I’m planning on changing the family car from a Superb to a Kodiaq 7-seater. 
 

We travel a fair bit with everyone on board (2 adults, 3 children, 1 labrador). In the Superb we have a custom dog guard which divides the boot and enables us to pile up luggage on one side, confident that the bags won’t squash the dog. 
 

I can’t see how we could achieve this in the Kodiaq… on a long journey we would put the ‘boot seats’ down but I wouldn’t want to take the divider in and out whenever I put the boot seats ip and down. 
 

Any tips from Kodiaq owners with dogs??

The Kodiaq cabin is different shape to Superb estate, the volume might not be hugely different, but it is taller inside, and the floor area is smaller.

 

Unless you plan to stack the luggage and dog vertically, (eg some on top of dog cage) or putting some luggage in footwell etc not a good idea to swap as can't reduce the area the dog needs to lie down.

 

 

Thanks… some sacrifice in luggage space is ok in order to gain increased comfort as the comparatively low-slung Superb isn’t great for us physically!

8 hours ago, tckirby said:

Any tips from Kodiaq owners with dogs??

I count 5 people… you don’t need the boot seats at all to accommodate 5. And to be fair, the boot is pretty much non existent with the boot seats up anyway, so unless you need to seat 6 or 7, or transport long boxes home from IKEA, they’re pretty pointless IMHO (and I’m on my second bear). Also getting in and out of them isn’t the easiest, plus there’s not much of a footwell so they’re no actually all that comfortable for anyone over the age of 11 or so, and especially not on long journeys. I’d be very surprised if you used them regularly.

 

We’ve got a TransK9 crate - it’s awesome, but takes up 2/3 of the width of the boot, so it tends to live in the garage when not in use. Probably easier than fitting and removing a guard though.

I ordered the split divider to accompany the TravelAll dog guard on my Octavia estate. Trouble was that the split divider would only fit on models that didn't have a two-level floor so had to return it.

 

From what I could gather, the specific dog guard for the Kodiaq only really differed in that the anchor point fixings were different so I simply made up new fixings and used the tailor-made Octavia dog guard for the Kodiaq. Depending on the make of dog guard you have, I reckon the same may apply to the custom superb guard. I'd be surprised if it didn't fit.

 

I very rarely have the type of luggage that would topple over so the dog sits in the boot. On the one occasion I did think luggage could move, I simply let the dog sit on one of the rearmost seats and split that off from the folded rear seat next to it with one of the luggage nets that came with the car. However if you already have a divider then I'd be sorely tempted to also adapt that to fit the height of the Kodiaq floor.

 

4 hours ago, Yogi-Bear said:

Also getting in and out of them isn’t the easiest, plus there’s not much of a footwell so they’re no actually all that comfortable for anyone over the age of 11 or so, and especially not on long journeys. I’d be very surprised if you used them regularly.

 

Completely unrelated to the OP topic, but I'm just back this weekend from a 3hr car journey with 4 passengers. Rather than have three in the back seat, I had a 6ft person in the front seat, a 6ft 2 person in the seat directly behind me, a 5ft 10 person in the seat behind the front passenger and the 5ft 3" passenger in the rearmost seat behind them. The 2/3 rear seat was slid forward and the 5ft 2 person was sat in the very back. I did say she could have lowered the middle seat back to give her more knee room but found she was perfectly comfortable back there as it was. 1.5hr journey each way and she never had a problem. And you can add 43 years  to your 11 year old estimation. 🤣  Other than kids (who actually prefer sitting at the very back), it's only the 3rd occasion I've had adults back there but nobody has ever complained - to my surprise, quite the opposite. Seems to be that anyone who's reasonably fit and under 5ft6 doesn't have an issue. I'm 5'10 and as long as the rear seat isn't slid all the way back, could easily sit back there for an hour.  Obviously a sunroof doesn't create more space but perhaps it helped create an illusion of there being more space.

 

Both rear seats were raised and there was still enough space to carry all 5 rucksacks behind the seats which is something you can't say for many 7 seaters. Doesn't matter what I throw at it, the Kodiaq always seems to have a solution. I'm not sure there's anything in that size / price range that can touch it.

 

I'm sure a labrador would be happy with it's own seat + it'd be able to easily see out the side window. It even has it's own cupholder. 🤣

 

 

Don’t get me wrong… the Kodiaq is by far and away the best and most versatile car I’ve ever had, and at the moment I can’t see past it for what my next car will be. Yes, there’s a lot more boot space even with the rear seats up than in a lot of 7-seaters, but it’s still not a massive space. It definitely struggles with boxes in that configuration because of the angle of the rear seats, but no, ‘soft’ things like rucksacks and the like are no problem at all.

 

Also, 1.5 hours isn’t a long journey - I was thinking more of 3-4 hours or longer.

I wouldn't sit in the driving seat for 3-4 hrs let alone the rear 🤣 

 

Back on story, I'd never have a dog sit that long either.

Edited 22 May, 20233 yr by kodiaqsportline

I previously owned a Superb estate and agree the Superb boot floor area told the Kodiaq. A few IKEA trips let me compare one with the other.

 

However, the Kodiaq ride height plus 7 seat option opens up other benefits. I’m also an infrequent user of my 7 seats (third time round) for my 5 grandchildren from 4 to 15.  From 3’6” to 5’10”.

 

The little ones do like to ride in row 3 for fun. I’ve never had to squeeze anyone over 21 in row 3. Short or otherwise 😀

 

At the we end of the day it’s people or baggage. Not both. 
 

People taxi or skip truck or removal van as necessary.

I always carry dogs in a cage, just changed cars from Octavia estate to Kodiaq VRS, can't just lift cage into Kodiaq due to seats 6 & 7 (folded down), cage has to be collapsed and assembled in car after seats 3, 4 and 5 are moved forward so you might have the same problem if yours has seven seats.

 

I also have a Labrador and a 7 seat Kodiaq. We got a cage from PawsHut, which sits nicely in the Kodiaq with seat 6 raised and have comfortably traveled with 4 adults, 1 giant teenager (6'3" and still growing), and a not so small 12 year old for up to 1.5 hours without problems.

 

Similarly with cage in the back and seats down we can get 2 suitcases in at the side of the cage as well as a coolbox and a few bags.

 

If really struggling, there is always the roofbox as an option...

 

 

I went from a Superb to a Kodiaq.. I have a boot liner from the superb which I use for dump runs etc, with the 3rd row seats down the two boot floors are nearly the same size...