Practicaldriver

Rubbish! If as in my case you are concentrating on potential hazards, cruising at 30mph, the fact that the car ramps up to 60mph is quite disconcerting and you do react but your attention is distracted. Another issue, on M1 your car is doing 70mph and suddenly brakes. You could well get hit up the chuff box. Car behind sees brake lights come on for no reason, he brakes...

Formerly Progress and now service proposition is awful. 8 week delay for an appointment to get a possible oil leak checked out and now another family member has to wait 3 months for a warranty fix. Apparently the delay is worse because it is an electric car! It appears Marshalls have sold many new cars without increasing its capacity to service them. I think Skoda UK need to be advised.

Watching this with interest! We have a Kodiaq and the updates are not coming through. 50mph speed limits in former road work locations. Worse still, 60mph when a 30 mph just introduced. Watch the car go.....

We usually use Skoda's built-in navigation system but find that the information is out of date, specifically the speed limits. For example on the M1 around junction 16 where there has been 50mph speed limits but been removed for sometime. The system still thinks that the speed limits are 50 when they are clearly 70mph. This causes confusion, unexpected braking and annoyance. My other half is convinced that the navigation data is not being updated. Question therefore, how often is the data updated and how do we check that we are getting them? We do pay for the automatic updates by the way. A dangerous example of the lack of updates. I was leaving a 30mph zone and entering a new 40mph zone which has just been added and rightly so. On automatic cruise control, I left the 30mph zone and the car suddenly accelerated too quickly for my liking towards 60mph, the old speed limit. This was, given the traffic conditions, dangerous. Anyone else having these problems? (The 40 sign wasn't recognised even though every confounded green advisory sign is!)

I bought the Nextbase ferrite bead and it didn't work. Initially. Firstly I don't know how the dashcam is wired or where the power supply cable is. So with that caveat, I'll recount what I did to improve things significantly. I had to clamp the bead around the cable going into the rear view camera. Since the diameter of the cable was less than the diameter of the bead, I inserted a short piece of garden cane alongside the cable to fill the void and tightly clamped the bead around the cable. That worked! My next post might be to say it has suddenly stopped working but so far I have an awful lot of DAB stations including Xmasfm or something like that. Jeepers. So tight ferrite bead has satisfied my other half.

Thank you for the help and feedback. I am surprised that the kit didn't come with the ferrite core but anyhow, new ones ordered and hopefully that will ease the problem.

My wife is not impressed with the DAB reception in our new Kodiaq. Having driven it, I agree. When we ordered our car, we decided to get the garage to install a new Nextgear522 dashcam before we collected it. The cam is mounted next to the rear view mirror. I have read that dashcams can interfere with DAB reception. Therefore, I tuned to a DAB station which we cannot quite get. As soon as I disconnected, removed power, to the dash cam, reception improved. In fact it was perfect. Reception disappeared when I powered up the dash cam. Is this a known problem? Any suggestions as to how I can improve things?

Thank you. I have taken pictures and cannot see anything on those. I have put kitchen paper on a grabber and wiped around it. Nothing but dirty grease, nothing damp. Cardboard under the car held down with bricks no longer showing stains. It appears to have gone! Do we cancel dealer appointment? Cracking little car otherwise. Except for speed camera warnings even though you are on cruise control!

A bit of a long shot here but we have a 4 month old 2025 Skoda Kodiaq SportLine (7 Seat) 1.5 TSI e-TEC 150 PS. We have found an oily patch on our driveway under where we normally park our car. The dealer cannot look at it until August (disgraceful, it wasn't like that before they were taken over). Anyone suggest what it may be? It appears midway between front wheels. It appears to be light oil. There are no warning lights or messages. The drip tray covers a large area and we cannot be sure that the drip isn't from the drip tray. The amount is small. Suggestions please?

Thank you. My wife drives the car and as a passenger it irritates me especially when she is using speed control to drive at the legal limit anyhow! In fact it is reaching the situation where Skoda (and others) are telling you how to drive and there are features which cannot be turned off because they are safety related. Except they are not! Thank you for the answer.

As the original poster I will feed back our experience after 3 months use. A reminder, we went for a 2025 Skoda Kodiaq SportLine (7 Seat) 1.5 TSI e-TEC 150 PS. On our holiday in Derbyshire we averaged 46mpg there and back. Slightly less up and down the dales. Handled the hills well but as expected, noisy when accelerating hard. Its length can cause issues and you are always thinking about scraping the tyres. However, as a passenger I am starting to loath the thing. If we overlook the tendency to apply emergency brakes for no reason and potentially causing an accident, the speed camera announcements are intrusive though they can be turned off. Then the speed camera recognition accepts the green advisory speed limit and not the legal limit. Messages and warnings are based on the advisory limit. Then as a passenger you want to change some settings but you are not allowed to because it assumes you are the driver and shouldn't be distracted! The in house navigation system is an example. Android navigation is better in this respect! I am still not convinced about the speed control system which drives into corners too fast, the ride being uncomfortable. Could be the wife of course! As a practical day to day runner, with 2 large dogs, we are delighted with it. As a passenger, well, I am not impressed.

