would like to point out something, MPG seems to be vey depebdant on temperature. I regularly drive to SW London, about a 100 mile trip. When temperatures are above 5 degeers my Karoq will achieve best part of 50 mph, ususlly better going than returning. On Sunday (the day that Heathrow had the issues with cold and deicing) I only managed 44mpg. My other (non VW group) petrol car invariably gives me a computer reading of at least 50mpg, this week is struggling to do more than 45mpg.

As you are coming from Peugeot, you may be aware that the Adblue system on PSA cars have given rise to many expensive issues. On those, an Adblue warning that does not go away when the tank is full is either down to an exhaust sensor (~£4-500) or a failed pump (£1000+). It also means that after ~1500 miles the car won't start. I don't know whether there are similar issues with VW group sensors and/or pumps, but if the new sensor doesn't fix it, you need to have at least a good discussion with the agent. Interestingly, I don't remember seeing many Adblue questions on Skoda forums. The problems that I had with my PSA diesel car, and the attitude of many councils towards diesel were the main reasons why my Karoq is petrol (apart from that diesel was not avaiable). I was lucky to get 54 mpg out of our PSA car, and I get low 50s out of our Karoq. On a quick calculation base on my local filling station, if I get 50mpg from petrol I need to get 59mpg from diesel to be the same fuel cost per mile. I was happy with the way my diesel car ran most of the time, but I'm wondering, if they can't sort out your issue, whether a petrol one may be better.

Headlight washers. Try using the windscreen washer when the headlights are on.

You don't need toworry about it for an MOT. Only front wipers are tested.It is not a case of 'if it is fitted it must work properly'.