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We have an 85 Edition which we've had now since the end of March 2025. It's just coming up to 20,000 miles. We went to EV after having a plug in hybrid. We bought the PHEV as a step up to the full EV, but frankly it was a waste of money as it was neither one thing or the other. We bought the 85 to get the best range. We visit our son and grandsons which is a 220 mile round trip which the 85 does with ease in the summer, but only just makes it in the winter unless you charge to 100%. We also bought the MAXX pack which probably was a waste of money as half the features we haven't and are never likely to use. We charge mainly at home on Octopus go, so it's much cheaper to run than anything with an engine. On good days in the summer, we can get 4.4 miles/kWh, in the winter it's more like 3.6. It is scarily quick if you floor it, so great for overtaking, but in general we stick to the speed limits which is why we get decent range. We never do anything daft like turning aircon off, just to get a few extra miles. It's not a brilliant tow car, so I had to buy a smaller trailer, but I wouldn't go back to an ICE. The one fault I'd find with it is the amount of tech which, for the youngsters I'm sure is a boon, but for a 77 year old, it can be a bit of a nightmare.

We're fortunate to live in the South West of Scotland so we don't do anything as uncivilised as motorways or traffic jams. Went for a jaunt to Dumfries today, air conditioning on but no boy racer stuff. 130 miles @ 4.4 miles/kWh. So home charge tonight 30kWh @ 4.9p/kWh on Octopus Go = £1.47. That's less than a litre of petrol, so suits me fine.

It's nice to come across someone who's ordered the foldable tow bar. I decided against it and then had it fitted aftermarket by our local Skoda Dealer and it cost just about double. I don't know what you'll be towing, but we have an Ifor Williams P8 unbraked trailer, which the car handles fine, but it does kill the range, even when it's empty. But the cars great. Ours is an Edition 85, it's done 17000 miles and we love it. I'm sure you'll enjoy yours, although I guess you'll miss the space of the Superb.

Seems now that, according to the latest brochure, only the Sportline 85 and the VRS get 255 tyres on the rear, and that's on 20" wheels. 85 Edition now gets 235/55 R19 101T on both front and rear. Presumably that means changing to the smaller width won't cause any problems.

We need to replace a tyre on our Elroq 85 Edition. It was supplied new with 235/55 R19 101T on the fronts and 255/55 R19 104T on the rear. Is there a legit reason for having different sizes or is it just Skoda trying to save a few pennies. I guess the question is " could we go with the 255/50 R19 104T on the fronts as well as the rear?"

With observations, I'm ashamed to say that having driven our 85 Edition for 11k miles over the past 9 months, I only discovered this weekend how to wash the rear view camera ☹️

on ours the pump and sealant are in moulding of the false floor, under the carpet just behind the rear seats. Quite why it's that far back, I have no idea.

We have an Edition 85' but I'm not aware of it having self sealing tyres. That always seemed a VW thing rather than Skoda. Our car has 255 wide tyres which, presumably is because of the weight of the car. Personally, I wouldn't want to run it on a space saver steel wheel. In any case, I think you'd be pushing your luck to jack the car up with anything less than a 3 tonne trolly jack and I guess you wouldn't keep one of those in the boot.

I've posted before with issues that I had with IOG. I got fed up with jumping in the car only to find that it hadn't charged. In the end I went back to the original Octopus Go. It doesn't need to communicate with the car or the charger. It's about 1p kWh more expensive and 1 hr a night less, but for me it's worth it not to have the hassle.

Our Elroq was build week 9 which was week commencing 24th Feb. It was shipped through Port of Tyne and we had it standing on our drive on 27th March. Not sure how it happened but we missed the Expensive car supplement part of RFL which came in on 1st April.

I'm not sure I can answer your questions re the 50SE as we have an 85 Edition, so providing some of the specs align - The Elroq does have cabin preconditioning, although I can't comment on how good it is as we haven't used it yet, but the car lives in a cosy garage. It does have blind spot detection on both side mirrors. With charging, there are loads of options. We don't have a smart charger, but basically we have an uprated granny type charger running from a 32A Command socket, so it still does 7.4kW, the same as a smart charger. I would have gone for a smart charger, but I wanted the charger in the garage which is detached from the house and a good distance from the meter, so we don't have a CT on the incoming supply, but we do have a 100A main fuse. We have installed PEN protection on the Commando supply, which would normally be included in a smart charger. We use standard Octopus Go which gives us cheap rate 8.5p/kWh between 0.30 and 5.30 so, 1.5p/kWh more than Intelligent Octopus and 1 hr less. We've tried Intelligent Octopus, but as we don't have a smart charger, they have to communicate directly with the car. Mostly it worked, but some times it didn't. In a nightly charging session, it might schedule 10 different charging slots, which the car seemingly didn't like so communication was lost on some occasions. I went back to Octopus Go as they don't have to communicate with anything. We just schedule the car to charge during the cheap rate and it works. Normally we plug in when the battery is around 45% and it charges back to 80% with no problem. If the battery is down to 20% we'd charge over 2 nights, which isn't a problem for us. It just means we have to pre plan our longer journeys. Before the Elroq, we had a Volvo XC40 PHEV which we never fell in love with, but we did have a good poke around the EX30 while the XC40 was in for service and didn't like that either. Seems smaller than the Elroq and less user friendly. To be fair, we didn't drive it so shouldn't really be disparaging about it. Finally, I don't think a 13A granny charger is even available as on option, although a 32A one is, but it's quite pricy. I'm not sure if any of my ramblings help or not, but good luck.

