22 minutes ago, Berisford said:

Given my comments above and on the the other air-con thread I have a number of temperature sensors/displays fitted in and around the vehicle, namely, inside face vent, inside foot-well vent, rear foot-well area and just below the Amundsen screen.

 

Recently returned from a trip to the Aips and was running with air-con on much of the time...........

 

Cabin Temperature: Apart from opening the windows on initial start-up it was impossible to reduce it by any meaningful amount, in fact the cabin temp in the front screen area and rear foot-wells was constantly more than the outside temperature.

 

Vent Temperature (face and foot-well): Not as low as I'd like, often running as high as 12c with the best seen being 9.5c and that was with outside range between 25c and 30c. 

 

Curiously, despite the lack of 'low' temp air from the vents I did feel cool enough in myself, however, the moment I shut the face vent blowing on me I was struck with how warm the cabin was.

 

Assuming my system is operating to the correct spec I really can't believe that Karoq is fitted with the same air-con system the world over, it's just not powerful enough.

Since changing the settings from cold to colder (using the app Carista) I have noticed the aircon to be performing better, but only when the face vents are aimed directly at my face. Comparing my 2018 Karoq Edition to a 2019 basic Fabia's aircon, the Fabia's face vents are ice cold whereas mine are just cold. Before I used Carista the dealer said my Karoq aircon was working to specification. With Britain getting hotter, the first thing I will check when I test drive my next car purchase is how cold the aircon gets!

8 minutes ago, FabFabFabia said:

.... the first thing I will check when I test drive my next car purchase is how cold the aircon gets!

 

Indeed, in fact I was aware that modern air-con systems struggle compared to the older types but my Karoq 'test-drive' was in December and, as you would expect, it did indeed feel cold.......the salesman assured me that I wouldn't be disappointed.....hmmm, words were cheap!