36 minutes ago, Sanqhar said:

Am I reading this right you bought the car at 28000 miles and now approx 18/19 months later you have done 7000 miles.  That is not optimum usage for a modern diesel with dpf and egr.  

 

And if what he relates is to be believed the DPF has blocked a second time after being cleaned only a year ago.

 

I am not doubting the OP's word but not blindly believing those in the motor trade he is dealing with.

 

It does appear that his vehicle is unsuited to his journey profile.

 

I had the emissions fix rolled back on my Yeti, the best thing that I have ever done, I have interrupted only 2 regens in the last 18 months, before it was practically every journey in fact through VCDS logging it would happen several times during an 800km autoroute journey towing a barn fronted heavily (over)laden removal trailer at wide open throttle on every incline, 800kms of the ideal passive regen conditions including elevated oil temperature yet it would actively regen 3 times during the journey and then try again on every 20km journey the following week.

Cheers Rooted, I have been trying to resolve this since May of 2022 (first reported in March 2022). 

 

I wasn't made aware that I could take it to another dealership / approved repairer.  I had asked Skoda, on several occasions if I could go to another dealership, e.g. Glasgow / Edinburgh, or if they (Skoda) could send their own Technicians / Mechanics to examine the car (I cannot believe that a manufacturer can just walk away from their obligation to repair a vehicle when it is under warranty).

 

Neither can I believe, but understand why, that this forum has seen fit to delete Mr Turpin,s first name either!!! 

 

Hopefully my car will be repaired before Julie Andrews and **** Van Dyke appear on the Xmas TV schedule!!   

 

 

 

 

On 11/11/2023 at 17:37, Sanqhar said:

 

aas - Am I reading this right you bought the car at 28000 miles and now approx 18/19 months later you have done 7000 miles.  That is not optimum usage for a modern diesel with dpf and egr.     

 

We (really it was wife's car) just swapped an 8yr old diesel Tiguan for the Karoq.  Tiguan was one of the first of the EU6 models with EA288 engine.

 

In 8yrs it did 40K miles, the vast majority 3-5 mile runs to the shops or schools.  It never gave a moments issue (hence I got rid of it, as I thought keeping it was tempting fate!).   It used to active regen around every 250 miles - we'd often interupt them.  They never passive regen in normal UK use - the dpf doesn't get anywhere near hot enough.   We did a fast 300 mile round trip one weekend and the car did a regen on the school run the next morning.

 

The only thing I would say is we always ran it on Shell V-Power - horribly expensive but only used a tankful per month.

Good luck with the Karoq Rory.  Prior to purchasing the Karoq, I had undertaken a shed load of research narrowed my choice down to, Tiguan, Ateca and Karoq.  I obviously plumped for the wrong choice!