daviemck2006

My mate has a Q5, the same age as my Karoq. We bought them within weeks of each other, both used and similar mileage. Both have ran for coming on for two years with us returning similar mileage and with similar servicing although his service cost him more. My Karog is an sel and is better equipped and better finished than his Q5. His Q5 is bigger but it is in reality not very noticeable. I far prefer my Skoda to his Audi. I'm biased though because of course I'm going to like my car better. The big surprise it that he to also likes my car better. And when you take into account I paid 17 grand for mine from a car supermarket type dealer, he paid over 10 grand more from Audi. I have a full dealer service history, he has not. He got one years warranty, not needed, I got 3 months, also not needed. Therfore my opinion is get the soda. However that is on 6 year old now car, new may be a different story. To be honest I would not be disappointed having either of them. Would I pay more for image personally, that would be a no, but make up your own mind.

Glad you are happy with it Dave. Mine is slightly older being a 2019 model registered last week of 2018 and it's a sel. I've had it a year and 9 months, it's cost me one service, one mot, and discs and pads all round. Needs two tyres soon. I love it and can't think of a better car for me.

The op should go look at 235/50×18. That's the size I run on my summer tyres and I need two replacing before these go on and the prices I am seeing are not too bad.

I personally will not remap any car I own again. I have had 4 done and every one has blown the turbo costing lots of money to fix them. That's just my experience. I have thought about mapping my karoq, but only for it's towing abilities. However I do not really to a lot and thecar is fine on its own so I will put up with the slight lack of go towing.

I got a £1500 deposit contribution for buying my 4 year old Karoq from a large retail group. As soon as I picked the car up and got it home I payed it off. The dealer would not take a penny off the price, which was already good so I effectively got a £1500 discount. I do not know or even care who lost the £1500, I gained it lol

Certainly wouldn't fit the smaller size tyre. That will ruin the ride and leave you at danger of kerbing your wheels, or buckling them on the potholes that are everywhere. Secondly, and it's only my opinion, I would not buy Bridgestone tyres, ever. My Karoq came with them at between 4mm and 6 mm. They were promptly replaced with vredestien winters and I run a different set of wheels in summer with kormoran summer tyres. They are apparently made by Michelin an are good on my karoq.

My 1.6tdi sel dsg was registered last week of 2018 and I bought it June 2023. It's about 66k on the clock. The Bridgestone tyres on it were crap and I changed the wipers a week after owning it. Otherwise it's been one service at skoda and new discs and pads all round. No rattles or squeaks, it's near enough a perfect car for me. Even if I were to replace it I couldn't think of anything better. I have no intentions of changing it though as long as it just needs service items

My rear brakes are being done next Monday. The garage says should be less than an hour labour, and it does need electronics applied to the calipers. I'm like the op here, I hate paying a garage to do stuff I could do by myself, but can't do now due to fibromyalgia and constant sciatica giving pain 24/7. Hence the reason I have a karoq dog, it's super easy to drive.

My reardiscs and pads need replacing just now at 68k, but the car had done 52k when I bought it and I have no idea if they have been changed before. Skoda garage quoted over £300 to replace them. I got a set of discs and pads from a motor factors for £71, not changed them yet as I need a computer to tell the car they are changed because of the electronic parking brake.

I haven't got a decent obd reader so this may get thrown at a garage to do. I'm too old and knackered too sit outside in the winter doing brakes anyway.

I need to change the discs and pads on the rear of the Karoq. Are the calipers wind back ones or simply push the pistons in. Are there any special steps to take because of the automatic handbrake? Does the car have to be told by VAG.com or whatever that they are changed? I dod the fronts recently and they were straightforward but im a bit wary of the rears as i dont have a computer if the car needs telling. Thanks in advance Davie

I'm 40 miles north of Aberdeen. As previously stated I have two sets of wheels. Personally I think all season tyres are a compromise, not the best in summer as they want to be winters, and not the best in winter as they want to be summers. My winter wheels are the standard 18" alloys on the car from the factory with vredestien winter extreme tyres in the factory 215/50×18 size. My summer wheels are a set of vw scirocco 18 inch wheels which are 1 inch wider than standard and much nicer wheels shod with 2 Michelin primacy tyres due replacing and two kormoran summer suv tyres and the sizes are 235/50x18. For me this works well, changed the wheels in November and will change back in spring. I will probably buy 2 new kormoran soon so I have a full set the same for summer. As far as I know kormoran are owned and made by Michelin but are a much more affordable tyre. The two I have were on the rear of my previous yeti, and been on the rear of the karoq and have done nearly 30,000 miles between the two cars and have no perishing, cracking and still have 6mm tread. I wouldn't use steelies on a nice car, if you look on Gumtree, Ebay or even marketplace you will seeloads of decent 17or 18 inch alloys with winters on much cheaper than you will get wheels and tyres from skoda. Anything that says vw, Audi,seat, skoda 5 x 112 and 17 or 18 will fit straight on to your Karoq. Your car will still look nice with decent wheels not rusty steelies which new skoda wheels will be after a couple years up here

Last year I put new winters on the front of my Karoq leaving the summers on the back. Big mistake! The first snowfall and the car was undrivable, losing the rear even at town speeds in a straight line. Straight to the tyre shop and got another two matching winters on. I have two sets of wheels, the summer set have two different makes of tyres without any problem, the winter set have 4 identical vredestien winters on and are great. If you can't do two different sets of wheels then 4 identical all season tyres would be the way to go.

I totally agree with the above. I put two vredestien winters on the front of my Karoq 2wd last winter and left the Bridgestone summers on the back, as they still had about 5mm. Thefirst time I encountered snow the car was almost undriveable wagging it's tail about like an over excited dog. Promptly went to tyre garage and bought two more vredestiens at £155 each and ditched the crap Bridgestones. The car behaves itself perfectly with 4 winters the same all round. My summer wheels need two tyres so there are 2 worn Michelin and two kormoran summer suv tyres which were on the rear. They will go on theffront and two new the same on the back.

