Hello,

Just sharing my experiences of 2 years driving the Kodiaq for under of 30k km. I will just tell my experience which is mostly positive but i had some issues i would like to share.

1) Battery issues. For inexplicable reason my wife decided to stay in the car for 1 hour listening to music with some lights on and the car would not start. She had to wait 10 extra minutes before the car deciding it had enough power to start by itself. Next time we had to jump start it using cables and since then this has happened 3 times. I understand that discharging battery would affect their life but i would not expect a new battery 6months old to behave like this. I guess battery is not covered by warranty.

2) Coolant low. 3 times already the car has asked for engine coolant. Once after a 3 hour trip and then other 2 after smaller journeys. I added some distilled water to the max line each time. Well, never before with my VAG cars had issues with coolant getting evaporated 3 times in 2 years. Don't think there is a leak but who knows.

3) Airbag fault. Twice now and for no apparent reason the yellow airbag icon has appeared. I took it to the dealership where they said that the fault had to be cleared and it was from the low battery situation. Currently the airbag light is on without having trouble with the battery.

4) Driver door misalignment. After 1.5 years the driver door started making an annoying hissing sound on the driver side. above 100km/h the sound was really annoying. Anyway they had to adjust the door at the dealership.

5) Amudeus system. Generally ok but a some disconnections in Car play, restarts and small issues with stability.

I am more interested on the first 3 issues, if any other user had similar issues and how they overcome them.

Edited 12 May, 20251 yr by Mikepeak

sorry for posting on the welcome page.....completely missed that...

12 minutes ago, Mikepeak said:

2) Coolant low. 3 times already the car has asked for engine coolant. Once after a 3 hour trip and then other 2 after smaller journeys. I added some distilled water to the max line each time. Well, never before with my VAG cars had issues with coolant getting evaporated 3 times in 2 years. Don't think there is a leak but who knows.

Firstly add coolant, not distilled water.

Secondly, I'm not sure coolant has anywhere to evaporate to. If it disappears, I suspect it's leaking.

Either to the outside world, or more worryingly into the engine somehow.

How much water have you added, do you think?

Well, all the 3 times the coolant was at just below min value and added up to almost max value. I would recon around 300ml each time!?

Welcome to the forum.

There is a MAX and a MIN and no 'Fill to this line' marker.

The MAX fill up can sometimes drop and self level.

That is a good place to mark with a marker & where many cars stay at till the next service or fill up then back to setting it's own level.

But dropping to MIN needs diagnosed as to the source of the leak.