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Only pretty certain? No prizes for spot the difference here.

An official Skoda one? No . No doubt someone will produce generic thing - it's the sort of accessory that Americans love.

The only similarity between a Karoq and Kodiaq rear door is they use the same handle. They look nothing like each other. You can get rear doors at scrapyards. You'll find them on Ebay. Use Google...

I don't get some of the above responses. You can have lights perfectly setup so they do not blind oncoming traffic. If however that car goes over a speed bump, or is travelling along a patchwork road repair or potholes. or one of you is on the brow or bottom of an incline, then there is absolutely nothing you can do to avoid the bright LED light blinding you - especially on wet roads. Any anti-dazzle implementation can only works when both cars approach each other at the same level. I've been saying this ever since LED's became popular. Another thing I keep saying is rear LEDs. Car sit with their brake lights on in traffic. They don't dazzle me ! If I sit in traffic and look directly into the rear light, yes they dazzle, but why would I look directly in to the LED light? I have no need to. When it's oncoming traffic however, the fact that I'm travelling at speed means I've no option but to look directly at the road in front of me. It's the headlights that have always blinded me, never once rear brake lights. Something else that really annoys me, and I say this as a cyclist myself... Cyclist lights. Some of them have way too powerful lights directed ahead with some cyclists additionally having a high beam LED mounted on their helmet - ( normally the lycra brigade ) I'd ban those lights for road use altogether. Those lights make no difference to what a cyclist can see, and I can see them even with an old syle lamp from the 1970's ! There absolutely no need for them. As I say, I'm saying this as a cyclist myself. Maybe we should return to what France used to do and have yellow lights.

I've bought many a pre-reg car - absolute no difference to buying new and yes there are many advantages. But I bet Skoda UK are not aware of that arrangement and would be furious if they found out. I wonder if that particular dealership's franchise is coming to an end anyway? The 3 month rule is there to stop exactly what you've just experienced happeneing. Basically it's devaluing the product. An advantage to you yes, but certainly not to the brand or other Octavia owners, something that all manufacturers want, to various degrees, to protect The garage that offered me the deal would continue to have a good relationship with VW because as far as the manufacturer ( the importer to be exact ) was concerned, the car still belonged to the dealership. I've known a few manufacturers to turn the screw on their dealers who break the rules, basically cancelling their contracts.

The MOT is completely independant from the servicing, so I'd keep it that way. An MOT is just an inspection which has to be completed to a certain standard, so any MOT garage can do it. Me? I wouldn't pay Skoda prices ( maximum MOT fee ) rather i shopped around. I went thru Groupon for a deal with ATS - cost me something like £25 for the MOT. ( I also had them change the brake fluid ). I've almost always had a service plan in place with my Skodas so they've always been main dealer serviced, bar one, and that's because the garage wouldn't service the car as I wanted it. So rather than argue with them, I simply went to a VW Specialist. Their std service wasn't any better and wasn't any cheaper than main dealers, but they did they work as I wanted it without question. Would I have it serviced at a fast-fit centre or none Vw specialst? Nope, but that's just me. The way I see it is if I was chosong between two used cars and they were identical in every way apart from one had a full main dealer service history and the other was a local garage, I'd prefer to buy the full dealer history car.

My father is 92 year old and for the past 30 years anyway, I'm the one who deals with his insurance. In those 30 years, not once has SAGA been in the ball park for compeditive quotes - even taking into account their offers on cashback websites. They provide me with a quote but like my father, it's always once of the more expensive. Perhaps quotes in Wales are cheaper because you can only drive at 20mph? ( only joking of course ). For the record, he's never had a point on his licence, never been caught for speeding and his last claim was in the early 90's ! Neither does he have any health issues. He's renewed with his current insurer for the past two years, it's around the £500 - he lives in a low risk area. If I use comparion sites, the cheapest quote for him is around £1400 and rises to eyewatering amounts. Not many will even quote him. His current insurer do not offer insurance if he was after a new policy, just because of his age. They don't offer insurance to over 85's now, but because he's a current policy holder, they send him a renewal quote each year. And I'll say something else about the insurance industry that made me sick. When my mother passed I was just going to leave his policy alone until renewal time, but he insisted I inform them of the changes. So my mum's name came off and I changed his status from 'Married' to 'Widower'. The fu&*er$ asked for more money as those changes increased his then current premium. Disgusting doesn't even begin to describe it, but that's the insurance indusrty for you. It has little to do with you, but everything to do with that pigeon hole they place you in. I'm actually surprised they don't ask the colour of your skin. Racism, sexism, homophobic? They'd use anything to judge your insurance risk if they could get away with it. In fact they did with sexism - perhaps they still do? It'd be interesting to see the quotes for 18year old twins living in the same house as their parents, who've just passed their test and each want the same car. Do you reckon the insurance would be cheaper for the girl than the boy? That certainly used to be the case.

