I have just bought a 2023 Skoda Karoq SEL 1.5.  When driving in normal mode. Blue eco light and message 2 cylinder mode keep lighting up on the dashboard for a few seconds.

Surely this should not happen when in NORMAL mode. It is most annoying.

Is there a computer fault or Can Eco be turned off all together?

You must be in 2 cylinder mode are you not, foot off the accelerator or light pressure and no load on the engine.

Your car can deactivate the cylinders regardless of the mode you are in.  ACT / Active Cylinder Technology. 

There are 4 modes on the car Eco, Normal, Sport and custom. Surly when in Normal Eco shouldn't have any effect. Or what is the point of having 4 modes.

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Is there some issue for you because the car is trying to save fuel or actually emmisions.

Press the accelerator and the car will go, put the shifter back to S and it will hold the gear to a higher rpm.

 

You are not getting to disable the ACT regardless of what mode you are in.

What is the point, no idea, but the point of what you have now is they had it the way it is for the WLTP.

You can switch off the light and message but the car will still use 2 cylinder mode when the conditions are right.

2 hours ago, Ootohere said:

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Is there some issue for you because the car is trying to save fuel or actually emmisions.

Press the accelerator and the car will go, put the shifter back to S and it will hold the gear to a higher rpm.

 

You are not getting to disable the ACT regardless of what mode you are in.

What is the point, no idea, but the point of what you have now is they had it the way it is for the WLTP.

The car is a Manual  6 speed gearbox. The point I am making is that in Normal mode NOT ECO MODE the blue eco light lights up on the dash with the warning ( 2 cylinder mode) . 

If I had wanted to drive in Eco mode I would have selected it.

1 hour ago, Berisford said:

You can switch off the light and message but the car will still use 2 cylinder mode when the conditions are right.

How do I switch off the light?

3 hours ago, Johnboy16 said:

There are 4 modes on the car Eco, Normal, Sport and custom. Surly when in Normal Eco shouldn't have any effect. Or what is the point of having 4 modes.

I have the same car as you and my understanding is the mode button (by the gearstick) allows you to select between one of four modes in which throttle mapping, AC mode and steering weight are varied. 

 

On each restart the car defaults to back to normal. 

 

There is a small indicator in the top left of the virtual dash to indicate which mode the car is in. 

 

The blue 'Eco' light (lower right) comes on irrespective of car mode and reflects when the engine has switched to two cylinder mode. 

 

I'm not aware of a method of disabling 2 cylinder mode, although guess it might be possible with VCDS? 

 

25 minutes ago, Johnboy16 said:

There are 4 modes on the car Eco, Normal, Sport and custom. Surly when in Normal Eco shouldn't have any effect. Or what is the point of having 4 modes.

 

There is always confusion here. There are 4 modes, one of which is economy. This is not the same as when the ECO symbol appears.

 

One of the 4 modes is individual. If you select that and press change, you will get a screen giving you options. On my car (may not be the same on all) the categorie and options are:

Steering:  Normal, sport.

Drive: Normal, sport, eco

ACC: Normal, sport, eco

Light assist: normal, sport

A/C: Normal, eco

 

My assumption is that when you select normal setting, all settings are normal (there is a normal for each)

If you select sport setting, the settings remain normal except that sport is selected if available.

If you select eco, all settings remain normal apart from those with the eco option.

If you select individual you can choose any combination of options

 

I drive my car either in normal or sport, and the only thing I notice is that the steering is marginally heavier. I have a manual, so there is no effect on the gearbox, and some say that throttle response is sharper but I can't feel a difference.

This thread has to be a wind up.

Edited 26 October, 20241 yr by classic

The 4 modes are as you say :- Eco, Normal, Sport and Custom.

when NORMAL is pressed. Normal shows up on the top left of the centre display. But when driving the vehicle the "Blue eco light" and the "2 cylinder message" lights up near the speedo intermittently for a few secs.

I have checked Custom mode Steering, Drive and Air-con are all set to Normal.

That is what it is supposed to do, it will do this in any mode even Sport mode. If the engine is under light enough load and various conditions are met it will go into 2 cylinder mode.

I have this engine and the changeover from 4 cylinder to 2 cylinder and back again is imperceptible to the driver, to the point that without the eco symbol or “ 2 cylinder mode “ words being displayed the driver wouldn’t know it was doing it. I’m sorry but I don’t see what the problem with all of this is ?

 

Edited 26 October, 20241 yr by classic

@Johnboy16  It is usefully when posting if you say manual or DSG.

Then when people are comparing cars if they do not say they are the same engine we might assume they are, but what a 2018 or a 2021 model does does not mean a 2023 model is the same.

They change Software / Engine Management. 

Edited 26 October, 20241 yr by Ootohere

Whatever, I don’t even know why I get involved sometimes.

Back to my normal life, see ya later 😀

@classicthat was not a slight on you.  You show what your car is and 2022 and 2023 did have changes from earlier models. 

1 hour ago, Ootohere said:

@Johnboy16  It is usefully when posting if you say manual or DSG.

Then when people are comparing cars if they do not say they are the same engine we might assume they are, but what a 2018 or a 2021 model does does not mean a 2023 model is the same.

They change Software / Engine Management. 

I  did say it was a 2023 but omitted to say it was a manual sorry about that.

It slightly annoys me that "2 cyl mode" doesn't show in the analoge dash of our 22 car unless the multi-function display is set to MPG - my wife always sets it to show speed.   I like to try and drive to keep it in 2 cyl mode as much as possible. 

 

Always drive in normal, apart from once I used the car a long work trip and it occured to me halfway there to put it in eco mode - made a noticeable improvement to MPG

Irrespective of Mode I'd expect the blue Eco light to show if you aren't "giving it laldy" as we Scots would say

Light load on engine regardless of Mode = Eco

Edited 26 October, 20241 yr by Viffer800

On 26/10/2024 at 16:06, Johnboy16 said:

The car is a Manual  6 speed gearbox. The point I am making is that in Normal mode NOT ECO MODE the blue eco light lights up on the dash with the warning ( 2 cylinder mode) . 

If I had wanted to drive in Eco mode I would have selected it.

 

That's the way it works, whether you like it or not. I'm happy with the way it works. Doesn't mean you're driving in eco mode, as you'll realise the moment you press the accelerator.

Edited 27 October, 20241 yr by sussamb