I ordered the Kodiaq in December '16 , 2 months before production even started. I was 'allowed' to collect it
On 6/4/17.
Skoda UK would not allow any Kodiaq on the road before the 6th April '17
I kept it for 18 months, which is longer than I usually keep my cars, so I must have liked it!!.
Being an 'early adopter' I had a few niggly problems which all brand new models often suffer from.
Having had the niggles sorted out by my brilliant dealer (Meadens of Brockenhurst ) the only two reasons for changing for the first Karoq was that SWMBO did find the Kodiaq a bit big for her to drive and to be honest it proved to be bigger than we needed for our 2 hounds and secondly I was about 6 months overdue for a change.
I went back to Meadens, got a very good p/x on the Kodiaq (which was sold so quickly they didn't have time to put it on their web site) The Karoq SEL was a pre reg with 50 miles on the clock, Saving myself over £2K on list.
Unfortunately it did not have a pan roof.
Pan Roof being very important to me I kept my eyes open and 2 weeks a go I found another pre reg Karoq, Edition, in my favourite colour combo, Petrol blue with cream leather AND a PAN ROOF!, The most expensive roof I have ever bought!! :lol: £8K to change! but being an Edition and a 19 reg it has quite a few 'toys' that the SEL did not have.
Once again Meadens did an excellent deal for me knocking £600 off the asking price and with a good p/x.
The Edition is my 76th car and my SEVENTH SKoda.
No, I'm just a boring old sod.
I don't drink, nor smoke and holidays are short, infrequent and with hounds, as we are both too wet to leave them in kennels, as both are rescued and had very bad starts in life.
Therefore I waste my spare cash on my number 3 love..... cars (No 1 is SWMBO, in case she reads this :lol: 2 dogs, 3 cars.)
I tend to keep my cars a while. I've owned one of them for 14 years and will probably keep it another 14, as in another 4 it'll be tax and MOT exempt 😎
I had a pano roof on my SEAT Leon. It was nice for the passengers to look out of but I never got to enjoy the benefit!
Got to take the car home today! I've converted your antipodean Kodiaq back to Northern hemisphere spec :lol: Hope you don't mind! However, emoving the Oz variety is not possible. Colin.
I take it there was an issue with the pics Colin? They all display correctly on my phone. I have seen this before with iPhones though, don't know what it's about.
Many smartphones encode the image orientation into the Exif data of the photos taken with them. This data contains information such as the location, if the camera has GPS, the shutter speed, the aperture setting etc.
Other devices such as PCs totally ignore this data causing problems like this
As in so many things, Each unto theire own. I would never have black and petrol blue 'cos it's all too dark. I have had petrol blue and cream leather Yeti and now ditto Kaoroq Edition. I think it's a lovely colour combo, as do all my friends,
But it' what floats your boat. It would certasinly be a boring old world if we all drove same make, same colour, same interior cars, would it not?
As in so many things, Each unto theire own. I would never have black and petrol blue 'cos it's all too dark. I have had petrol blue and cream leather Yeti and now ditto Kaoroq Edition. I think it's a lovely colour combo, as do all my friends,
But it' what floats your boat. It would certasinly be a boring old world if we all drove same make, same colour, same interior cars, would it not?
I am the polar opposite, darker and blacker the better, one of the reasons why I ordered the Sportline and like the vRS is that it has a black headliner on the interior, loved that on my old vRS combine red with black seats. I didn't order a black replacement Kodiaq as I always think black cars are harder to keep clean so I have gone for quartz.
I have never liked (and only owned one car) with a cream interior and I hated it. The other thing is no matter how often I see the petrol blue I cannot like it, there is something about the colour than does sit right with me.
I had ordered Petrol Blue last February and a week later took my wife to see the showroom Kodiaq to check if she needed the running board to get in.....she`s a short lady. She didn`t but noticed an emerald green Karoq newly positioned in the showroom and said immediately, "I do like that better than the Blue". So being a domineering alpha male husband I immediately changed the order. :mrgreen:
As in so many things, Each unto theire own. I would never have black and petrol blue 'cos it's all too dark. I have had petrol blue and cream leather Yeti and now ditto Kaoroq Edition. I think it's a lovely colour combo, as do all my friends,
But it' what floats your boat. It would certasinly be a boring old world if we all drove same make, same colour, same interior cars, would it not?
I am the polar opposite, darker and blacker the better, one of the reasons why I ordered the Sportline and like the vRS is that it has a black headliner on the interior, loved that on my old vRS combine red with black seats. I didn't order a black replacement Kodiaq as I always think black cars are harder to keep clean so I have gone for quartz.
I have never liked (and only owned one car) with a cream interior and I hated it. The other thing is no matter how often I see the petrol blue I cannot like it, there is something about the colour than does sit right with me.