Question - who currently owns the car? Back in 2013, the VW dealer over in Kirkcaldy ( Specialist ? ) tried that on with me. I told them where to go. The tax implications weren't my concern, but what if that dealer went in to administration in those three months? The car is registered to them, but they too had to be the owner under that 3mth ruling. The car would then be the property of the administrators ! As a creditor I'm now at the bottom of the list. I would never advice anyone to do similar. Followed the links given above. 2.0tdi SEL hatch DSG is listed as £26990. Go thru a broker such as DriveTheDeal and the same car brand new is £26905 so either go thru them or use that price to bargain with your local dealer. The car will be brand new registered in your name. I don't mention PHEV because DTD do not have PHEV listed which prompts the question, are Skoda dealers currently taking orders for them? And at 20,000 miles in 3 years, is there any benefit in chosing PHEV? I haven't done the sums but to claw back the initial PHEV premium, I'd have assumed someone would need to cover more miles than that? Just my thoughts .

Didn't you advice / challenge him?

I went from an Octavia estate which in my case, was more practical that the Superbs I looked at because it came with a twin level floor as std. I loved being able to store things away under the floor - and you had the full boot area to do so. I looked at alternatives to the Octavia and to be honest, I never found a better estate. Even the much lauded E-Class was less practical due to the way the underneath storage area was designed - and it didn't even come with a spare wheel. I agree, it would be better with removable seats, but all isn't lost. I have a boot full when we go camping, but remember there's the footwell area you can use. And I've altered the plastic upstand on the left side so that I can accomodate the paddles for our Kayak under floor. They're stored permanently in the car, out of the way underneath the floor, as is lots of other equipment. Mountain bike? If I were to carry the mountain bike in the Octavia I had to lay it flat and it's take up the whole floor. It also meant at leat one of the rear seats being lowered. I don't know how the Superb is designed or what height is available, but I can securely mount my mountain bike upright in the Kodiaq and still carry all our camping equipment and if need be still have two free rear seats ! It's really fantastic for my needs. I guess it really depends on how you use the car, but it defo has as many advantages over a large estate as it does disadvantages. I never thought a 40/20/40 rear seat arrangement would be any more practical than a 60/40 but in practice it's proved brilliant. I'd go as far to say that for me, a 40/20/40 rear seat is now an absoulte must. Put it another way, my car was 3yr old in November and I had a quick look around to see if there was anything else on the market before going down the route of spending more money on a 3 year old car. I couldn't find another car that I'd rather have. I like Dacias... I love the idea of the Jogger, but with all due respect, it's so barron back there no wonder seats can come out in under a minute. Dacia doesn't have to bother with fancy trims or insulation, or undrfloor storage or any electrical gizmos. I'd have said a Jogger was more comparible to a van that just happens to have extra seats? It stinks of cheapness which of course is part of it's charm. You ain't going to get away with that on a £45k car ( or whatever the L&K is )

Why contemplate buying a RHD car from the UK when you can just as easily buy a LHD from Belgium, Holland or Germany? Are they more expensive than the UK too? I know car prices in Ireland are extortionate.

Why not buy a car from a neighbouring country? I thought the great thing about this magical EU that remoaners salivate over, is you can trade cheaply with other member states?

Here in the UK it's normally late summer and then the period around mid November to mid December. You've not long missed out.

Given that he's changing from Summer to All-Season then it should be four.

I'm also curious to the significance of cheapest quote without a data recorder. It makes burger all difference to my quotes, but I always tick the 'are you willing to have a recorder' just in case - and I've been driving for over 40 years In your situation I'd have thought many insurers won't even offer you a quote if you refused a black box. Insurance is all done on risk and you're about as high a risk as there is. I doubt it matters a jot where abouts you live in Glasgow, the fact you drive anywhere around Glasgow makes you a higher risk. Also curious about buying a car when you haven't passed your test. Why buy a Fabia? Did you receive insurance quotes before you bought it? I'm not familiar with the Fabia but aren't most of the engines turbo-charged? That's not going to help a 1st time driver. What was it to insure basic Fiesta / Corsa as way of a comparison ? ( the typical 1st drivers car ). Insurance is all over the place right now but even for a first time driver, you tend to find prices drop significantly at age 21 and then 25. My only advice is to shop until you drop. Don't just use the comparison sites as they don't use all insurers. I'm not a fan of the site sponsors on here because it's my experience their insurance is tailored towards the high risk end of the market. You however are almost in the highest risk of all, so if you haven't already done so I would defo contact brokers like Adrian Flux and Chris Knott. If you haven't already done so then another tip to lower your insurance. The insurance industry gets away with gender stereotypes simply because they base their figures on risk, so forget all about your father but get a quote adding just your mother as an additional driver. I added my mum on my licence when I was 22 and she was still on it when I was 52. She lived 500 miles away from me, had long since given up driving, has never once driven any of my cars, but my insurance was still cheaper eachyear by having her name added as an additional driver. If I replaced my mums name with my fathers, ( both had perfect driving records ) the premium would increase by quite an amount. Apparently the insurance industry can get away with being sexist. Hope that helps.

