[phi]

Originally Posted by phi

They said that they do not suspect the area view module (the one under the passenger seat to which all the cameras are connected) - instead, they suspect the module that comes along with the rear camera that is fitted into the boot lid. I asked them why they suspect the rear camera module when no camera feed or the area view appears on the display (why not the area view module), but I did not get a good answer. Maybe, they are going step by step.

Waiting for the call from the service center, after they arrange the module (or the test car to swap the module from) - hopefully in 1-2 days.

Finally, the service center was able to test this out, and the fault is in the area view module, not the rear camera module. The concerns about water damage are gone for now, since I have not water-washed the interior at all.

The technician wants to re-code the faulty module once and check if the fault goes away. They do not have the tool for this, so they are taking the car to their Audi service center tomorrow.

Hope the fault goes away. If it does not, there might be a pretty long wait after the service center orders a spare, though I can continue driving in the meantime.

[somersault]

Friends, I see following observations in my month old Kodiaq TSI L and K. If you have any inputs, please suggest.
1. My tire pressure was way off. It was 45 in all the tires. I have driven 650 KM in the last one month and I found the ride was a bit hard. I thought that it is probably the Skoda settings. I came from Honda City 4th gen, where the suspension was nice. Any idea why the original pressure was 45? I have now brought it down to 35 as recommended. The suspension has become nice now.

2. My car now suddenly feels sluggish since yesterday. While I do not see this as an issue, but is there any way I can improve this? Or over the period, it will improve automatically? I am using XP95 only. My other cars were having 1 month service center visit schedule. For this car, its 1 year schedule. Should I visit the SC and change the oil and clean the filter as suggested by someone few posts back.

[krishnadevjs]

Hello, a friend is in the market for a new Kodiaq, and he's been offered both 2023 manufacturing and 2024 manufacturing models.
Given the 2023 mfg ones are also in the factory only, is there any substantial risk in going for it?
Also, what kind of offers and discounts are prevalent for Kodiaq now in Mumbai?

[Aviator_guy]

Originally Posted by somersault

Friends, I see following observations in my month old Kodiaq TSI L and K. If you have any inputs, please suggest.
1. My tire pressure was way off. It was 45 in all the tires. I have driven 650 KM in the last one month and I found the ride was a bit hard. I thought that it is probably the Skoda settings. I came from Honda City 4th gen, where the suspension was nice. Any idea why the original pressure was 45? I have now brought it down to 35 as recommended. The suspension has become nice now.

Dealers usually over inflate tyres (may be to account for transit or car being stationary for prolonged periods in stockyard). It is not unique to Skoda. It is always recommended to adjust pressure to normal settings post delivery. I wish their delivery checklist has tyre pressure as a check.

[somersault]

Originally Posted by krishnadevjs

Hello, a friend is in the market for a new Kodiaq, and he's been offered both 2023 manufacturing and 2024 manufacturing models.
Given the 2023 mfg ones are also in the factory only, is there any substantial risk in going for it?
Also, what kind of offers and discounts are prevalent for Kodiaq now in Mumbai?

I purchased my Kodiaq L and K on 31st August. It is a MY 2023 model. I am not sure if we are getting 2024 ones. But I am not facing any issues at all with MY 23 models. My word of caution will be to ask the VIN number and ask the landing document at the stockyard for the car. So you are sure that the vehicle was delivered from the factory recently and is being sold as brand new. Dealers could offer standing or demo vehicle to you.

I got it with 80K August discount, 60K as exchange bonus and 60K as some corporate bonus. I managed to secure insurance in 1.15 lakhs (close to what you see outside). 2 years SMP and 4 years warranty was inclusive. I booked in August only and was delivered in August. Not sure of September/ October.

[HillDriver]

The DSG remap takes care of the torque limit. TVS claims the DQ381 is good up to 600nm of toque.

I have the same combo on my car but it's a Superb 2.0TSI[/quote]

Hi, could you please let me know if you got the remap while the warranty period was still applicable? Does it impact possible future warranty claims?
What is the approximate cost of getting it done?

Could anyone who has done a remap on the Kodiaq in the NCR region advise a dependable place to get it done?

[SilverSmoke]

Originally Posted by HillDriver

The DSG remap takes care of the torque limit. TVS claims the DQ381 is good up to 600nm of toque.
Hi, could you please let me know if you got the remap while the warranty period was still applicable? Does it impact possible future warranty claims?

It is not - official limit is upto 450 NM only without hardware changes - no matter what tuners state.

If remapping is detected, warranty is voided for sure. You can choose to drive in sports mode - it's also temporary remap of ECU, steering & suspension. For finer settings, one can fiddle with individual mode.

[SilverSmoke]

Originally Posted by somersault

Should I visit the SC and change the oil and clean the filter as suggested by someone few posts back.

ECU here is dynamic self learning / adjusting - it decreases & increases the performance depending upon number of factors. If you keep driving lethargic for long, it shifts to more eco mode. For it to know that you love performance, it's crucial that you accelerate hard 1-2 times a drive - that should be enough.

I strongly recommend that you check your air / oil / fuel filters - keep them in prime condition always.

