Rory

Here's the Kamiq HVAC screen: Daughter says it makes no odds which fan setting is used, it does its own thing. With the system in manual, the slider appears.

It's not a conviction - only a Court can convict you.

On our Kamiq the slider is only there in manual mode. In auto, it just has the three 'buttons' - low, medium & high. You can see on the Karoq picture that the slider isn't there - our Kamiq is the same, except I think that the three options are always on the screen (in auto) - on the Karoq you have to dab a fan icon to make the selector box appear. I'll get a picture of it next time the car is here.

Thanks for trying them - I was pretty sure I wasn't being dim, but you never know! I don't see it being flap related as there's no separate rear controls - I'm going with they've just forgotten to connect it up. There's a bung goes in the air-box if there's no rear vents so maybe that's been left in place. The fan profile thing is a new one on me - Kamiq isn't here at the moment but looked at out Karoq, and blow (excuse the pun) me, it's pretty well the same: Behind the window there's a fan symbol but it's not obvious that touching it would do anything. The Kamiq doesn't have that - just the three settings appear - and it doesn't say "A/C profile", there's just the three options.

Booked it in to local dealer. Bought it elsewhere but they were fine with that, and I wanted to get the car into their system. I booked our Karoq, which I did buy there, in for service first. I did a flap reset last night even though I didn't think it would make any difference, and it didn't. Rear floor vents are working. Must admit I didn't realise (it's daughter's car) how much of a faff it is going into the infortainment to do most things. And even then it's not immediately obvious what's happening with air flow direction. Daughter commented that the a/c indicator being orange for on is opposite of what you'd think, when everything else is white (and it's white in the separate heater panel). Compared to the picture above, the slider control for fan speed only appears in manual on our's. In auto there's a low, medium and high selection for the fan - why doesn't it just work "automatically"! There's no mention of it in the online handbook and as best I can gather it's a mode selection and it sets the max fan speed - how odd.

Thanks for trying. Didn't matter what I did, there was just no sense of airflow from the rear vents at all. I'm dreading the likely fix - I assume the trunking that must be under the console hasn't been connected somewhere. When bits like this are removed they never go back the same.

Well, yes, it does have the bonkers electronic climate control where not much can be done without going into the infotainment (they've added more controls to the heater panel on the new model just out) but it's two zone = left and right. If it was 3 zone (which I don't think is offered on Kamiq) then it would have additional control for the rear. So (apart from opening and closing the vents themselves) there's no control over the rear air flow - if the front face level vents are blowing, then the rear should be too - and that's exactly what happens on our Karoq.

Thanks - yes, I can see the slats are opening and closing. There's just no sense of airlflow at all - it's like the vents are just pretend! Tried our Karoq and there's a thumbwheel to open them, and once open, air blasts through. I wonder if there might be a air distribution flap out of position but there's no separate control for the rear so I doubt it's that. Hmmm...seeems like it might be quite a big take-apart job to find what's wrong.

Just in case I'm missing something, is there anything that needs to be done to make air come out of the rear vents? I know there's a slider on each vent, but moving that doesn't change anything, Had the car 6 mths and it's only become apparent it's not working now the weather is getting warmer.

Wonder if that is Skoda or VWFS? Anyway none of these people actually work for VW Group, they contact out customer service to an American company, TTEC. I tried similar with daughter's Ateca - the SEAT dealer didn't apply the 5yr warranty, didn't tell us, kept the money (I paid separately) and it was only a chance conversation with the the "SEAT" call centre when the car was 3 yrs old that revealed it wasn't in place. So we took All In instead, and a week later they started the black Friday discount - they wouldn't hear of giving us the discount. They said I culd cancel but tha would mean (at the time) the car needed another dealer check before it could have a new All In plan which would have been a right faff to go through again with daughter's madly busy life.

Agre Agree - I bet the number of people signing up for these services is absolutely tiny. Some manufacturers are putting optons that can be software enabled on subscription - it's a slippery slope!

The time I really notice it is when driving up and down floors on tight multi-story car parks - lot of turns and slow enough speed that other noise doesn't drown it out so it's knocking almost continously.

Noisy on ours too - they did grease them, and that seemed to "soften" the noise so it's more like a chattering than a knock, but it's still there. Was interesting that they gave me an identical courtesy car and that was totally silent.

Sounds like the only upgrade of note is the virtual cockpit - did she option that anyway? I'm surprised at the wait - we ordered a new SE-L in Aug when we got our used 22 model. Dealer called in Dec to say it was on its way. I cancelled as the price to change was bonkers - they'd suggested £6000 when we ordered which was mad enough, but asked for £13,000 when they called in Dec.

I don't think they changed anything last year but they seemed to do two updates in 22 - early Apr was a slight faceift (with the step in the headlamps) and then in mid July 22 they announced the model year 23 changes.

I would imagine a tiny number of owners ever remove them - I'm sure we won't, I'd probably hurt myself get the seats out. Wonder if that means it gets a solid boot cover?

No torch in our 22 SE-L.

The 4Motion on our Tiguan was "nice to have". I guess you get independent rear suspension too. Mind you, it was £1500 extra (before discount). The whole car (150 TDI DSG Match 4Motion) was 'only' £24K new. Be interesting to see what discounts become available on new Karoq. Will there be any more colours? Last time I looked even Petrol Blue had gone.

Hurrah - particularly on the SE-L, I can't believe they stuck with the 8" digital display for the last couple of years.

They'll be back to circa 20% off again soon enough. The only annoying thing will be the cars that breach the £40K list price will be stuck with higher tax - I guess very few people will buy those, unless they somehow don't realise.

Ours seems more than iively enough in "normal" - I can't say it's never given me any concerns in such circumstances. I used to have a Merc that had Comfort and Standard settings - it was close to undriveable around town in Comfort, especially as it started in 2nd gear.

I've only driven VW courtesy cars with lane keeping assist and it didn't bother me - I thought it was amusing more than anything else. Daughter says it's close to terrifying in her Kamiq - unless she's massively exaggerating it sounds much more forceful than I remember - or perhaps I just never did anything to make it intervene more strongly.

Wow, I thought that must be wrong, to be honest, but sure enough the spec says Halogen headlights. LED running lights.

"Our" Karoq is really my wife's but I do drive it quite a bit. This is unscientific, but to my mind you've got the mode the wrong way around. In normal, everyday use, use "normal". I took the Karoq for one long trip motorway trip and was a bit disappointed that the MPG seemed stuck at low 40's. It then occurred to me to switch to Eco and slowly crept up to low 50's MPG. Other than trying it for the heck of it, I can't think why I'd use Sport.

Is the digital dash the narrower one - basically I think it just has one "dial" in the middle? I didn't like that at all when given an SE courtesy car. The old twin dial non-digital dash in ours is lovely and clear. the Karoq spec is a bit weird in this respect - even the facelift SE-L only gets the 8" display. Yet the bigger one was standard on daughter's SEL Kamiq. Does the newer one have lane keeping assist? Drives some people bonkers - my neighbour hated it so much he sold his car back to the local Skoda dealer and bought an older one. It can be turned off with a couple of button presses, but has to be done every trip. I assume the older car doesn't have it but check that - our 22 reg SEL doesn't but the specs did change a bit during Covid.