I usually use my DQ200 with stop start off in normal and leave it to its own devices. Except when towing when I use manual mode out of towns, but auto in the town. It's at 66k just now and working perfectly. It has a full soda history, I asked the dealer last service about a fluid change, they said I would be wasting money. I also asked about timing belt they said the same. However I an intending doint the belt at 80k and gearbox fluid at 100k if I still own it then.

I dislike Michelin tyres. Any I have had have found to be very poor wet grip. I've just removed two cross climate from my karoq and put on the original wheels shod with vredstein winters. The other wheels which were on have two kormoran suv summer tyres at about 6mm and the cross climates were on the front with about 4mm. They both have very noticeable perishing after 3 years use, approx 20k on two different cars and recently are pathetic in the wet, wheelspinning all over the place and understeering too. There will be two new tyres fitted before that wheels get fitted in the spring. I will probably fit uniroyal rain expert or vredestien summers, the new on the back and the kormoran sun on the front. .

Up on the north coast in Macduff

Hi Goz, I'm also from Aberdeenshire

I bought a cat s repaired seat Leon a few years ago. It was about 1/2 the price of a clean one. There were no signs of the repair, it got MOT at my trusted tester before I put it on the road, who couldn't see any signs of a repair. When the v5 arrived there was nothing on it about a cat write off. I had no problems insuring it, declaring it was a cat car, and it ran perfectly for2&1/2 years with me before being sold to the fast food place where I worked. It was then abused and thrashed for 2 years and 60k with no problems until the gear box gave up. I suppose what I'm saying is if it's repaired properly and about 1/2 the price of a clean one I certainly would.

I've had a few older cars, including a vw bora highline which is basically this golf with a boot. Apart from it was a pd130, this is a pd150. I've just been over to speak to the current mechanic. He is one of my sons best friends, time served with a local garage then been employed by a local bus/taxi firm which I used to work for as the sole mechanic keeping 10 taxis and well over 20 busses going. He has driven nothing but vag 1.9td and pd engines since he started driving 12 years ago. He has just left the bus firm and started on his own. I was over to ask him if I would order an ecu, he said no, he got another guy to remap my one. My one was an utterly crap map and it wasn't showing faults on vagcom, but threw loads of faults on the remap man's equipment. They tried a standard map then a stage 1 map and after the faults were mapped out the car performs better, it's not going into limp home but is still flat under 2500 revs. The conclusion is now that the vanes on the turbo are seized so the turbo is going to come out and rebuilt. This is apparently going to be the best solution to it, much cheaper than anew turbo, and much better than a secondhand unknown turbo. I like older cars, and used to do most of my own maintenance, but mow I'm not fit to do much in the way of maintenance due yo poot health. My skoda karoq is brilliant for my daily, being higher up, auto and easy to drive and comfy, but utterly boring as I find most newer cars. So getting the golf running and looking well is my project and like a toy. On my worst day it's incredibly difficult for me to get in and out, and work the clutch, but when I'm on better days I much prefer it to the karoq. I look forward to it being well again.

I always actually over service my cars. I only have owned the golf for under a year and only got a partial history. It had a really dodgy map when bought, but the previous guy who worked on it claimed he replaced the ecu as it was faulty. I've since heard of another person who was ripped off by him so I'm assuming g that he has charged me for an ecu ad never changed it. I know he also charged me for handreak cables which are old ones on the car now. I need to know for sure the ecu and map is good, if known good ecu does not help then the turbo has tocome out. We think it can only be one or the other.

It had a crap map before the engine work so it was going to get seen to anyway. I will wait for the ecu to arrive and see what the difference is.

This has now been scanned by the appropriate scanner and checked physically with no apparent faults found. I believe the asshole which allegedly fixed the car didn't change the ecu which he said was knackered and which is on the invoice I paid. So another ecu is going to be got and fitted, or it's going to go to a tuner to do a remap, whichever method is chosen it will have a standard map. It's an old car done 161k and occasional use so I won't need extra power or economy over standard.

It won't tow the caravan either though. If it's a lack of room that the problem is it would look likely to me that you need a caravan tug, the v6 skoda and as you have recently bought the leaf then those two are keepers making the panda kind of redundant. I'm doing a dilemma just now too. My karoq is brilliant solo but struggles with the caravan. I have a mk4 golf for a project car that I love and also have a Citroën dispatch which I got cheap, it's a 2.0 130hp with towbar. It can pull the caravan no probs but not enough seats for me, daughter and grandkids. Do I put seats in the back and keep for caravan tug and keep the karoq and golf? Do I sell the karoq and dispatch and get a better van/ people carrier to replace both? I want to keep the golf, at 22 years old and cracking condition with no rust but a wee running problem just now and I love it. I don't want to be paying two road tax, insurance etc. I would struggle to sell the karoq dropping 6 grand in a year and a half which is the trade in prices I'm being quoted. I dislike the dispatch van, it's sitting no mot tax or insurance in the garden just now. The heart wants to sell karoq and dispatch and buy a caravelle and pay thousand along with them to get a mch higher mileage motor due to the vw camper tax r lose te golf and do a bit of converting the dispatch into a window van with seats. Who knows lol

I actually think if your present car is a good, well looked after example and little used but needed for towing you should keep it. Yes it's road tax is expensive but I would put up with it considering your new daily is free. I wouldn't sell it and buy an elderly diesel 4x4 one which won't really be much cheaper to run and have the chance of being an unknown example with possible big repair costs totally negating any small savings made.