Rory

Blimey - CrossClimate's bad in the wet? I don't think I've ever seen anyone say that before.

The wiring flexing when freezing cold can't be a good thing. I disabled auto-folding on ours, but it's parked out of the way on drive, I suppose it'd be a nuisance to remember if you want them folded in routinely.

I don;t know how much jiggery pokery was involved but we got All In on our Tiguan when it was just coming up to 6yrs old. The car had an exteneded warranty until the day before its 6th birthday which at the time I was being told couldn't be cancelled, and the car had to have an inspection to go on All In (they dropped that after a couple of years). so the dealer booked it in for All In inspection, MOT and service the day before it was 6 and did it all on the All In plan. I wasn't sure it was going to work, but they were completely laid back about it, and it worked fine (at least, as far as I was concerned). Mind you the "additional Items" bill on that service for a/c, brake fluid and haldex weren't far off as much as a service would have cost. I felt obliged to have them as they'd done them all FOC when the car was 3yrs old due to a mix-up and having to go back to get them done.

I think the tool is just that - the VW bolt cover remover. They use the same spare wheel kit across mulitple models and it sems to always have that tool. Our Ateca has similar bolt covers to Karoq and that came with the wire tool too, but didn't have the tweezers, so I just bought some off eBay.

I suppose they're "slightly worn" the moment the car drives out of the factory. When they tell you stuff like this, you do always feel like you're being softened up for a future hit.

I've used All Seasons for years, well before CrossClimates etc came out. Had them on a Merc Estate years ago, used year round they seemed as quiet and long-lived as the Michelin Primacy's they replaced. I now always use CrossClimates on the family cars when replacing - annoys the heck out me that you can't order with All Seasoms from new. Been looking at Volvo XC40 and all the ~12mth old cars I've lookedhave All Season tyres fitted, but slightly later EX40's have summer tyres.

Those weight figures are at 2.5bar. So it doesn't make much sense that that's the normal pressure for Kamiq, and the pressure label on the car suggests even higher for a fully loaded car. Baffling. For the 92 LI tyres, the 630Kg is also at 2.5bar. Karoq label says normal pressure is 2.1bar, which is 550kg. It's a slight oddity with XL tyres, but something to aware of it you replace standard tyres with XL tyres, that their rated load capacity is at 2.9bar. At lower pressures their load capacity is bit lower than standard tyres at the same pressure.

Daughter had to replace one of Kamiq's tyres today, after a puncture yesterday. She came here afterwards and the tyre was at 2.7bar. All the others at 2.2 again. (Label in fuel flap sys 2.5bar (which is 36psi). Car was serviced a week ago so I can only assume the garage set them at 2.2 again. I'd have a word with the garage and they'll say the right things but do absolutely nothing. I also find it stange that Kamiq's spec is 2.5bar, yet our Karoq is 2.1 bar - both on 18" wheels, although Kamiq's tyres are 45 profile and Karoq's are 50.

It's same on Ateca - our daughter became quite adept at doing it - so I assume it's same on Karoq.

Supposedly VW was working on a torque convertor platform gearbox to replace DSG, but they canned the project as EVs got going so wasn't worth it given ICE car production will stop in the not to distant (in car manuafacturing lifetime terms) time. TBH I'm pretty happy with our Karoq - I think the diesel Tiguan we had before would have been much better with a fluid link in its drivetrain. On the warranty front, if you time it right you can get 8yrs using All In. Don't know the rules in Oz. but usually to comply with manufacturers warranty it makes sense to service at franchise dealers to avoid any queries, so using All In makes the warranty effectively free. It's a big issue for me right now looking at EVs - there's no All In for EVs and, while 8yrs is common for batteries, many manufactures limit the rest of the car to 3yrs. Kia do 7yrs and Hyundai do 5. But then there's a dead stop - they don't do extended warranty at all.

It slightly annoys me that "2 cyl mode" doesn't show in the analoge dash of our 22 car unless the multi-function display is set to MPG - my wife always sets it to show speed. I like to try and drive to keep it in 2 cyl mode as much as possible. Always drive in normal, apart from once I used the car a long work trip and it occured to me halfway there to put it in eco mode - made a noticeable improvement to MPG

Agree with others - it surely can't be working? Don't have it on our car but have driven plenty of VW Group cars with it, including daughter's Kamiq, and it's nagging at you pretty frequently, even just for cracks in the road. Daughter always turns it off. One of my neighbours hated it so much on his Karoq that he returned the car and swapped it for an older one without lane assist!

I was about to post the same thing! When it's doing the rear auto-wipe thing, it's not very frequent (I don't know if anything controls it, but on very wet motoways it doesn't auto-wipe often enough) so if it's wet enough for the front wipers to be on then the rear would be at least a bit wet.

