Rory

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.

Yes - turns out some of the comments I've made in this thread are exactly the same as yours in 2019! Odd that some posters in that thread say their's has always been like that, then a few say their's has changed. It does seem like the view is now a combination of the wide angle and tow ball view. To be honest, we don't use the camera much - even my wife prefers to look around - so it doesn't bother us, it's just a bit weird that it seems to have changed. We mostly use it when backing off the drive (as shown in the image I uploaded) as we have the village school in our road and so there can be quite a lot of people walking back and forth, so the wider the view the better. I might ask the dealer next time the car is in, but it's one of those things where I know they'll act dumb (they're very good at that!). ETA: Bit of Googling finds a thread where VW California (the van thing) owners are saying the same thing. No conclusion though.

I guess you have a posher version than I do 😀- all I see is this: I didn't even know those brightness etc adjustments were there. I wonder if the recent software update the dealer did has affected things? Having said that, it's always amazing that you can notice something you've never picked up on before and then it sticks out like sore thumb

Weird - it looked so odd I had to get out and check. Had the car for over a year although it's my wife's and I probably only drive it once a week. I've heard the plastic lens cover can drop off so that was one of my thoughts. So suggest you don't try and move it!

I might be going mad here, but I got into the car today and reversed (as usual) out of the drive and noticed that I could see the car's rear number plate curving up in both bottom corners of the camera image. I've never noticed this before and at first I thought the number plate might be unstuck at either end or even that the camera somehow got nudged, but everything looks fine. Do others see the number plate?

It's discussed here:

It's quite weird driving ours now and it not making the noise! Odd how some Karoqs do it and some don't. Ours was 16mths old when we bought it and had only done 4K, and we've only done another 4K in a year so I wonder if it's lack of use? On one visit the dealer gave us an identical courtesy car with 13K on it and that didn't make the same noise even in places where ours always did it.