G’day. 

New to Skoda with a ‘20 Karoq bought in January. 

Last two days I’ve been on relatively steep inclines on which I needed to reverse. 

 Selected Reverse and took foot off the brake and the vehicle rolled forward, near to a post. 

Lightly engaged the accelerator but still rolled. 

Fully engaged the accelerator, lots of noise but little change on how rpm indicator,  just held off the roll forward, and edged back sufficiently for me to get out of the awkward spot. 

Today a little Suzuki was parked behind me, and it managed to reverse satisfactorily. 

What am I doing incorrectly?

Michael

You should have kept the parking brake engaged while starting reversing.

The brake would release automatically when the torque applied is high enough to push the car uphill without any slack.

 

Edited 7 August, 20205 yr by agedbriar

Did you have Hill Hold operating? Manual or DSG gearbox?

Thank you. 

Auto DSG. 

Back to the owners’ manual. 

Had to reverse my 1.5 dsg up a slope last week. I was facing a wall and it was a bit disconcerting when it rolled forward, probably just an inch, before the gearbox got the car moving. 

tom

Remember the days when we had to hold the car on the hand brake till the clutch bit and held! 

Those were the days 😁 Much easier now as long as the auto hand brake works.🤣