Months without posting and now 3 in 3 days!

 

I gave my Kodiaq 7 seater a good post winter interior clean yesterday.  She was filthy frankly...I was quite ashamed (but got over that feeling quickly!).  All the hard and soft plastic trim was cleaned with Autoglym interior shampoo which is brilliant I find.  I gave the carpets, which are protected by OE rubber tailored mats, a damn good dry hoover with my trusty Henry. Old Henry successfully lifted all the crud and I 'found' various coinage (claimed by my sons already!), 4 boiled sweets (one half sucked... which no one has claimed), 3 train tickets which my Finance Dept have been bending my ear over as they form part of non-evidenced travel claims, a pair of sunglasses which I'd given up hope of ever seeing again, a debit card which I cancelled 6 months ago thinking it was stolen, my Montblanc pen and numerous sweet wrappers!  I also found a carpet that appears, much like me in my 53'd year, to be loosing it's hair (fibres).  My car is just 2 years old. The carpets have always been protected with quality mats. The areas affected are where a foot would brush over it rather than stand on.  A fibre bloom is the result which looks crap. I'm tempted to shave it. 

 

To me it seems Skoda keep prices lower than the competition by using lower quality interior trim and furnishings. My Octavia MK1 had an interior that seemed better screwed together and I currently run a 17 year old Audi Allroad with 170,000 miles on the clock but with, guess what, a still perfect carpet. No signs of any fibre bloom there.  I'm tempted to visit the supplying dealer for a view as I do wonder what the carpet will look like in 2 further years when I plan on changing her. 

 

I'd be interested in any views or observations on this. Is it something affecting the entire Skoda range or just Kodiaq 7 seaters. 

Skoda carpet has always been low grade, I've had two MkII Octavia's, a MkIII Octavia, a MkII Superb and now the Kodiaq.

 

I've never had an issue with premature wear though as they've always been covered with genuine floor and boot mats.

10 minutes ago, silver1011 said:

Skoda carpet has always been low grade, I've had two MkII Octavia's, a MkIII Octavia, a MkII Superb and now the Kodiaq.

 

I've never had an issue with premature wear though as they've always been covered with genuine floor and boot mats.

Agree essential to have genuine Skoda overmats to cover the poor quality factory carpets. Cleaning SWMBO Karoq boot recently and the carpet there is not covered by a boot liner and was very difficult to get stuff off it easily.