You hit the nail on the head. As long as you look at it as a rental, then it makes sense. However there's a caveat to that. I haven't a clue how PCH works, but lets say it would have cost me £300 per month for the karoq. I had the car for 44 months so would have forked out £13200. Buying it outright cost me £2500. I wish there was one hard and fast rule we could all follow to find out what's best, but whatever way you look at it, it's a gamble. I don't think I'd ever buy a Merc outright agan - I defo made a mistake there. I should have done as you say, and effectively rented.

Yes, quite incredible. And add to that we wanted a small car just to run around town in so bought a little Toyota hybrid which mirrored the Karoq in price - listed at £30k and I ended up paying £25600 after discount ( was supposed to be £25k but there was a £600 hidden cost ). £30k for that car was IMO ridiculous but even more ridiculous, used examples were being advertised in the mid 30's because it was difficult to get a new one. The market was bonkers. Anyway, collected it in August so it cost me all of £3100 to change. Fast forward to today. Toyota have reduced their PCP incentive from £1800 to £600 ( a long sotry but this makes settling a Toyota financial services PCP early, completely pointless ), and there's not as much of a discount on the car. The best deal I can see that car for now is £27k, so with the Karoq being worth £12825, the changeover today would be £14175 😲 It's unbe-bloody-levable.... £14175 to change over today and it cost £3100 to change over just 5 months ago ! My Kodiaq was 3yr old in November and I had a quick look around to see if it was worth changing. I couldn't find anything suitable - I'm glad I didn't because the prices being asked for new / delivery miles cars was crazy. The Kodiaq has now come back to to 'normal' prices to now. There would be absolutley zero chance of me changing that car now, or at least not unless I needed to. I'm sure there are lots and lots of people that have been caught out buying when prices were inflated. And with new cars going up in price, depreciation is going to be eyewatering. Everyone is in a different position and for me I've never seen the benefit of PCP, but I'll say one thing for it - at least you know how much is going out each month and the min the car will be worth at the end of term.

I've been watching and reading a few articles about how the price of EV's have plummeted. Which get's me a little annoyed for three reasons: 1: These articles and videos are mostly by armchair expert speculators with no practical experience themselves, and 2. Why do people always use extremes as the norm ? 3. The forecourt prices certainly haven't reflected these recent drops. For all sorts of reasons, used car prices have been all over the place since Covid struck. One commentator blamed this, that and t'other for the price of EV's plummeting but really? Are the prices of used ICE and hybrids not plummeting too? Let's find out. So rather than listen to these armchair experts speculate and look at their CAP value books which themselves are just guides, why not use a real world example to see how the market has chaged. I sold our Karoq in the summer, so lets use that. 1. I bought the car Nov 2019 for a fraction under £25k after discount ( the list back then was a few quid under £30k.) 2. I sold the car to a large online retailer back in late summer 2023 for £22500. That meant the car depreciated £2500 in 3.5yrs. I of course was very happy,but new that wasn't normal, it was an insane price. The retailer put the car up for sale at £24k. That was 5 months ago, almost to the day. 3. I've just obtained another quote to sell that car - I added 2000 miles to the mileage as that's all it'd have done in that time. How much do you reckon the same dealer has quoted me online? £13825 😲 So in the past 5 months, our old Karoq has dropped £8675 in value. Ouch ! These large price drops definitely don't just apply to EVs. 4. But it's not a horrendous drop, rather it's just the market returning to normal. The car originally listed at £30k four years ago, and it's now worth say £14k which represents depreciation of around 45-49% - perfectly normal ( maybe a little better than normal considering it's a Skoda ). So what's all the fuss about used prices 'nose-diving' ? Imagine having budgeted for a new car - you placed your order say 6mths ago, you're about to take delivery, and you find your current car is now worth around £8000 less than you thought it would be. Ouch !!! What about dealers - do we have sympathy for them, after all they may have stock they bought at a high price and haven't been able to shift. Err, not from me. I've just looked on Autotrader for cars similar to the car I sold and which I would have been offered £13825 if I were to sell it today. The dealers are asking from £20k for it. ( some asking much higher ) So one tip for anyone looking to buy a car right now, especially a used car, is know exactly how much it's actually worth. Yes the dealer may have bought it when the prices were high, then again, they may have bought it recently hence there's a potential huge profit margin you can negotiate with. Some of the prices still being asked are eyewateringly expensive.