There is no doubt that it is a little noisier than our previous model. This is particularly noticeable on automatic cruise control. When the car accelerates, engine noise is quite obvious but in manual control it is not too bad and the car keeps up well in busy traffic. Fuel economy is better and my car washer says it is easier to clean with fewer gaps and voids. We do like it.

Handed over on 1 March 2025 and isn't it different from our old one! Love the colour. There was a problem connecting to Skoda's server, probably crashed due to all the new cars being registered that day, but by Sunday pm working OK. First impression is that it's slower as you would expect, noisier even but it is an impressive bit of kit making the old car look dated. No regrets so far but early days....

Our experience with Nextbase is that the battery went after 18 months or so and it is (or was) not a user replaceable item. It had to go back to Nextbase for repair and that battery lasted just 6 months. I think other manufacturers offer a better alternative but as I say, beware!

Luxury tax is obscene. You've already paid say 40% tax on income and then you pay more because you have worked harder to earn that money. Also the threshold is arbitrary. That's life I guess, no point fretting about it.

Ordered a Kodiaq SportLine today 3 October. Delivery into UK end of February. Just have to be patient I guess.

So what did we go for? 2025 Skoda Kodiaq SportLine (7 Seat) 1.5 TSI e-TEC 150 PS in velvet red. Delivery in February. Why? No justification for diesel, we only do 10,000 miles. Cost, about £4k less. No need for charging points. Avoids those big, heavy batteries. Performance no longer as important as it was. Besides, when do you need it with congestion and potholes. Insurance cheaper as is road tax I believe. We like the improved interior but what is the "felt" covered bar for in the centre console? No gear stick confuses me and the additional stalks on the steering wheel will do me a confuse at my age. Looking forward to receiving it!

Guess what, Sportline version can now be ordered. Dealer wanted a quick sale rather than say this version will be available shortly.

Thank you for responding. Sports car performance we don't need and the Kodiaq is not designed for this market. Why change? Management likes to change her car every 3 years. Who am I to argue though I agree, we should wait. 26,000 miles on the clock is nothing. Our thoughts are being clarified a little, thanks again.

Much of the early press releases and indeed reviews stated that a 2l petrol engine was an option but according to the dealer who has spoken to higher powers said that this is not going to happen. The cynic in me says that the dealer would say that to get a sale now but it is a question we will ask the dealer, what was his source of information? Anyhow, the original question still remains!

We have a Kodiaq 2.0 TSI 190 Sport Line 4x4 5dr DSG with 7 seats. We are delighted with it, suits our lifestyle and needs and particularly its acceleration and pulling power. However 5 seats would do us. We are looking to replace it but sadly Skoda are not producing a vRS or Sport Line version nor as indicated earlier this year a 2 litre petrol engine version. Sadly, this leaves us with either an SE L 2.0 TDI 193 PS 4x4 DSG or possibly the SEL 1.5 TSI iV 204 PS DSG, the latter being a PHEV of course. The PHEV version is interesting, and we can read the specifications and options for each one or of course ask the dealer, but what we do not understand or get a feel for is how the long range, on-road performance of the PHEV version compares with what we already have or its diesel equivalent today, the alternative option now. To us, we understand that the combination of electric and 1.5l petrol can give 205bhp but what happens to performance over a journey of say 150 miles? Batteries only last a finite time. Can you expect the performance (grunt) we currently get or what is the compromise? We are struggling to get a feel for this especially as the car may be heavier with the batteries and comes with a 1.5l engine - not a 2.0l version. Any feedback would be welcome or indeed of the PHEV version of other models. Hope this makes sense…..

After 4 days we have her back. Broken gearbox seals. What does that mean? How can they break? Anyhow, job done. For now. We had a Superb Estate as a courtesy car and I cannot believe how low it is to get into or how easy it is too bump your shoulder getting in. Is it me or am I getting older?

Just a reminder, with personalisation you need to use both keys frequently otherwise great man in cloud says I do not recognise you and you have to relog in remembering your password! At least it does not have to be 16 digits long alphanumeric etc. Yet. All part of VW's view of security which just makes life difficult for you.

Old dealer stock and so is over 12m old. We have known mechanic for years and our instincts say trust him. Lively man. Apparently he is fascinated by leak and by booking it in for a week gives him time to dismantle things, order parts as required and reassemble within a generous time frame. Superb Estates are fine by us. Two goldies fit in nicely.

P.s. Leak small, no evidence on drive but there is a cover under engine which would catch it I would imagine. Fact car booked in for 3 weeks time confirms this. I hope!!