Hi.

Just see that my 2023 skoda sportline karoq 19 inch wheels 19 inch.

Sagittarius I believe? One of the covers is missing. Unsure if has been missing long and wanted your take on whether it has been stolen or has just fell off due to bad clips or design flaws. See photo of good wheel and the trim removed. UK right hand drive. Passenger rear.

I think this is the missing piece?

https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/57a601169cfl8-wheel-cover-skoda-45385.html

Not the cheapest. And a quite bit delivered so wondering if Skoda would fit one cheaper and examine the rest to make sure the clips are okay if they were not stilen and loose.

And bonus question.

8000 miles at present. How many miles am I hoping to get out of the skoda turanza summer tyres? Looking to upgrade to all season.

Either

Prelli SF3 (SF4 when released as they have wet grip and rim protection)

Good year vector 4 (5)

Continental all season

Or Michelin cross climate.

Got the 225 40 R19 and looking to uograde to 225 45 R19.

Anyone went bigger e.g 235 45 or 225 50?

Cheers

I’ve recently fitted Bridgestone Turanza All Season, Bridgestons have a 25,000 mile guarantee promotion- not sure how that might pan out though as driving style and usage patterns vary so much. Bought Bridgestones as they have a good rim protector, fitted Continental All Seasons to our Fabia last October, as it was slightly better rating in rain. Have Cross Climates ln previous cars but expensive and ratings suggested oriented more to snow. Goodyear Vectors the tyre depot manager advised against prone to cracking apparently.

Many choices CrossClimates now, +,1,2,3 3 Sport. SUV. CrossClimate Sport might be a good choice. Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF 2 or SF3 (self Seal) would be my choice.

One option is to remove the other three wheel covers, clean the wheels and leave them exposed. You can get a set of wheel centres, etc from a Škoda dealer.

5 hours ago, Evolution13 said:

Many choices CrossClimates now, +,1,2,3 3 Sport. SUV. CrossClimate Sport might be a good choice. Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF 2 or SF3 (self Seal) would be my choice.

That was my thoughts. The SF3 as on websites they are marketed as having a rim protector too and have a good comfort profile. Not as comfortable in the motorway as continental though apparently? Best wet grip but not as good range or lifespan apparently.

But although we dont get a lot of UK snow. When we do. We need traction and apaprently Michelin or Goodyear do it better.

Pros and cons to all my options.

Guess the question is. How much are Sf3s better at rim protecting than the rest. Surely all premium all season tyres will offer some degree of rim protection?

@DGAsp If you said where you were then maybe we would have some idea how much snow where you are or go. After this scorcher of a Summer coming some of us will have Snowmageddon this coming winter

1 hour ago, Evolution13 said:

@DGAsp If you said where you were then maybe we would have some idea how much snow where you are or go. After this scorcher of a Summer coming some of us will have Snowmageddon this coming winter

Northern England. 1 hour from the boarder

Edited 21 June21 Jun by DGAsp

5 hours ago, Choclab said:

One option is to remove the other three wheel covers, clean the wheels and leave them exposed. You can get a set of wheel centres, etc from a Škoda dealer.

I don't think they're fitted on the current model? When we looked at Sportline a couple of years ago, we were shown the dealer "Brand Manager's" car - he'd taken the covers off as he hated them so much!

Hi DGAsp,

If you are looking for best performance on the road, we, dry or cold combined with longevity, the I believe CrossClimates are the answer.

I've got 41,000 from the rears and 19,000 from the fronts (fronts last half the mileage of the rears approx.)

These were CrossClimate 2s but in my size (225/40R19) looks like I'll have to go with CriossClimate 3 Sports next time. (Black Circles fitted price is £199.99 fitted each for 2 or 4 , so not cheap but well worth it.)

I've got Michelin Crossclimate 3 Sport 225/40R19 and can recommend them at a great price from Costco when on offer £660 for four. Great wet or dry and way less noise than standard Bridgestone summer tyre's fitted from new.

14 hours ago, vulcan said:

I've got Michelin Crossclimate 3 Sport 225/40R19 and can recommend them at a great price from Costco when on offer £660 for four. Great wet or dry and way less noise than standard Bridgestone summer tyre's fitted from new.

That was my plan. But the catch is, costco only fit lime for like. I could buy the tyres, but they wont fit them becasue they are not the same as what is on the car when it goes in.

Switching from 225 40s r19 to 225 45s r19. Secondly, at least in the UK, neither 225 40 or 225 45 is lists cross climate 3 as an option for either size on costcos website. Just the pilot for Michelin and good year for all season.

3 hours ago, DGAsp said:

Switching from 225 40s r19 to 225 45s r19. Secondly, at least in the UK, neither 225 40 or 225 45 is lists cross climate 3 as an option for either size on costcos website. Just the pilot for Michelin and good year for all season.

Yeah, CrossClimate 2's were available in 225/40R19 but not CrossClimate 3's - Need to go to CrossClimate 3 Sport.

@DGAsp
If you intend keeping the car for a while it may be worth considering down-sizing the alloys. That would improve the ride by default, reduce the kerbing risk & the tyres would be cheaper.