I appreciate the road noise and softer ride observation but I think you may have just contributed to that 'general car forum content' yourself. Having owned an Edition with 19" alloys for almost four years, the tyres never once shred, warped, burst or blistered and as far as I'm aware, nobody elses has either. What made you think that? Some members have changed tyres to all-seasons which cured the noise issue although the all seasons I chose ( Maxxis ) didn't on my car. The thinner tyre wall means the alloys are more prone to kerbing, that's all.

Honest to God, you've included a smily face but forgive me for not seeing the funny side of it. We can all reverse cars, nobody NEEDS a camera to reverse, but it does act as an aid to assist reversing. With all the best will in the world, you cannot possibly see everything around your car when reversing. Why not google 'blind spot' and then think about apologising to those, who by implication, you've accused of not being able to reverse their cars.

Ebay ?

Ebay. Apparently you can also get them in A4 format? Whether that's official Skoda or not I don't know but people also selling orginals. I agree, online manuals have their negatives, but they also have benefits too.

You'd only have to declare if you move away from 215/50/18. 215/50/18 isn't that common a tyre TBH - it's mostly used by VW group. My Ateca used Brigestone Turanza 215/50/18 92W. I think that's the spec for other Karoqs as well as T-Rocs and Audi's that run 18" as well. Just had a look at the current pricelist - the full spec isn't listed which is unusual. My educated guess is the manufacturer couldn't supply 92W spec tyres at that particular time of the manufacturing run, so they supplied 96W. Or perhaps they produced too many 96W and wanted to get rid of them... who knows. But it's defo unusual for a 1.5. W means it's rated to 168mph, V means it's rated up to 149mph. Even if you were to take your karoq to a German autobahn, it's not capable of that speed. In fact if you did take your car to a German autobahn tomorrow, German law says your car must have winter tyres on, none of which are 96W XL. It's best forgetting about the load index in this case. Current Karoq brochure: Edit - just checked the 2019 Karoq brochure which I still have. All 18" wheels were as above - 215/50/18 92W with the exception of the 2tdi 4x4 which was 95W. If a 2.0Tdi 4x4 didn't need 96W, you can bet your last penny a 1.5 doesn't. Hope that helps.

I'd be a tad concerned with Q3 because if your goal is to sell the current 18" tyres and alloys, then I'd have thought that's likely to work out far more expensive than just replacing the tyres. You really would be limiting the car's appeal when you come to sell if you're trying to flog a higher end model with basic ( wrong ) alloys on it. Worse still if they're steel wheels ! I'd have thought you'd be much better off buying 16" rims + tyres now, replace those original 18" alloys when you sell then sell the 16" rims and tyres. Or keep them for your next car. Me? I've just had a very quick look around at prices. What are you hoping to save price wise by going down a size or two alloys? The price differentials don't seem to justify changing the alloys. For example, Camskill are currently selling Maxxis 215/45/18 All seasons for £100. So that'd be £400 + £20 delivery + say £15 a corner to have them fitted so just under £600 ? How much are you reckoning on spending on tyres for 16" rims? By the way, I had 215/45/18 on my Seat Ateca. It seems to be a popular size with VW group cars, unfortunately not with other manufacturers which is likely to be the reason tyre suppliers can place a slight premium on that size. When I had my car ( 2016 ), there were only a couple of manufacturers sold all-season in that size.

If your local garage says it's the DSG, and if the Skoda dealer said it's the DSG, then what makes you believe it's something else? You're right, it could be something else, but if all evidence points at it being the DSG why would you think differently? Doesn't the fact the car 'jolts' make that probability even stronger? If you don't trust your local Skoda dealer then have it checked by another Skoda dealer - or any VW / SEAT / AUDI dealer or a VAG specialist. And if it is the DSG at fault, then depending on that fault, it may be able to be repaired rather than spending £3-4K for it to be replaced altogether. ( Why have they quoted you £3-4K to fix if all they've done is run diagnostics? What fault was being reported? ). Depending on the fault, a DSG can be repaired rather than be replaced: There are others but to use but one example see https://www.autogearbox.co.uk/dsg-gearbox-repairs/ However wouldn't you agree it's pointless speculating until you know what the problem is?