I've posted before about IOG. We don't have a Smart Charger so we've been using IOG with Octopus communicating directly with the car. It worked fine until we went on a lengthy journey when we used public charging. When we got back, IOG seem not to be able to communicate with the car, so every day the charge fails. Seriously thinking about going back to standard Octopus Go and using scheduled charging. Has anyone else had issues?

Seems daft that they don't have 1 spec for the whole of Europe. We have the Suite interior which has perforated leather so it would be easy for them to add ventilation. I think the massage seats are a waste of time, and I would gladly swap them for ventilated.

Thanks Paul. Missus has been moaning about it since we took delivery. Peace on two fronts now 🤣🤣

Can I ask how you do that? I've pressed every thing I can find so far with no success. I'm not the best when it comes to tech.

I had 2 Yetis. Wanted red but wasn't allowed as the missus said it would look like Postman Pats van. After that, I was allowed a Velvet Red Karoq, and since then, I've had a red Octy Scout, a red Volvo XC40 and now I've got a Velvet Red Elroq 85 Edition. I like red 🤣🤣🤣

I happens automatically. I just set the car on "charge immediately", plug the car in and then just reach in and press "stop charging", lock the car and walk away. On the Octopus app it asks what time you want it tomorrow and what charge level and then they set a schedule (which often changes during the night) I reality, they might charge at 7 in the evening for half an hour and again at 9.30, you can never tell what they're actually going to do, but the car is always charged when I want it. When you get your monthly electricity bill, you'll see all the slots where it has been charged outside the 11.30 - 05.30 time slots are charged at 7p/kWh. The only downside for me is that the in-house display for the smart meter doesn't actually know that it's being charged at 7p so the electricity costs shown look horrendous. It's never as bad when you get the actual bill. 🙂

Yes I am now using IOG. We don't have a smart charger as we have have a trailing 32A charger from Third Rock Energy plugged into a commando socket. As its not intelligent, it doesn't need an app. Every morning I get notifications from Octopus saying they couldn't communicate with the car but, every morning it's charged anyway. I have to ignore our in-house display for electricity. When Octopus decide to charge the car during the day, the in-house display records the cost at 27p kWh so the cost at the end of the week looks pretty scary. I see that tonight between 23.30 and 5.30 in the morning, cheap rate is 3.5p kWh rather that 7p

Curious goings on with the towbar these days. In the price list it states that the towbar isn't available with the Plus, Advanced and Maxx packs. Not entirely sure why, unless it's to do with the electric boot. I guess if you opened the boot using the switch on the drivers door while you had a bike rack and bikes on the back it would make a mess, although we had a Karoq with the electric boot and the switch was disabled while anything was plugged into the towbar. Although it says it's not suitable in the price list, the configurator lets you add both. We had the same factory towbar fitted aftermarket by our local Skoda Retailer and they never mentioned any issue with the Maxx pack. Fortunately, we never have anything but a trailer on the back so the boot would open ok anyway

What did you order?. Did they say how long you'd have to wait? I think it has to be delivery after 1st September for the grant, so you'll get a 75 plate.

I don't think they're available. They are mentioned on the online operator manual, but I've never seen them in any UK spec information. Apparently, in markets where they are available, the control is on the Infotainment screen, next to the heated seat control. It shows a picture of a seat with a blue fan symbol which has 3 speeds (much like the heated seat with its 3 heat levels). It seems that MY26 build cars will begin manufacture in September, so whether it will be available then, who knows? We have suite interior in our Elroq, and the seats cushions are perforated leather, so you'd think ventilated would be a fairly simple option.

It does seem strange. Previously our XC40 was the same so we sort of got used to it. On the theme of getting used to it, when we took the Elroq in the get the towbar fitted, they gave us a Seat Arona. It had a noisy, smelly engine thing in the front and an old fashioned DSG lever between the seats. It was a long journey home as most cars we couldn't catch and the one we did catch we daren't overtake as we didn't have 3 miles of clear road in front. To add insult to injury, we had to put petrol in it before taking it back. I guess the point I'm making is that some things are easier to get used to than others🤣🤣

We've had our Elroq since 28th March (great timing to avoid the expensive car RFL supplement) We've done about 4000 miles around the South West of Scotland and I think we've seen three, although I think one we've seen twice as it's local. The local one is Race Blue and the other one we saw was Timiano Green. I fancied Timiano when we ordered ours but daren't risk it as I hadn't seen it, so went for Velvet Red instead. Timiano's quite nice when you see it in the flesh. Our's went in to the dealers this week to have the towbar fitted. Not sure why I didn't order it with the car. Must have been a senior moment. The towbar is exactly the same as the factory fitted option, except that its about £400 more expensive. The good news is that, after 4000 miles, I still can't find anything bad about it.

second time went ok and the car charged ready for when we asked. I'm not sure how long it took for Octopus to take over. It's already plugged in and a charge schedule set by Octopus today, but next time, I'm going to try timjfw5's suggestion

We have Intelligent Octopus Go and we don't have a smart charger. Octopus communicate directly with the car and schedules at anytime to suit the grid loading, as long as the car is plugged in. When you plug the car in, the app just asks when you want it charged by and to what charge level (normal for us 80%) and then woks out the schedule from that info. First night didn't go too well as I had the car set on scheduled charge, so Octopus couldn't connect until the cat kicked in at 23.30. As far as they were concerned, it wasn't plugged in. The second day, I left the car set on "charge immediately". After about 10 minutes Octopus took over and scheduled 1 charge during the afternoon (at cheap rate) and a second charge in the early hours of the morning. Net result was car charged when we wanted. Should get easier when I get used to it. Meantime, I have to ignore the in-house display, as I think it calculates the afternoon charge at 27p/kWh, rather than 7p. Hopefully make more sense when we get our first monthly bill since changing over from normal Octopus Go. 🤞🤞