7 hours ago, barcudcoch said:

Yeah, CrossClimate 2's were available in 225/40R19 but not CrossClimate 3's - Need to go to CrossClimate 3 Sport.

They arent availabe at costoco either in CC3. They may be able to special order them. But I am still going to change from 40 to 45s for a softer ride.

As lwr costcos rules. They wont fit 45s unless there are 45s on the vehicle already of which there isnt as they are 40s currently.

They said I could however buy the tyres at Costcos price abd take the 4 tyres away with me tonget fitted by someone else

If you change from 225/40-19 to 225/45-19 you should inform your insurance provider. As that is not a standard tyre size for your model of Karoq they will consider the change a modification. If you have a claim an undeclared mod gives them a reason to reject your claim , or at reduce the payout.

Such a change of tyre spec will also cause inaccuracy in the speedo reading (under read).

1 hour ago, philbes said:

If you change from 225/40-19 to 225/45-19 you should inform your insurance provider. As that is not a standard tyre size for your model of Karoq they will consider the change a modification. If you have a claim an undeclared mod gives them a reason to reject your claim , or at reduce the payout.

Such a change of tyre spec will also cause inaccuracy in the speedo reading (under read).

Mechanically it fits the car though abd it is a approved tyre standard size on the 4x4 versions of the vehicle.

Yes it will read off, but fir the differnce the speedo will just no longer understand read. The speed in the car would become the actual speed.

Plus I wouldn't of thought it would be significant enough to be classed as a modification, the tyre thickness isnt changing from 225. Just the side wall percentage by 5% the wheels are remaining 19 inch so o would say it was a massive invalidate insurance modification.

Ask your insurance provider what they think.

9 hours ago, DGAsp said:

I wouldn't of thought it would be significant enough to be classed as a modification

As @philbes said, ask the question & get the answer in writing. We've seen from previous discussions that there is no one correct answer.

Best peole rememeber from the factory on factory fit tyres the speedo overeads. Increase in circumference usually has nearer accurate. When not too oversized.

Choosing an All Season tyre, which has a different compound mix and slightly more flexible sidewalls, will also improve the ride, especially when combined with the 45 profile.

4 hours ago, thamestrader said:

Choosing an All Season tyre, which has a different compound mix and slightly more flexible sidewalls, will also improve the ride, especially when combined with the 45 profile.

4 hours ago, thamestrader said:

Choosing an All Season tyre, which has a different compound mix and slightly more flexible sidewalls, will also improve the ride, especially when combined with the 45 profile.

I need to upgrade eventually soon, my stock Turanza 005's bought an ex motability car with only 3800 on the clock, plenty of tread, but because it was hardly driven and probably left u touched outside. Had 2 advisories for tyre cracking. Car had just hit 10k so 6k in 4.5 months so do a good 15k a year

Just seeing as comment has been about Goodyear Allseason tyres ending up cracking, my daughter chose Goodyear Winter tyres for her 2019 SEAT Leon Cupra - and bought "one size down" alloys to use them with.

That worked out very well for her, until, she was "too busy" to let me or her partner swop the wheels/tyres over after winter 2024-2025, so at MOT time in April/May 2026, with these Winter tyres being used in some hot weather in Summer 2025, she got advisories for both the original pair of Winter tyres which were now on the rear, luckily, the front pair had already been replaced as one ended up with a serious puncture, and these maybe 5 years newer same brand/version Winter tyres, did survive that use through Summer weather.

While the classification of the advisories were for "cracking", I think that also included "damaged" - there was tearing visible on the sips areas on these tyres.

Hopefully she has learned a lesson wrt using full winter tyres in hot summer time - though maybe Michelin and others will "accept" that use - I have left Pilot Alpins on my 2011 S4 over the past few summers, but I only use that car for longer journeys and if I know that I will plan to use it in hot summer weather, I'll definitely swop over to summer wheels/tyres before going out on a longer journey.

38 minutes ago, rum4mo said:

Just seeing as comment has been about Goodyear Allseason tyres ending up cracking, my daughter chose Goodyear Winter tyres for her 2019 SEAT Leon Cupra - and bought "one size down" alloys to use them with.

That worked out very well for her, until, she was "too busy" to let me or her partner swop the wheels/tyres over after winter 2024-2025, so at MOT time in April/May 2026, with these Winter tyres being used in some hot weather in Summer 2025, she got advisories for both the original pair of Winter tyres which were now on the rear, luckily, the front pair had already been replaced as one ended up with a serious puncture, and these maybe 5 years newer same brand/version Winter tyres, did survive that use through Summer weather.

While the classification of the advisories were for "cracking", I think that also included "damaged" - there was tearing visible on the sips areas on these tyres.

Hopefully she has learned a lesson wrt using full winter tyres in hot summer time - though maybe Michelin and others will "accept" that use - I have left Pilot Alpins on my 2011 S4 over the past few summers, but I only use that car for longer journeys and if I know that I will plan to use it in hot summer weather, I'll definitely swop over to summer wheels/tyres before going out on a longer journey.

Im thinking cross climate 3s when I comes closer to winter. Hopefully get some near back friday