Well, I've had my 74 reg karoq (1.5 SE-L) for three weeks now. Still adapting, I appreciate, but there are two areas which I'm especially uncomfortable with and where advice would be welcome:

I find the DSG gear change really jerky and laggy - quite a contrast with my partner's Audi A3 DSG which is incredibly smooth - I'd have thought the gear change experience would be similar. The lurch and gear change noise when I push the pedal down gently when going uphill is very noticeable in particular;

The speed alert ding ding which I can't turn off permanently, or permently change the alert threshhold from 3 to 5 mph, is pretty tedious. For someone living in Wales where my main road has 16 changes in speed limit in a 5-6 miles stretch as we go in and out of 20mph zones it is especially annoying (and please don't have a go at me for "speeding" - I'm a trundler really - but these 20mph zones are, with one exception, on roads where there are no schools and few houses too, and just a tiny drift above 20mph and it's "ding-ding"). The alert often doesn't seem to recognise when I've left the 20mph zones either so scolds me inapppropriately. I don't mind the visual alert, but the noise is another issue.

So - a good ride and driving position, but the gear shift experience and warning systems are a real turn off. Moreover, I understand that I can't do anything to fix the alerts permanently using an OBD device on 74 reg and later cars.

Does anyone have any advice on the gear change thing? I guess the answer is to go to a local Skoda dealer and ask them to drive it and advise. The alerts I will have to live with or just keep turning off every trip I guess.

Sorry if this seems like a bit of a whinge, but I confess to being a little disappointed at the moment!

Speed Alert - there are I think 3 different alerts. 1st is Speed warning, the speed is configurable and the alert can be on or off and once set off will stay off. I have it On and set to 75mph in case I get carried away! 2nd Is from the Navigation speed limit sign display can be switched on or off, which is permanent. Then there is the warning “bong” which can be on or off but I think it might be linked to the volume of sat nav spoken directions but again this is permanent setting until changed. 3rd is the Traffic Sign Recognition which I do not have so I can’t comment on how that operates.

DSG - there are many different DSG boxes produced by VAG. The 1.5 TSI would usually have the DQ200 dry clutch - this should be smooth going through the gears but can be jerky in certain conditions, usually when pulling away from a stop, compared to the wet clutch DSG boxes. Your Audi A3 may not have the same DSG box as your Karoq it will depend on engine torque output. Definitely go back to your dealer ask to drive another 1.5 DSG preferably a 25 plate demo car. If it drives smoother than yours then you can argue that the demo car defines the quality/standard of the DSG transmission and that yours is not of that standard, and thus should be fixed under warranty. Did you buy the car from a Skoda dealer?

Is the A3 a 1.5 TSI with a S-tronic 7 speed twin dry clutch the same as the DQ200 on the Karoq?

Thanks for the quick responses. Yes, car was from a Skoda dealer, but a long way from where I live. I've registered the car to be serviced etc at one local to me so i guess that's where I should direct any queries. I'll take your advice and see if I can drive a demo car - mine is only 6 months old and has fewer than 5,000 miles so it is pretty recent and, I assume, comparable to a demo one.

The lass's car is an A3 1.4 PHEV. I assumed same gearbox but perhaps naivety and ignorance on my part.

Incidentally, Skoda seem to have confirmed that my car now thinks it is on both the variable and fixed service intervals simultaneously - don't ask! I have no idea how this is even possible, but I hope the local dealer can change it to the fixed interval.

So not a smooth and joyful experience so far alas. Anyone want to buy a car????

I have the same engine/gearbox on a 25 plate & have no issues with it. It's actually smoother when pulling away than the 2015 Polo I switched from. The 24 plate I test drove before purchase also didn't have any issues.

The audible speeding warning is low volume & I haven't changed anything. I don't find it intrusive but I can understand how it might be in your scenario.

I could accept one ding ding alert - but when I go one mph above the setting then one mph below and then just above again, the alert sounds again. So it regularly scolds me. One might say that I should just stay below, I fully accept - - not always easy on our 20mph roads with impatient souls behind and the natural small drift up and down........ Ah well....

I'd probably just set the ACC & let it do its thing to keep you below. But that won't help where the change up isn't recognised.

A 1.4 tsi or TFSI PHEV has a 6 speed wet DQ400 e DSG. and needs the DSG serviced every 40,000 miles. Maybe even 38,000 being an Audi. Different from a DQ200. Ps it can be changed to fixed servicing. But as it is, is it showing first at 9,400 miles 12 months. Or is it at 24 months, 18,000-20,000? At the PDI sometime changed from variable without asking or permission given. But before getting the car is when to say what you want.

Edited 19 July, 202519 Jul by Ootohere

The speed alert how ever you can turn off or reduce the sound because still not required as law in the UK other than in Northern Ireland. I had a courtesy car Electric Mini last week and there are 20 mph roads and the car going Ooo Ooo Ooo. Finding how to switch off was not worth it. But any longer with the car I would have had to because coasting or or not on full regeneration it did 21 miles down the high street.