On our 2018 (so changed the batteries a few times now) Ateca I've had 100% success since we started using Energiser CR2025's, generally getting 12mths out of them. Early in its life the dealer changed one, charging our daughter £12, and it didn't work leaving the dealership. They took the fob away and she presumed changed the battery again, but the fob failed a month later. That was a Panasonic battery.

Who said that, and how do they know (vs being affected after delivery)? What did the bodyshop try? I'm not an expert but I've seen this kind of thing if grinding has been carried out nearby or the car was kept near a train line (very possible if the car lived in Crewe) especially in a braking area. If it is iron, it can be dissolved away. Has a good detailer looked at the car?

How did the bodyshop manage to turn those marks , even if all over the car, into a 30 page report? To be honest ours is petrol blue and if it had those marks I don't think I'd be able to see them.

It should have the stamp of the dealer that did the PDI inside the front cover of the owners manual. Supposedly (so the dealer told us) my wife's Karoq was an ex-Bentley car. We live, and bought the car from, a dealer in the same county as Bentley. It does fit as the car has a local registration number (DGxx...) which surprised me as normally cars like this are registered at the manufacturers head office location. The PDI was done by GBA Technical Service (VW Group PDI Centre) in Kent - but it could be that all PDIs are done there, many manufacturers do them at the import centre. I'm gobsmacked "Skoda UK" (it's actually a call centre covering all VW Group staffed by people who work for an American company TTEC) told you it was ex-Motability if that's not true, Although having said that VW Group UK customer service are legendary for talking complete nonsense and being totally useless. It's pretty poor of the dealer you bought it from to pass the buck like this - what happened to the "peace of mind" part of buying Skoda Approved used? You've had it a while so it's a bit late now but you could have rejected it on the basis of it not being of satisfactory quality. Did you see the car before buying it?

I didn't think it was actully going to land here until March 25?

Thanks. I'm still not 100% it wasn't always like that, but other people have reported it changing (and on other VW models too). I prefer the wider view. The image seems a bit jerky now when I'm reversing, it's not smooth. So again, I do think it has changed.

Been out on the car again today - rare that it's used three consecutive days - and it was absolutely fine. Heavy dew here this morning and we were out pretty early, so if it was due to condensation on the clutches etc then I'd have expected a problem this morning. I do think there's generally a bit of "edgy-ness" about the DQ200 that there wasn't in our 4Motion Tiguan, with it's DQ500. But then the Tiguan had what felt like significant backlash in the drive train and Karoq doesn't do that at all. I do think these SUVs would be all the better for torque converter autos - the fluid link would make them altogether smoother. Apparently VW was thinking of switching but the project got canned as the EV deadlines came along rendering long-term ICE related development work pointless.

Backed it off the drive yesterday (car last used 24hrs before) and no judder, Started forwards in drive ( I thought I had tapped the selector to select sport but once moving saw the dash said D) and it noticeably juddered. Put it in sport but the only other standing start was joining the bypass road out of the village which is slightly uphill and needs to be done reasonably firmly due to approaching traffic. It was fine, no judder.

I put the Costco supa-dupa stuff in the car a while ago and it seemed to go mad! Made it more likely to squeal its front tyres turning out of junctions and the throttle seemed altogether sharper. It's taken a while but it's gone back to how it was now.

Interesting - other than trying it to see what happens, I've never used sport mode. We live in a semi-rural area, couple of turns out of the village and then the car is doing at least a few miles to wherever we're going, so it doesn't do any frequent stop/start type driving that would enable me to pick up any repetition on this behaviour that would make me think to try sport. Got to pick the grandchildren up later, so I'll try and remember to try it.

Did have a search and not seen anything quite the same, but apologies if I'm duplicating. I'm aware of the earlier issues with the 1.5 manuals, but ours is Mar 22 car, DSG, bought Aug 23 with 4K miles and now has 10K. It's my wife's car and not used much, often going a few days between uses. We did have a lot of trouble with suspension noise, "fixed" eventually by greasing the front shocks piston, but during trying to find this I became aware that the car sometimes judders from rest - I did think it was some suspension issue (some VWs have subframes that come loose, for example) but now the suspension is sorted I was out in the car today and noticed that it still judders. It's yet another of those annoyingly random things - if you start wheil thinking about the judder it won't do it, next start, and not thinking about it, it'll judder! Anyone else have similar issues? We did have a manual car in the family that would always have clutch judder first thing but was then fine and it was put down to condensation on the flywheel, which I thought unlikely as the clutch is pressed against it, but it never got any worse in 70K miles.

Well, I have the simple system, but (now) have a wide angle view. As a point of principle I never bet my life on things but I'm certain it wasn't that wide before - it was more like Berisford's first image. I mentioned about using the image to watch for people walking past the end of our drive and I recall that I really couldn't see much wider than the drive itself. Now the view is much wider - you can nearly see the full width of my garden and there's no way it was like before.