Just about to visit family for Christmas involving a 2 hour motorway trip so thought I would check the tyre pressures. Why on earth does it say a completely different pressure on the fuel flap than that found on line. I always throughout it seemed far too high especially on the fully loaded option. I will keep it at the 31 I found it was on after the service last week but concerned that I have previously set it far too high and the fuel flap figures are wrong.

Where is the online info from? Link?

Unless from an official Skoda site I wouldn't trust it to be correct. 

Edited 23 December, 20223 yr by Breezy_Pete

The online info is wrong.  It does say it is only a guide and you should use those in the fuel flap.  So why don't you believe the ones in the fuel flap on the car that will be the correct ones?

That was Kwik Fit but National Tyres was the same as well as other tyre pressure sites I have found. Because the Skoda dealer lowered them from the 37psi I had them on at the service down to 30. Why would all on line checkers be wrong 

It only takes one piece of online info to be assumed correct for others to copy it. 

It's very easy to put stuff online.

Edited 23 December, 20223 yr by Breezy_Pete

Here you go, from the "horse's mouth"

 

In your defense, I will say that VAG have been known to put the wrong label in the fuel flap (rare, but does happen)

Sadly the sticker does match what is in the maintenance book, so that means dealer has under inflated your tyres!

4 hours ago, DManPoole said:

I will keep it at the 31

Which is maybe 2.1bar. The 2.5 in the fuel filler is about 37 or 38 PSI.

From the first time I ever had the misfortune to use a tyre fitting place some 45 years ago it has been my experience that  mechanics and tyre fitters inflate all tyres to 30 psi because they can't be ar5ed to look up individual figures, back then that may have been a reasonable average and not unsafe, with todays stupid rim sizes and rubber band tyres it is dangerously underinflated for most vehicles.

 

Given that most of the spotty youths in Kwik-fit were not born back then, nor their parents either I'm surprised that the old figure is still being passed on and accepted unthinkingly (well not the latter actually!) it should be something like 2.5 bar these days, I know they should not use a general figure and inflate the tyres correctly for the vehicle but that ain't gonna happen in my lifetime!

17 minutes ago, J.R. said:

From the first time I ever had the misfortune to use a tyre fitting place some 45 years ago it has been my experience that  mechanics and tyre fitters inflate all tyres to 30 psi because they can't be ar5ed to look up individual figures, back then that may have been a reasonable average and not unsafe, with todays stupid rim sizes and rubber band tyres it is dangerously underinflated for most vehicles.

 

 

Under inflate the tyres and over torque the wheel fasteners, tyre fitting golden rules😂

On 23/12/2022 at 18:58, varooom said:

Here you go, from the "horse's mouth"

 

Hello everybody. What do You think about earlier Maintenance edition from 2020?

 

30 minutes ago, Allesandu said:

Hello everybody. What do You think about earlier Maintenance edition from 2020?

They will be different, look closer at the profiles

 

215/45 R18 the 2022 document

205/45 R18 the 2020 document

On 24/06/2023 at 23:49, varooom said:

They will be different, look closer at the profiles

 

215/45 R18 the 2022 document

205/45 R18 the 2020 document

Ok. But what about R16, R17?

53 minutes ago, Allesandu said:

Ok. But what about R16, R17?

What does it say on the fuel-filler flap?

56 minutes ago, Allesandu said:

Ok. But what about R16, R17?

I can see differences in the pictures, so not sure why you don't.  The profile of the tyres are not the same between the two documents, but I have not opened the file to look.

 

I didn't produce the document, VAG did.

 

Why they are different is a question for them.

2 hours ago, varooom said:

Why they are different is a question for them.

You are absolutely right.

I should have written the question to main thread not for You

2 hours ago, EnterName said:

What does it say on the fuel-filler flap?

As in Maintenance file from 2022

1 minute ago, Allesandu said:

You are absolutely right.

I should have written the question to main thread not for You

All questions are valid, I did see in the older image that there are two PR Codes listed for 2x suspensions.

Then they removed this in new document 🤔

 

VAG are weird.

I wondered if there are any more thoughts on this matter?

 

Having just added a Kamiq to the family "fleet", I, too, am bemused by the tyre pressures at 2.5bar, especially as the Karoq states 2.1Bar.  So that's roughly 36PSI vs 30.

 

We had a Tiguan before the Karoq and that was 36 all round and the consensus on the Karoq forum seems to be to run at somewher towards 36 and that's what we do.

 

However 36 seems bonkers for Kamiq, and the tyres certainly look very inflated.  I guess one reason for keeping the pressures up would be to hope to try and protect the wheeels from pothole damage - at 45% profile there's not an awful lot of sidewall there.  I hope it doesn't make the car too skittish though.

Edited 3 November, 20232 yr by Rory

Worth trying Skoda customer services for more detail explaining the concerns?

I'd never have questioned the fuel flap detail at those figures.

Edited 3 November, 20232 yr by Stoker

I suppose I could try that for amusement value, based on some of the answers I've had over the years on VW and SEAT queries,

 

You're not actually dealing with Skoda, VW Group UK contracts out customer service to an American owned company (TTEC) so they don't have to sully themselves dealing directly with customers.   They once aswered a SEAT query completely as if the car was an Audi!