On 25/11/2020 at 14:33, shyVRS245 said:

Been quite some time since I did a detailed update on my wife's Moon White Karoq which we bought on 26th January 2018. The original Braga 18" alloys and Michelin Primacy 3 tyres (215/50R18 front wheel drive size) are sitting in our garage after 27,000 miles on the car. It is currently fitted with the 19" Superb Vega alloys which are 1" wider at 8" and have Bridgestone S001 Performance tyres in 235/40R19 dimension. These have increased fuel consumption by around 10% but I have been impressed by the increased grip in corners and very little extra tyre roar and still excellent ride comfort. Starting the year after 23 months ownership the car had done 22,500 miles and 11 months later it has now covered 28,336 miles. The main reason for the reduction is that my wife like so many now works from home so only uses it for home visits and when helping her service users with shopping. She is a Social Worker dealing with Adults With Learning Difficulties. The good news for us is that the Council pay a generous mileage expenses when she uses the car for work so she usually gets more for her mileage than the monthly fill up requires. This year I have put 572.80 litres of regular unleaded at a total cost of £623.97 and the car has covered 5,795 miles (126 gallons exactly) which works out at an average of 45.99mpg which is not too far from the indicated 46.4mpg Long Term figure in the maxidot onboard computer. We have had no problems this year following 2 issues last year which were resolved around the car's only service so far at 18,700 miles in October 2019. They were just to recap the long awaited software update which has improved the cold engine skippy nature of the car from new which seems to be low torque related and possibly connected to the alternator. It has not completely gone but is much more driveable than before. Another issue which many early KESSY equipped Karoq's suffer from was the failure of both key fobs in quick succession after 21 months which was diagnosed eventually to a batch of faulty key fobs which were both replaced under warranty thankfully. The second service (variable service plan) is not due until October 2021 when the brake fluid will be changed for the first time. The first MOT is due in just 2 months time and the original wipers (all 3 of them) are still in excellent condition and they will also be replaced at the second service which should be at around 35,000 miles. The gearbox has been getting better with age and is now very slick even comparing to the 6 speed manual on my previous Octavia Vrs245. Compared to my current 150PS diesel 2020 Superb DSG the Karoq feels like a sports car owing to it's relatively light 1,360kg kerbweight. The Superb is around 1,500kg and takes about 10 seconds to get to 60mph (but compensates with 66mpg average so far) whereas the Karoq does the sprint in around 8.5 seconds. Overall we are very pleased with the car and it replaced a top of the range Skoda Rapid SE Sport 1.2TSi 6 speed manual which also averaged around 46mpg over 28,500 miles and 3 years between 2015 and 2018. We find the high standard spec of the SEL and the practical 3 rear vario flex seats which can fold up cinema style or can be removed completely so if you need to load long or bulky items (I used the Karoq to collect laminate flooring boards for our kitchen, lounge and master bedroom) it is as practical as the Roomster or Yeti were before it. We paid £23,500 including metallic paint and the RRP is now around £27,500 before discounts. We like this car so much we plan to keep it for 10 years and then sell it when we retire and move to a sunnier climate somewhere.

Having yourself a DSG, would you reckon it would have been better the Karoq was also dsg rather than manual? My Karoq Edition is arriving to the UK soon but I somehow regret not having it on DSG...

13 hours ago, TAY18 said:

Having yourself a DSG, would you reckon it would have been better the Karoq was also dsg rather than manual? My Karoq Edition is arriving to the UK soon but I somehow regret not having it on DSG...

Not really on two counts. The car was only £23,500 new including Moon White metallic paint (no other options because we liked the standard SEL spec) with a discount of £1,500 from Skoda, then I honestly believe the 6 speed manual in the Karoq is more economical than the 7 speed DSG which adds weight also just look at our overall 46mpg over 29,000 miles which is good for a petrol 150PS SUV shaped spacious family car. The DSG works better with a diesel like my Superb plus in the winter if it snows I take the Karoq because you have more control in bad weather with a manual gearbox than with the DSG. A new Karoq with DSG and metallic paint now costs more than the Edition did 3 years ago and I was seriously tempted at the time to order a manual Edition with the beige leather interior and red paint instead. The Alcantara interior of our SEL also looks like a brand new car and friends have commented how premium the interior looks and feels for a Skoda.

Just having 2 weeks off work (need to use up some annual leave) and start laying laminate flooring in 3 bedrooms and assembling a new wardrobe next Monday to stop me getting bored so filled the wife's Karoq as it approaches 1,100 hours driving in the 3 years since we bought it. Average speed has been around 26mph but over the last 100 hours I have been driving it more and the frequent motorway commutes have resulted in just over 3,000 miles in the last 6 months. Recent tank should now last until early March and it did 363 miles using 40.02 litres (8.80 gallons) for an average of 41.25mpg (indicated 43.1mpg on maxidot). Next update next month.

As the sun was shining yesterday, went for a 30min drive around Epping Forest & beyond, with a view to getting out and stretching our legs & feeding the ducks - but it was so busy we just carried on driving.  It's fairly hilly + a few traffic lights en route, but little traffic.  Hardly steady driving on 50% narrow winding roads but 41mpg actual in 1.0 DSG.

Something I noticed when I removed the rear parcel shelf recently is that there was a Czech Republic manufacturing sticker which had the date of12/12/2017 which is probably close to the car’s manufactured date.

This is the 38 month update and not much to report in the 5 weeks since the MOT with just 486 miles driven and filled up today first time in a month with 35.19 litres at a cost of £41.34 (£1.189 per litre). Just 307 miles elapsed at 39.66 mpg. The last 3 months has seen just 863 miles driven using 98.21 litres (21.60 gallons) for a similar average of 39.95 mpg. Total miles covered now is 29,486 and it will take 5-6 weeks at this rate to reach 30,000 miles.

16 months in, and I've added only 2.5k miles in last 12 months, the first 8k in the first 4 months of its life; but then during C19 I've not travelled anywhere on business. I've also never got more than 42 mpg on any kind of long run (I commute occasionally to London from West Wales), and that was driving it really carefully. The problem is that I'm now paying for a PCP contract for a mileage that I'm never going to achieve, so I'm going to chop it in for either a Scala or a corolla hybrid. I've not lost al interest in driving and have resigned myself to becoming obsessed by fuel economy as I slowly shuffle towards retirement!