I really don’t know where to start, I had an Octavia 1,4 from 2014 best car ever everything worked perfect for 12 years unbelievable and now the wife wanted a SUV type car so we went for the Karoq 1.5 sportline 2025 in hope that it could only be as good as the Octavia, but sadly NO.

Infotainment is really CRAP, can’t save profiles so every time I start a trip I have to go in and set everything up, the excuse for this “safety and fuel economy”, every time I drive the car there is some kind of pop-up on the screen I have to read and confirm while I’m driving, is that safety ?
Some times I get warnings in the virtual display “new car ?” but it’s there so short time that I can’t read it and there is no message log in the system, crap..

Also the Skoda connect doesn’t work all the time and specially when you need it the most, when the 3 years of Skoda connect is done it’s much cheaper buying a good GPS tracker and that you can follow 24/7, in Skoda connect you can only see your car when it’s NOT moving..

Sometimes when I play music from USB and a new number is starting I get 2 sec of noise in the beginning,
the speaker system is really CRAP, wow… sound so crappy that I don’t know how Skoda can live with them selves, and it’s probably VW.

The DSG changes far to late, driving normally in town the RPM goes up to 3500, that’s not necessary, my old Octavia 1.4 never went over 2200 before changing.

ACC., I really would have been without it, I want the old CC back, why couldn’t they make it possible to choose. The ACC jams on the breaks and sometimes without any reason.

Set speed after the road signs is really dangerous, I live in Spain and her when there is a exit from the main road they put speed signs of 40 km on the exit and when your are driving 90 on the main road and the system sees the 40 you can guess what happens, really dangerous..

Lane assist works really fine.

Driver Assist is also really dangerous don’t ever use that it takes over the car and not in the good way.
So I’m beginning to understand why Europe can’t sell cars any more and why China is overtaking because wow… all this shouldn’t be an issue..

I think I’m going for an BYD next time…

Don’t ask Gemini what is crap in the Karoq, you wouldn’t like it.

This was what I could remember to through up about, sorry..

Unfortunately a lot of the 'safety' and 'drive' profile systems have been mandated by the EU, as has the inability to turn them off permanently, meaning they are reinstated each time you start to car...

The DSG issue drives me mad! I noticed from day one on my Karoq SEL how it revs so much before changing gear. My wifes 2024 Fabia changes at about 2000 rpm when driving . Also had the Karoq change down at about 75 mph on the Motorway when braking going downhill in Devon! Have been thinking about a change of manufacturer myself after 20 odd years of Skoda ownership.