Rory

I've done it three times and have always had to make multiple payments with no issues at all (apart from the hassle of going through the whole process each time). I've done it by calling and using my debit card. I think the issue was VWFS would only accept £10K at a time. I've just found the email from the first one I did, where I queried it as I think the letter did make it sound like they wanted one payment. "Thank you for your email regarding payment. We can confirm you are able to split the transaction over seperate days. please complete the remaining amount on consecutive days. Please use your agreement number as the payment reference number."

Did the letter say "Withdraw", and, if I may, how much was the interest charge? One of the VW Group salesmen told me the reason they're not bothered is people often say they're going to pay it off but then don't. So it's a numbers game - as long as not too many people start doing it.

I should have put a tonque-in-cheek smiley. However it's a long standing family dealer we've known for a while and I don't think they'd outright lie (but I recognise they couldn't be 100% sure of Skoda's plans and even then things change) but, as you describe, what constitutes "another" Karoq? We had a late mk1 Tiguan and there was a big difference to the Mk2 in 2016. The mk3 in late 23/24 is quite different again. So Karoq is certainly due a next version but it doesn't look like there's going to be a significant change.

The dealer we use, in trying to get us take one of the discounted stock models at the end of last quarter, was adamant that there won't be another Karoq. Didn't seem a lot of point in changing ours, especially as that means crystalising the horrible depreciation it's suffered. I can't say I've been thrilled with the car, but wife thinks it's absolutely the perfect size for her.

Had a couple of plans with EMAC over the years and they've worked fine. Had to cancel one on our Ateca as we took it to cover the cars 4th and 5th years as the car had a 5yr warranty so couldn't use All In. Then I found out by chance that the SEAT dealer hadn't applied the warranty - they knew, hadn't told us, and kept the money. So they cancelled the EMAC plan, got the payments refund and put the car onto All In. As for dealer servicing prices - it drives me nuts. The Skoda dealer we use has mental prices on their website but the service manager has wibbled about how it's out of his control - even though it's one-off family owned dealership and the prices are set by dealers (they're all slightly different). Wasn't an issue on our Karoq as bought it Approved Used so after the two included services it was old enough to go onto All In. Daughter's Kamiq was bought new, had two services and even though I've specifically asked I haven't been offered any way of mitigating the upcoming 3rd service - even though I know the dealer uses EMAC. On wife's previous Tiguan the dealer (probably the best dealer I've dealt with) put the car on All In (the car had to have a dealer check for All In back then) on the 6th birthday, 1st Sept. but somehow managed to do the service and MOT at the day before under the plan. I asked the Skoda dealer if the same was possible at 3yrs and they said no. It's not that many years ago that a VW dealer accidentally gave me the invoice they send to VWFS for the car's first oil service - it was £68 inc parts, labour and VAT. I waited while it was done and the car was in the workshop 20 mins. Servicing at full retail prices is astonishingly profitable.

Don't know if you realised, or it's a typo, but the first part of the VW p/n is different, not just the end? One is 04 and the other 05. Also the first NGK p/n is just IKER (there's no L in it) IKER7A8EGS (94224) Looks like the first one is used in 1.0 and 1.4, and the second in 1.0 and 1.5 so, on the basis the 1.4 is older and the 1.5 newer I presume they must have redesigned the cylinder head at some point on the 1.0.

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.

Did you change all four shock absorbers? Funnily enough I find our late 2018 Ateca, with 90K miles on it, an altogether "nicer" drive than our Karoq (with 15K) The Karoq is crashy where the Ateca feels more compliant. The Ateca is on 17" wheels and Michelin CrossClimate tyres, the Karoq on 18" Michelin Primacy, so that will help the Ateca somewhat. Years ago I had a Merc from nearly new that had a most unMerc-like ride. It was on 16" Bridgestone Turanza tyres which are noted as being like iron rings. The rears wore out quickly and I fitted Michelim Primacy but it didn't make much difference. Then I changed the fronts and it was night and day better.

@Evolution13 posted the shcedule ealier in thread. There's no inspection noted or, indeed, any change interval.

We've got both in the family - oddly both immediately pre-facelift cars, as circumstances meant we needed each vehicle quickly: Wife has 22 Karoq 1.5 SEL DSG and daughter has late 23 Kamiq 1.0 SEL manual.

Sounds like the car has been set for fixed interval (12mths) servicing. It alternates now between oil service and oil service with inspection. Are you likely to stick with a Skoda dealer for servicing? If you are, take a look at the All In package, although you can't take it while the car is under warranty, but if it's covered by an Approved Used warranty then I think you can cancel that.