Weirdly not a sad moment when I handed the keys back to the dealer

After 15 months, I finally managed to get Skoda to agree my vehicle rejection for the 12v battery issue

Having logged every time it happened since the beginning of the year (26) one battery change less than a month ago and then the dealer reporting 19 further issues I am now the owner of a 2 1/2 year old Karoq sportline

Our company is going to gradually replace our fleet of 1.4 IVs with another make of car due to this issue. Skoda have been horrendous at dealing with it.

Edited 23 May, 20251 yr by mccririck

I was just looking at the 1.4iv (and have a Test Drive on Weds) and then started reading the forums posts.

The 12v issue seems to be pretty common. Please tell me you didn't hand the keys back to the RRG Dealer in Oldham (That's where I'm due to take the testdrive)

No, it’s not, but make sure you have a full Škoda warranty on it.

My car and back to a dealer in south London, but they told me that they are the ones who re sell it.

If they could have found the issue I would never have rejected it, so feel sorry for whoever does buy it

Thanks, it has an 18 month warranty remaining, but I'm seriously considering looking at the 1.5 etec instead.

I'd need to move to an EV tarrif to make this work and it all seems too much like hard work.

Sounds like if they could have sorted the 12v issue you would have kept it

the car is lovely. It was my 4th Octavia, had L&K's, and this was up there.

The battery issue (12v) was an annoyance more than anything that stopped me from using the car, so sometimes not being able to preheat, or not being able to use keyless. It is not as bad as the HV issues some (including me) have.

This was my second Phev (first was a merc c350e about 10 years ago) and it will be my last.

It is great if you are doing a 10m round trip, looking at the MPG which shows 300mpg, but knowing that it is only costing you a couple of pounds. It is when you are on the motorway. A 200 mile trip will show mid to high 60's, but unlikely it is cost effective to charge (45/55p+ is more expensive than petrol) so on my journey home I would only get early 50's.

My Karoq is only giving me 35mpg around town and 42 ish on motorways, so it is costing more, but at the moment i am not bothered.

The 12v battery I believe is a standard battery, but if I were you, I would ask for the full history of the car. Not the service history, but a workshop history. It will show all the faults, updates etc. Without that I personally would go for the 1.0 or 1.5 and not the Phev.

Thanks, appreciate the quick response, I'll definitely move towards just the petrol version rather than the iV version

From my experience and what I collect around on social media, PHEVs have very little to no issues at all with HV system. All the other problems are shared across the platform, no matter you take PHEV, MHEV, or just ICE. Same 12V issues are constant across all options.

But surely, PHEV only makes sense if you can charge it overnight at cheap tariff. In any other case I'd go for MHEV or just EV, depending on weekly mileage.

6 minutes ago, Edela said:

From my experience and what I collect around on social media, PHEVs have very little to no issues at all with HV system. All the other problems are shared across the platform, no matter you take PHEV, MHEV, or just ICE. Same 12V issues are constant across all options.

But surely, PHEV only makes sense if you can charge it overnight at cheap tariff. In any other case I'd go for MHEV or just EV, depending on weekly mileage.

Awwww, don't be telling me that.... That means that anything sharing the platform will be affected, such as a Mk8 Golf.