Rory

This is a fairly common issue on VW Group cars. Usually the fix is changing the wiper switch, but I've seen several posts where people say cleaning the screen where the sensor is stops it, even though they were adamant the wiper stalk was was not in the auto position. I suppose it costs nothing to try that.

Mine is the same as the one in the first post - I don't believe there's any option to select another view.

Actually so did ours (almost), although we didn't crystalise that loss. When we got the Karoq leadtime on new orders was 9mths. The dealer ordered one in our name but didn't take a deposit. They said (verbal) we could change for £6K. The bottom then promptly fell out of the market and the new one arrived 4 months later. The dealer called and said they couldn't do the deal as ours had lost £12K. 😒 I supposed if you want to spin it positively, the car has only lost £2K since then (2.5yrs)! It what comes of buying a car in a bit of a panic. It was that experience which put me into "nope" mode when the salesman grabbed us. Another thing I'm not sure about - is there going to a new Karoq? Salesman said it's done now, there won't be a new one. But the internet suggests there is another one coming, although the info is all a bit vague.

I don't believe it's fitted to Karoq. Google suggests it's on Octavia (which surprised me) and Enyaq.

Our dealer grabbed me the other day when taking our (wife's really) Karoq for service. In round numbers he was offering SEL for £30K and Sportline for £32K. I knew ours had dropped a lot in value - we bought it at 18mths old at the height of the Covid shortages, but for it to lose £14K in 3yrs is just horrible. As the car only does a few K miles per year I could lease one for less but wife doesn't fancy doing that. To my mind changing from one SEL to another doesn't give us anything, Sportline was nice, but I dread living with 19" diamond cut wheels. Sales guy said they'll be fine with DCC - but that just seems OTT on a Karoq. I'm nervous of the sunroof too - love them, but VW Group roofs have a habit of leaking or rattling, or both. Snag is my wife has got the idea of having a new car into her head and I've no idea what else we could look at - Karoq is such a perfect size, she won't even consider Tiguan as "too big".

I don't think they're fitted on the current model? When we looked at Sportline a couple of years ago, we were shown the dealer "Brand Manager's" car - he'd taken the covers off as he hated them so much!

Interesting - I noticed I could see more of the number plate on ours a while ago but thought i was going mad, then recently the number place became even more obvious to the extent that I assumed it must have warped. But it hasn't, so no idea what's going on. Could be connected to selecting reverse too early. The car does sometimes say the camera isn't available - that can happen at both start and end of journeys. There's no alternate view option on our car.

If you time it right, you can run the All In package until the car reaches its 8th birthday - I don't think you can argue against the package, especially if it's bought in one of the 20% periods, although it is creeping up in price and it's annoying that dealers lean on you to have other stuff done. Karoq is the perfect size for us - I preferred our late mk1 diesel 4Motion DSG Tiguan. Karoq feels "cheap" in comparison, but my wife thought the newer ones were too big.

Replying to my own post above - not a good start, no sign of the salesman when I went in. They wanted me to hang around as he'd be in soon, but then they said he'd been delayed so I left. Saw him when collecting the car - appt had been booked by someone else but not put his diary. Nothing changes with this dealer's admin! Anyway, he said Skoda are chucking money at non-EVs that can be registered this month (so by the end of the quarter). Around £6500 off an SEL, making it about £30K, £6800 off a Sportline, making it £32K. Valued ours at £16K. So a lot of money to change to basically the same thing.

Do you think that it's the tailgate itself that is vibrating and causing the booming? Our Karoq doesn't do it, but we also have a 1.0 manual Ateca and that booms painfully on rough surfaces at low speed - so I assumed it was the tyres.

I got a call from our dealer yesterday noting that I'll be in next week and would I like to "touch base" with the salesguy who sold us our car? I'll remind him they promised to swap our Approved Used Karoq for a new one at a verbally agreed price that went out of the window when the new car arrived. It's my wife's car really and she hasn't gelled with the Karoq, and the I find the the Skoda dealer service staff a right arsy bunch. We were spoiled by how good the Tiguan, and (unusually) the VW dealer was that we had before.

If you're looking on line the pricing can be random. I put a 22 plate Q3 reg into the Audi online service booking page. That gives a list of the 5 nearest dealers. Nearest (across the road from the Skoda dealer) was £70. Three other were £56. I told the Skoda dealer this - they rang up and were quoted £100. I tried another 22 plate Q3 reg and it quoted me £120! Our Skoda dealer shows £108 for our car. I was looking for our Kamiq, coming up to three years old. and the service prices were insane. Service manager has told me to call him directly, but I'm not holding my breath for a decent price. There are indies around us that I've used in past - one is very much an "under the arches" type place. No problem with them but it's all a bit frantic in there and they just seem to make up prices on the spot. No courtesy cars makes it awkward. There's a more organised one but that's a right faff to get to - well over an hours drive at peak times. I'm wedded to the All In package - it worked well for us on Tiguan and recently did £1200 of work on our 7yr old / 90K mile Ateca. Getting the car in quickly with an Enterprise hire car provided made the whole issue effortless.

The dealer I use was so mortified by me refusing the 2yr brake fluid change that they did it anyway FOC. They also replaced the a/c compressor under warranty as it was noisy, so I didn;t get asked about having it regassed. The new one is just as noisy mechanically but doesn't screech (which I think may have just been the gas being low), and the one on the courtesy car (same car as ours) was noisy too. Our Ateca and Kamiq have silent a/c. Anyway, it's going in next week for its 4yr service and I was contacted today and asked about having them done for the bargain price of £199. Gulp. On it's own they said they'd do the brake fluid for £80 instead of the normal £100. Where on earth do these price come from - £100 to change the brake fluid seems insane! It also really hacks me off that the car has All In, and yet All In is anything but!

I cancelled one of mine - but it was before any services had been done. At first they just said they would stop taking the payments but I pushed for a refund - they hummed and harred then agreed to refund the 4 months I'd paid as goodwill. I don't know what would happen if any servicing work had been carried out - I think (but I'm guessing here) they'd figure out how much it cost and ask you to pay that (if you hadn't already paid enough). The T's and C's say if you want to transfer it then you can, but it has to be fully paid first. When I took over my daughter's Ateca I just got her to keep paying it - had a breakdown and it wasn't queried.

No, but Ateca is made on the same production line as the Karoq - at least, our Ateca was, at Skoda in the Czech Republic.