Just to add, you really can't compare a hybrid to a lone ICE, the assistance and serup of transmission is very very different.

Having owned,and ridden in hybrids, it's like starting off etc in a dodgem, every little change smoothed out by the battery system.

It really is comparing 'chalk and cheese '.

7 hours ago, fenlli said:

Well, I've had my 74 reg karoq (1.5 SE-L) for three weeks now. Still adapting, I appreciate, but there are two areas which I'm especially uncomfortable with and where advice would be welcome:

I find the DSG gear change really jerky and laggy - quite a contrast with my partner's Audi A3 DSG which is incredibly smooth - I'd have thought the gear change experience would be similar. The lurch and gear change noise when I push the pedal down gently when going uphill is very noticeable in particular;

The speed alert ding ding which I can't turn off permanently, or permently change the alert threshhold from 3 to 5 mph, is pretty tedious. For someone living in Wales where my main road has 16 changes in speed limit in a 5-6 miles stretch as we go in and out of 20mph zones it is especially annoying (and please don't have a go at me for "speeding" - I'm a trundler really - but these 20mph zones are, with one exception, on roads where there are no schools and few houses too, and just a tiny drift above 20mph and it's "ding-ding"). The alert often doesn't seem to recognise when I've left the 20mph zones either so scolds me inapppropriately. I don't mind the visual alert, but the noise is another issue.

So - a good ride and driving position, but the gear shift experience and warning systems are a real turn off. Moreover, I understand that I can't do anything to fix the alerts permanently using an OBD device on 74 reg and later cars.

Does anyone have any advice on the gear change thing? I guess the answer is to go to a local Skoda dealer and ask them to drive it and advise. The alerts I will have to live with or just keep turning off every trip I guess.

Sorry if this seems like a bit of a whinge, but I confess to being a little disappointed at the moment!

Hi and welcome to Briskoda.

Having just switched from a manual 1.5 TSi SE L (which was pre-speed alert) to a new DSG 1.5 TSi Sportline I'm certainly with you on the tedious speed alert bongs 😬

My Carista is unable to even pair with the car, so for the time being at least I guess switching them off permanently is not an option😕

When I remember I use the steering wheel button to access both the speed alert and lane keeping menu and disable them.

I've covered 2000 miles now with my first DSG and find it reasonably smooth, although a little 'clumsy' compared with a torque converter and not that responsive when first setting off.

Edited 19 July, 202519 Jul by pinkpanther

I have a Karoq 1.5 manual and you can either turn off the speeding alert completely in the Infotainment display or alternatively set the overspeed threshold for alarm activation to be 3, 5, or 10 mph over road sign limit. I guess setting it to alert only when 10mph over would solve your problem. Mine is a 2018 model so I can't see that your later car wouldn't have this option. It is buried in Vehicle > Driver Assistance > Speed Warning menu.

A later car, especially 2024/ 2025 is very much different as they built the cars to meet the new legislation. Even if the UK is no longer in the EU. Some stuff is just as they produced them.

7 hours ago, Ootohere said:

A 1.4 tsi or TFSI PHEV has a 6 speed wet DQ400 e DSG. and needs the DSG serviced every 40,000 miles. Maybe even 38,000 being an Audi. Different from a DQ200. Ps it can be changed to fixed servicing. But as it is, is it showing first at 9,400 miles 12 months. Or is it at 24 months, 18,000-20,000? At the PDI sometime changed from variable without asking or permission given. But before getting the car is when to say what you want.

Curiously, my car is showing that the next service (following the oil change pre-delivery at 3,655 miles in June) is due at June '26 or or 8,999 miles; then the one after that at December '26 or 14,500 miles. So it seems that I have both fixed and variable requirements simultaneously.... Skoda advised me that I was on the variable interval - but it seems as though having the first service has sort of triggered me being on the fixed at the same time!

Hopefully a trip to my local dealer can resolve this. I hope they have the capability to correct things and put me once and for all on the fixed interval option.

.... it's just another irritation at the moment to go with the jerky gear change and the driver assist functions. I am pining for my old Kadjar !

I take it that one service showing is an INSPECTION Service. Because a muppet technician left that showing. So it is Oil and Inspection services and

at 3 years oil and inspection and extended scope. When on fixed serving. No just INSPECTION SERVICES.

Well first one done early was oil change service. Next one in June 26 states oil change. And yes, December 26 just states inspection. I wonder why everything is so complicated. Or perhaps I'm just getting old and senile!

2 hours ago, warmrain said:

I have a Karoq 1.5 manual and you can either turn off the speeding alert completely in the Infotainment display or alternatively set the overspeed threshold for alarm activation to be 3, 5, or 10 mph over road sign limit. I guess setting it to alert only when 10mph over would solve your problem. Mine is a 2018 model so I can't see that your later car wouldn't have this option. It is buried in Vehicle > Driver Assistance > Speed Warning menu.

