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Sorry, don’t know the batteries detail. AA guy who rescued me the second time back in Aug 20 said he was seeing this same problem over and over again on VW group recent cars, and it has been discussed on here before. Some cars lasted a year or more before a particular circumstance left their deficient battery flat as less affected

A batch of cars built late 2019 to mid 2020 may have had a dud battery fitted, or due to many cars stood for months battery went flat and this type of battery fails if left for some time flat. Affected all VW group cars. Some will be worse than others as say a partially charging battery may not initially show any problems but never fully charge again. My car battery would not charge significantly and went flat day 2 after delivery and after help from Aa and charging for 24 hours failed again on day 4. Replaced by Skoda and no issues since.

Apparently no longer fitted so perfectly normal

It’s protecting your car. You will have been getting too close to a wall or some vegetation. Mine regularly does this going through a narrow spot on drive to get to garage. After it stops I just set off again. Conversely it did it once when driving and stopped a collision with the car in front which stopped suddenly and for no apparent reason. It stopped the car in a much shorter distance than seemed possible manually including reaction time. I will put up with occasional false alarms for this valuable safety feature. You can apparently reduce the sensitivity in the menu so try that first.

That’s a thought? My car has lane assist, warns when following too close etc, so surely it has all the technology and radar installed to do adaptive cruise control and follow car in front? Mine just sets speed and keeps to that.

I don’t have Skoda connect any more. Huge problems getting it to connect reliably via iPhone. Took minutes before each journey getting car to connect via phone hotspot, gave up on end and never paid to renew. However it still reroutes sometimes around traffic and shows roads closed etc? How does it know?

If you do the sums it’s is rarely worth the cost of changing a car just to get a few extra mpg! Changing a car due to its age or need a different type, or just because you want a different one is fine though if you have the funds.

My new Karoq broke down on day 2 in Aug 20 with a flat battery. AA got it going. It did it again a few days later so AA got it started again and accompanied me back to D M Keith in York. It was there a week until fixed. I was given a loan car with no charge. Indeed it even came with a full tank of fuel which I used for several work trips and had to put 5lt in to get it back to the garage and it arrived with zero range left. I was not charged for the fuel either!

Thanks. I didn’t know that VW built cars in USA. I suppose the popularity of the Beetle and iconic early minibus in beach areas can only help.

Why don’t they sell Skoda over there? Seem to like VW and Audi vehicles though which are the same under the skin just cost more.

I may be wrong but wasn’t there a report of a bug in the recent iPhone update causing this sometimes?

My 2005 superb saloon came with one. It was stored on the underside of the boot lid. Quite cleverly when boot was open it became an additional reflector for the rear of the car at high level.

Still have and use umbrella from my leased 2005 Superb. Much better than the Karoq one under the seat which has never yet been used apart from testing it works - too small

Drove my daughters Fabia dsg the other day. Kept forgetting it had a manual handbrake and had to be driven like my previous Yeti dsg. So much easier now with automatic handbrake! I kept trying to move off from parked with the brake still applied. Quickest way to wear out a dsg dry clutch prematurely as many have done in the past. Much less of an issue with auto brake. I was once given a lift by a Skoda employee to work when my car was taken in for servicing. It was an Octavia dsg and every time we stopped he applied the handbrake, and waited at say traffic lights in drive with no footbrake applied. Car constantly slipping clutch to stop engine stalling! A dry clutch version. Many owners used to do this as well wearing out dry clutches in only a few thousand miles.

Surely all Karoq diesels are Euro6? I thought it had to have adblu to be able to achieve Euro6? The last thing you want is a Euro 5 car as these are charged more or even banned from entering some clean air zones.

There are taxis with the wet clutch dsg which have done over 500k without fault if properly serviced. I deliberately went for the diesel dsg to get the wet clutch as theoretically there will virtually no clutch wear. The drive is transmitted between the plates by shear in the oil and the plates don’t actually engage until both are travelling at the same speed. A dry clutch dsg works like a conventional clutch using friction between the plates to transmit power when setting off. The engine plates spinning and drive plates stationary at that point. The clutch plates have to wear to do this and have a finite life. Life will depend on driving style. Perhaps up to 150k if driven properly but can be worn out in only a few thousand miles if abused. (It is more difficult to abuse a dsg in a car with auto handbrake though so should do better in a Karoq than in cars with a manual handbrake)

I have had a 1.6 tdi auto as a loan car for a few hundred miles. I thought it went well enough and returned about 55mpg on a longish trip. I now have the 190ps 2lt diesel auto which goes very well, but is not that economical with its 4wd system at around 40mpg typically, maybe 45 on a run. The 2wd 2lt diesel auto is 150ps and a lot more economical apparently but I have not tried one. Dont buy a diesel unless you do enough long trips to allow the car to maintain the dpf, a filter in the exhaust. For low mileage use stick to petrol. With diesel being a lot more than petrol now there is probably no saving over life of car anyway.

Just plug your phone in and use that. Typically the apps on a phone are more up to date. I do use the map function on my 2020 car as it has it and also displays the map on the dashboard using the virtual display. However I have sometimes resorted to google maps or similar when my destination was not in the built in version. Also unless you have a live internet connection the built in map does not account for traffic problems very well. (My car can have a sim but that is expensive monthly for the amount I would need it, and you also have to pay an annual fee to Skoda. Not worth it for what it does. In principal the car can connect via a hotspot on your phone but I could never get it to reliably reconnect the next time I used the car. Had to fiddle through all the menus each time, not worth the effort compared to plugging in the phone and it just works!)

They don’t even make my car now, an Edition with 190ps tdi 4wd dsg, and loads of toys plus desirable extras fitted when built. ( I saw it in the showroom for sale new whilst in to get 3 year old Yeti serviced, which I had intended to keep for years) So can’t replace it!

Front discs and brakes should be straightforward diy. Rear brakes are difficult I understand due to auto handbrake systems needing to be over riden? The Haldex service on my Yeti was £165 2 years ago including the essential opening up and filter clean.

Yes my sons was a dry clutch Ford! The clutch pack seems to last about 25k miles. Didn’t know that Ford also have wet clutch version?

Old posts never die. I ordered a Yeti with the wet clutch gearbox and then had buyers remorse after doing some reading of posts about the dsg. However they were years old and many millions of these have now been sold and used, with I suspect only a small failure rate. I at one point changed the order back to manual and then later back to dsg again!! However I have now completed 5 years in dsg cars with no issues. Now if it was a Ford like my sons auto …… don’t do it! Crap. Had the dry clutch replaced under warranty to stop slipping and juddering when changing from 1st to 2nd when just bought second hand, and 5 years on it really needs doing again.

We had a Fabia years ago which needed regular topping up. No sign of a leak. It was weeping out of the seal around the temp sensor onto the radiator only when hot and instantly vaporised. Took six years to track it down in end!

Ok, looked at so many car specs recently it’s blurring, probably thinking of Enyaq which is 19” standard and options for 20 and21”. I bought my edition from a showroom so it came as it was with no choices bar the extras already fitted

I think you need the 16” 6.5j wheel officially for the Karoq? That is what I am using for my winter tyres. I bought these for my prior Yeti and found out later that these were not the correct wheel for a Yeti but fortunately are exactly right for the Karoq. Yeti should have had 7j wheel really.