Anyone with 4x4, fixed seats, and a spare wheel?

[Guest]

I find Škoda Karoq to be the most universal car in the European market today: compact as Golf (width and length), spaceous as Passat (cargo), and reliable as Land Rover (snow, ice, and rain).

 

Yet, I still need to make some trade-offs to get the most out of it. Especially, with two six-footers (6"0 - 6"2) in the front – and sometimes in the back, as well.

 

To optimize for legroom, headroom, and kneeroom:

 

- No varioflex seats

- No folding tables

- No sunroof

 

To optimize for cargo space:

 

- Folding front passenger seat

- Variable boot floor

- No Canton audio system

 

To optimize for off-road:

 

- 1.5 TSI 4x4

- A spare wheel

 

My questions:

 

- Is sit possible to fit a full-size spare wheel instead of wasting space with a variable boot floor on a 4x4 with standard (fixed) seats?

 

- How does the highest-raised boot floor on Karoq look like?

 

I would prefer the flattest possible cargo surface with all the passenger seats folded down, and the lowest possible boot-lip for loading.

 

Is this the maximum flatness Škoda Karoq can achieve across all available configurations?

 

 

Seat Ateca looks better in this regard:

 

 

Volkswagen Tiguan even more so:

 

 

And Peugeot 3008 looks the best:

 

[Guest]

To put it simply: I would like to keep a 17" Ratikon / Triton wheel under the boot floor of Karoq 4x4 with fixed rear seats, to eliminate the boot lip and the need for a variable boot floor.

 

Is that technically possible?

[Guest]

It's almost impossible to find any pictures or reviews of Škoda Karoq in this configuration:

 

 

It wasn't attractive in the beginning, because the fixed seats didn't include the ski hatch / arm rest.

 

But now they do (or has it always been an optional extra?):

 

 

And it's a real arm rest, not just some kind of a hole in the luggage department one has to lean on with his entire body.

 

Also, a hard boot cover provides an additional storage space and a complete isolation of the boot, no matter how old-school it looks like.

 

But most importantly, the boot is bigger (521 vs 479 litres) without varioflex seats – not only the rear passenger space.

 

So, just like 19" alloy wheels and a sunroof, I think varioflex seats can often take away more than they actually provide.

 

For this reason, I would love to see Karoq with a fully flat cargo space without any seats being taken out.

Edited 28 December, 2018 by Guest

[erikiri]

For 4x4 Karoq there is only space saver type of spare wheel available from factory. Here is the picture of 4x4 with narrow spare wheel, 2-side boot floor cover, no varioflex seat, no Canton.

 

In such case boot lip is 4-5 cm and I like it, asi t helps to keep some type of cargo fixed. With higher boot floor you would loose too much space also. Don´t forget to pull out headrests of backseats for few centimeters, it helps to get slightly more paralleel boot floor.

Edited 3 January, 2019 by erikiri

[Guest]

Thank you very much.

 

In terms of the lowest boot lip / highest boot floor, it then seems to be the same in these three configurations:

 

4x4 + space saver wheel =

4x2 + full-size wheel =

4x2 + variable boot floor

 

 

Edited 3 January, 2019 by Guest