Can anyone please tell me if the Karoq sel has park assist as standard.     Thanks

No......£320

As per above, it's not std on any model here in UK. 

 

£320 option and if you specify it, may involve a longer wait. I wanted self-parking on my car but rather than wait 3 weeks for a car that was waiting to be shipped,  it would have been almost a 4mth wait for a brand new build.

 

Must admit, I have it on the Octavia and I'm a tad sick I didn't order it for the Karoq.

Park assist must be one of the least useful extras for the price. If its so difficult to park a car perhaps a bus or taxi is a better option.

I would opt for it, it will give you side ultrasonic parking sensors as part of the £320, as they are used as part of the park assist, but we never use park assist, i added them so that you get a better alerting system to parking, and it tells you of people on motorcycles next to you who squeeze through the gaps when in traffic.

 

And also, you will have a button blank where the park assist would have been, and i cant stand having a model with buttons blanked off/packs missing!

1 hour ago, Breezy said:

Park assist must be one of the least useful extras for the price. If its so difficult to park a car perhaps a bus or taxi is a better option.

 

I keep hearing this all the time and I agree £320 is rather expensive. But I'll counter your argument with this:  Next time you go out for a walk, pay attention to other folks alloy wheels and you'll find over 75% of folk obviously find it difficult to park a car. With cars such as the Renault Clio higher spec models with 17" alloys which sit proud of the tyre...  I've never seen one where the wheels have not been damaged. Now thay can't all be bad drivers.

 

If I say it myself, I'm pretty confident at parking cars even in the tightest of spaces, but with park assist I don't even have to think about it, it parks perfectly every time. Don't knock it until you've used it. Now as for lane assist and adaptive cruise control... don't get me started. 

Edited 6 December, 20196 yr by Guest

2 minutes ago, Scot5 said:

 

I keep hearing this all the time and I agree £320 is rather expensive. But I'll counter your argument with this:  Next time you go out for a walk, pay attention to other folks alloy wheels and you'll find over 75% of folk obviously find it difficult to park a car. With cars such as the Renault Clio higher spec models with 17" alloys which sit proud of the tyre...  I've never seen one where the wheels have not been damaged. Now thay can't all be bad drivers.

 

If I say it myself, I'm pretty confident at parking cars even in the tightest of spaces, but with park assist...  I don't even have to think about it, it parks perfectly every time. Don't knock it until you've used it. Now as for lane assist and adaptive cruise control... don;t get me started. 

Yeh,,,might have been a slightly harsh comment, though I have had it on a previous car and used it only once, when I first bought it.. To me it just seems an almost pointless addition. The fact you “don't even have to think about it” is good enough reason not to have it. You should always have to think when manoeuvring a vehicle...those systems are good but they are not fail safe. I can see however that for someone with limited mobility or stiffness in the neck it could be a Godsend. Anyhoo, each to their own.

 

1 hour ago, Scot5 said:

Next time you go out for a walk, pay attention to other folks alloy wheels and you'll find over 75% of folk obviously find it difficult to park a car. With cars such as the Renault Clio higher spec models with 17" alloys which sit proud of the tyre...  I've never seen one where the wheels have not been damaged. Now they can't all be bad drivers.

 

Be aware though, that there are regular complaints about Park Assist dragging alloy wheels along kerbs, so it isn't always the soft fleshy lump behind the wheel that is at fault 

I have park assist, but not used it yet. My understanding is that it lines itself up with the car in front and the one behind, not the kerb. So if they are touching the kerb and damaging their wheels then so might you. I will let you know when  I have tried it.

37 minutes ago, silver1011 said:

 

Be aware though, that there are regular complaints about Park Assist dragging alloy wheels along kerbs, so it isn't always the soft fleshy lump behind the wheel that is at fault 

 

Never experienced this, if anything it's too far away from kerb for my liking on the Octavia. But with 225/40/19 tyres on the Karoq, I can't park it far away enough from the kerb   They're going to get damaged at some stage so just going to have to accept it.

 

The only concern I have with the system is I'm not quite sure what the car is thinkng. On occassion I've meant to parallel park, but the car has produced a bay parking symbol. I then reverse as instructed albeit very, VERY slowly. It's always parked correctly mind you but it does makes you think. Reverse bay parking can be OK, then again it can take more turns than necessary, but driving in to a bay?  Tried it once, it required a 5-point turn !

 

One thing I didn't realise until after a year of using the system, that the car can drive out of a parallel parking spot on it's own. Seems a bit gimmicky but might help a 4ft 5" driver who can't see over the dash.

2 hours ago, Scot5 said:

 

Never experienced this, if anything it's too far away from kerb for my liking on the Octavia. But with 225/40/19 tyres on the Karoq, I can't park it far away enough from the kerb   They're going to get damaged at some stage so just going to have to accept it.

Why are they going to get damaged? Ive managed the last nine years without damaging any alloys on my cars.

 

23 minutes ago, Breezy said:

Why are they going to get damaged? Ive managed the last nine years without damaging any alloys on my cars.

 

 

Obviously park assist is a waste of money for people with luck on their side. For the vast majority of others ( have you taken that walk and checked out alloys on Joe Average's car? ) it can be a useful aid.

 

As for your above comment about having to think about parking ( a rather stupid and ignorant comment if I may say ), I'm talking about turning a steering wheel in to a tight position. I can concentrate 100% on where the car is going...  I don't have to look out my front window to judge if I'm missing the car in front because the system is does it for me. As confident a parker as I am I don't always manage to line up correctly every single time. And neither do you. Park assist does. If I, nor anyone else didn't think it worked then we wouldn't use it.  Please don't pass comment as if we're stupid.

 

Can I ask what your experience of using park assist is? because it sounds very much like you're addressing this from a position of ignorance. I bet you've used it once or twice and given up. I had the system on my Ford, and I gave up after a few times because the system wasn't that accurate and time consuming. On the VAG it's different - easy peasy, much easier than controlling the car yourself. 

 

 

Edited 6 December, 20196 yr by Guest

1 hour ago, Scot5 said:

 

Obviously park assist is a waste of money for people with luck on their side. For the vast majority of others ( have you taken that walk and checked out alloys on Joe Average's car? ) it can be a useful aid.

 

As for your above comment about having to think about parking ( a rather stupid and ignorant comment if I may say ), I'm talking about turning a steering wheel in to a tight position. I can concentrate 100% on where the car is going...  I don't have to look out my front window to judge if I'm missing the car in front because the system is does it for me. As confident a parker as I am I don't always manage to line up correctly every single time. And neither do you. Park assist does. If I, nor anyone else didn't think it worked then we wouldn't use it.  Please don't pass comment as if we're stupid.

 

Can I ask what your experience of using park assist is? because it sounds very much like you're addressing this from a position of ignorance. I bet you've used it once or twice and given up. I had the system on my Ford, and I gave up after a few times because the system wasn't that accurate and time consuming. On the VAG it's different - easy peasy, much easier than controlling the car yourself. 

 

 

My experience of Park assist was with my VW Arteon. It works very well but I only used it a couple of times before going back to manual parking, None of the comments I have made were meant to make anyone sound stupid and your statement  that my comment was “rather stupid and ignorant” is both unwarranted and not in the spirit of the forum . I have no interest into getting into a silly tit for tat debate so will agree to disagree and move along.