You can certainly turn off all the driver aids in the 2025 car but they come right back on again at the next restart

10 hours ago, pinkpanther said:

You can certainly turn off all the driver aids in the 2025 car but they come right back on again at the next restart

Yes indeed they do, sadly. I'd have thought it might be possible to set the trigger level for speed alert dings permanently to 5 rather 3mph above the limit - that would have been fine for me. But alas, that too resets at every restart. It is frustrating. I shall have to wait for the OBDeleven lot to "crack" the code of 74 reg and later cars so that the alerts can be tweaked or turned off. I may be waiting some time.....

Our 24 reg 1.5SEL is difficult to drive smoothly, the accelerator is very unforgiving leading to a jerky ride, especially on rough potholed surfaces........our previous 1.0 SEL was far superior in the ride.

1 hour ago, Berisford said:

Our 24 reg 1.5SEL is difficult to drive smoothly, the accelerator is very unforgiving leading to a jerky ride, especially on rough potholed surfaces........our previous 1.0 SEL was far superior in the ride.

Guessing it's a manual?

This characteristic was a big part of the reason for me switching to an Auto.

Frustrating when you try a 2017 1.4 TSi manual (in a friend's Octavia) and find it a much better drive😬

Lots on this subject here:

8 hours ago, fenlli said:

Yes indeed they do, sadly. I'd have thought it might be possible to set the trigger level for speed alert dings permanently to 5 rather 3mph above the limit - that would have been fine for me. But alas, that too resets at every restart. It is frustrating. I shall have to wait for the OBDeleven lot to "crack" the code of 74 reg and later cars so that the alerts can be tweaked or turned off. I may be waiting some time.....

I really do sympathise. The very thought of having to "code" a new car to remove things you really don't want or need is shocking.

My only way around this is to keep my 3 year old 2022 SEL DSG Karoq which I made sure had no such driver "aids".

A brief trip with my daughter in a hire Hybrid Toyota Corolla was enough. She apologised as she had not yet found out how to tame the frequent intrusive and distracting bongs and warning signs..... Obviously we are no longer trusted to drive.

19 minutes ago, OldKaroq said:

I really do sympathise. The very thought of having to "code" a new car to remove things you really don't want or need is shocking.

My only way around this is to keep my 3 year old 2022 SEL DSG Karoq which I made sure had no such driver "aids".

A brief trip with my daughter in a hire Hybrid Toyota Corolla was enough. She apologised as she had not yet found out how to tame the frequent intrusive and distracting bongs and warning signs..... Obviously we are no longer trusted to drive.

I suggest the accident statistics, especially through excessive speeding, and the success in reduction of fatalities and serious injury in 20mph areas, answer that question 🫤

On 20/07/2025 at 17:56, Frizzbee30 said:

I suggest the accident statistics, especially through excessive speeding, and the success in reduction of fatalities and serious injury in 20mph areas, answer that question 🫤

I suspect this individual has little regard for driver safety aids 🤔

Clearly not without ability on a bike though!

Don't worry, if you dislike it now, given time you'll come to hate it.

The only car I've ever had that leaks oil from it's dampers to "lubricate the seals" - that were presumably designed to keep it in..

That has constant low battery voltage ( we can sell you a battery charger...) That's cost me £400 in batteries in 5 years. But theirs nothing wrong with it, you just aren't doing enough miles... You only find out how low when it doesn't start at 5am when you need to go to the airport.

That the cruise control takes a few days off at a time ( I now know it's battery related, but Skoda have never told me that)

That the turbo actuator fails every couple of years. Where you only find out when you're overtaking a lorry....

The press love 'em. Iny words ( as the alarm was going off at 1am) I hate this car with a passion.

Apart from all that, it's fine.

On 27/07/2025 at 12:39, OldBluebird said:

Don't worry, if you dislike it now, given time you'll come to hate it.

The only car I've ever had that leaks oil from it's dampers to "lubricate the seals" - that were presumably designed to keep it in..

That has constant low battery voltage ( we can sell you a battery charger...) That's cost me £400 in batteries in 5 years. But theirs nothing wrong with it, you just aren't doing enough miles... You only find out how low when it doesn't start at 5am when you need to go to the airport.

That the cruise control takes a few days off at a time ( I now know it's battery related, but Skoda have never told me that)

That the turbo actuator fails every couple of years. Where you only find out when you're overtaking a lorry....

The press love 'em. Iny words ( as the alarm was going off at 1am) I hate this car with a passion.

Apart from all that, it's fine.

Im sorry you have had such a terrible experience with the Karoq.

In the 7 years and two that I have had, there is nothing to report - all works perfectly.