As in so many things, Each unto theire own. I would never have black and petrol blue 'cos it's all too dark. I have had petrol blue and cream leather Yeti and now ditto Kaoroq Edition. I think it's a lovely colour combo, as do all my friends,
But it' what floats your boat. It would certasinly be a boring old world if we all drove same make, same colour, same interior cars, would it not?
I am the polar opposite, darker and blacker the better, one of the reasons why I ordered the Sportline and like the vRS is that it has a black headliner on the interior, loved that on my old vRS combine red with black seats. I didn't order a black replacement Kodiaq as I always think black cars are harder to keep clean so I have gone for quartz.
I have never liked (and only owned one car) with a cream interior and I hated it. The other thing is no matter how often I see the petrol blue I cannot like it, there is something about the colour than does sit right with me.
I have one child , one messy wife and three dogs one of which is 35kg of stupid who also gets car sick. Believe me a big dog produces allot a sick on even a short journey.
When you get old, FA, like me. the brats have left home, the Mrs has been divorced and you have one svelt non car sick dog. Cream Leather is king! But in your position I'd get an old Landy and hose down the interior every day! It sounds as though you have a muck-fest going on in you Kodiaq! :lol:
Granny driving?? You must have a feather for your right foot! :lol:
Best my size 10s have managed after 2000 miles is 44,7.
overall average according to MFD is 31.6
But vast majority of my trips are very short/cold urban runs.
3000 miles in now and that is still my best result over a reasonable distance. My average overall is around 40mpg. Last two fill ups were both well below that.
63 mpg is the best on mine, easily get 45 to 50 mpg even when hoofing it along country lanes. Mines an oil burner though. One reason why I wouldn't touch the 1.5 TSI kangaroo engine.
Each unto their own. I have had 1.4 and tw 1.5. engines. No trouble with any of them My driving demands are such that I would kill an oily engine very quickly (preponderance of short cold drives)
I have nothing against oilys, having owned many when my driving needs were different.
Other point is I always pay cash for my cars and am not therefore, prepared to suffer the (unwarranted and unfair) drastic residuals.
Mine's definitely got that quirk that the 1.5s seem to have.
I had a 2.0 TDI 150 golf estate and it was a cracker. The 1.4 TSI Leon ST I had after that was also good, but I am disappointed with the 1.5. I think the majority of the fuel saving comes from the 2 cylinder mode, which it almost never seems to use except on overrun and perhaps at 30mph in town. It's got to be beacuse the kodiaq's such a big car to lug about. I think it is better suited to the next size down vehicles, like the Ateca/Karoq and below. I bet it's brilliant in an Ibiza!
I must admit I think I should have gone for the 2.0 TDI 150. A few years ago there would have been no question but I am a company car user and the government is really kicking diesel's ass at the moment in taxation.
The way company car tax is set up at the moment it wont be long before everything is in the 37% bracket so maybe next time I'll go back to diesel. I do do very short local journeys but I also do a 400 mile trip at least every other week, so I guess that would still be ok for a modern diesel to cope with
Mine's definitely got that quirk that the 1.5s seem to have.
I had a 2.0 TDI 150 golf estate and it was a cracker. The 1.4 TSI Leon ST I had after that was also good, but I am disappointed with the 1.5. I think the majority of the fuel saving comes from the 2 cylinder mode, which it almost never seems to use except on overrun and perhaps at 30mph in town. It's got to be beacuse the kodiaq's such a big car to lug about. I think it is better suited to the next size down vehicles, like the Ateca/Karoq and below. I bet it's brilliant in an Ibiza!
I must admit I think I should have gone for the 2.0 TDI 150. A few years ago there would have been no question but I am a company car user and the government is really kicking diesel's ass at the moment in taxation.
The way company car tax is set up at the moment it wont be long before everything is in the 37% bracket so maybe next time I'll go back to diesel. I do do very short local journeys but I also do a 400 mile trip at least every other week, so I guess that would still be ok for a modern diesel to cope with
My last car was a diesel and it was certainly smooth but every other car I have owned has been petrol and all of these petrols over 35 years has been hesitant when starting off including my wifes current car which can be quite bad on a cold morning. I notice, and expected, a similar hesitancy with the 1.5 although on mine the DSG masks it well. Perhaps yours is more noticeable but I wonder if collectively as so many of us have now experienced diesel in the last few years we have tended to forget the difference between diesel and petrol. Certainly my wifes car, still relatively modern being 2014, is very much worse than my petrol Kodiaq. Your Leon might have been the exception rather than the rule.
My car often goes into two cylinder mode but most of my driving is about town or slow winding moderately hilly roads so the car is frequently under light load coasting into bends and down hills. Traffic is for the most part light when out of town, fuel economy always increases when one has the road to oneself if one defaults to 'hypermiling'. I think it will go into two cylinder mode up to about 40mph if there is no gradient and the speed is steady. I wonder if the fuel used is halved or the two being used consume more fuel?
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