I'm not sure I can believe that story of dealers being unable to sell the 1.5tsi new unregistered and selling pre registered, mine wasn't pre registered. Believe the "story"; as I recall, you bought yours six months old in October. So yours was first registered before the WLTP rules came ...

Hi Mel, There is nothing wrong with the car. The green "dipped light" symbol in the instrument cluster is telling you about your fog lights. There is a helpful table listing all the warning lights on page 40 of the owner's handbook. The indicators of which of the main lights are on are in ...

Hi and welcome to our little corner of Cyberspace. I think you will be happy with the Karoq. There is always a small element of risk when buying a car in the first year of its production run. Cars are very complex systems, so an occasional bug is not surprising but there have been few reports of any...

Thank you for sharing that, I reckon you may have saved a lot of grief for a lot of people.

Have fun,


Ian.

Thanks for the update Colin, I guess you could do without the pain but that should subside with time and can (usually) be managed with a few "interesting" chemicals (my own preference comes in bottles and is made in Scotland... ;) ) Hope the next six weeks will not be too trying for you; b...

Colin,

You're back! Did all go well?


Ian.

I have now discovered that this issue is not a software fault. It is actually documented on page 242 of the Electronic Handbook. I have had a chat with Skoda and suggested that they might like to reconsider how this function works in the future. You are half right :) The drive mode is intended to r...

If they are the same safety lights as on my Karoq, they are reflectors...

Have fun,


Ian.

PS: You're lucky you have them; one of the reflectors was missing when my car was delivered...

Your Christmas mileage will give you a chance to get to know your new toy, so it's not all bad

Enjoy!

Have fun,


Ian.

Ford pop racer wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:02 pm Put the key in your pocket before going near the car.

I "always" do, but there's really no need given that the car refuses to lock with the key inside.

Have fun,


Ian.

(Note: that's always as in "always except this time" )