[somersault]

Finally was able to take my newly acquired Kodiaq on a comparable 2 hours journey from Mumbai to Lonavala. What a blissful drive it was. With 6 people and luggage on board, the car still returned 10.1 KMPL from Mumbai to Lonavala. This is commendable. Even the return journey was done with same average of 10.1 KMPL. There was a bit of traffic in the ghat section from Khopoli to Lonavala, with car going very slow or halting at some places. However the pickup, the stability, the steering feel was out of the world. Please understand I came from 4th Gen Honda City world. Frequently I was going 110 inadvertently and had to slow down. The NVH is top class, the AC was better than average but not a chiller. All 3 rows felt good and there was no tiring at the end of the journey which I used to get in my Honda City. The drive was completely in D mode and absolutely no issue with overtaking and the pickup. In fact, overtaking was such a breeze. You have to time it and you need not downshift or move to sports mode. I have learnt this trick on my Honda city with the CVT gearbox. CVT also tend to create a lag in the form of rubber band effect. Outright pedal push does not work there as well. You do a first gentle half push and let gearbox know your intention to downshift and then immediately the pedal push for overtake. This works most of the time and a practice may be needed initially. Anyway, its a technique which I am comfortable with. Feel free to try.

Meanwhile, also took the Kodiaq to Lohagadh fort with 6 people on board. Again the drive was in D mode. The top section here is very very steep and single lane to cover both incoming and outgoing. There are also hairpin bends. When we were climbing, there were few vehicles coming down and we got stuck exactly at this most difficult part. With lot of forward/ reverse we managed to move. The great part was, the vehicle was stable with hill hold, 360 degree camera to protect the left side of the car not leaving the road and entering the ditch, enough power to climb with 6 people on board in D mode, without rolling back from the standstill and also was saved with Auto Manoeuvre breaking while reversing on this patch. The incline was more than 30 degrees on this short path. People who have taken car on Lohgadh fort will understand.
While coming down, had got a chance to use the off-road button as the slope was very steep downhill. That helped and we were able to come down without applying the breakes.

Car performance was excellent here as well in D mode. However as the afterthought, I would have climbed in S mode in this difficult section.

By the way, there was no road noise from the Markus tyres even at 100 speed. Probably they are still young.

Overall, very very satisfied with the car.

[phi]

Originally Posted by phi

Finally, the service center was able to test this out, and the fault is in the area view module, not the rear camera module.

Hope the fault goes away. If it does not, there might be a pretty long wait after the service center orders a spare, though I can continue driving in the meantime.

This finally ended with a pleasant experience with Skoda Service. The fault did not go away after re-coding, so they ordered the spare on 9th October. To everyone's surprise, the part arrived in just 9 days. I took the car to the service center again, and they replaced the unit under warranty, re-coded from Audi, and returned it today with no payment. They said they also did a software update that was due. Had to leave the car in the workshop for 5 days, since the warranty process requires the service center to take multiple approvals from Skoda, and submit photos and test results - they are not allowed to give the vehicle back to the user once the process starts.

The camera views are working very well - distance measurement seems to be more accurate than before, either because they did a good job when coding the new unit, or because of the SW update. I was worried about the beige seats getting soiled, but everything looks clean except for a couple of small smudges (need to check again in daylight tomorrow ). The service advisor was very prompt in communicating status and the technician was pleasant and quite willing to answer questions that I had. The tech had also tried to re-configure my seating positions back to what I had stored - I really liked it that he was thoughtful about this, and he almost got it right, except for longer distance from the wheel which I immediately noticed.

Anyway, most settings have gone kaput, and I have to re-configure everything tomorrow.

Apparently, this whole process would have cost 80K+ (landed cost of the part and the labour) if my car was out of warranty. Saw a first-gen Kodiaq that was brought in for a faulty mechatronics unit. That too got fixed in a week. It was 6+ years old, and would have cost a bomb to fix. I hope these issues are rare, and that Skoda would cover such issues under extended warranty without making any excuses. ��*♀️

[Old Dude]

E20 Fuel compatibility for Pre-April 2023 Kodiaqs

As my Kodiaq is pre-April 2023 and carries the sticker on the inside of the fuel lid stating E10 as the upper limit, I sent an email to Skoda India Customer care asking if Skoda has any plans to retrofit the older models and make them compatible to E20 as the fuel available in cities like Bangalore has already gone up to E14.

While I was pleasantly surprised by the speed of response, asking for my VIN number and dealer details, my hope was shortlived when Skoda India forwarded my query to my local dealer. I wrote back to Skoda India, asking if such initiative should not be rolled out by the manufacturer and the information should not be coming from Skoda India, but there is no response yet. The dealer, Raja Skoda however promptly called me and courteously told me that they haven’t been informed of any initiative for retrofits from Skoda for E20 compatibility, and will inform me if Skoda rolls out any such plan.

There was ambiguity at the time of buying the vehicle on E20 compatibility and if I had known, would have even deferred my purchase by few months waiting for the E20 compatible vehicle to be available, but then hindsight is always 20/20

I am still hoping that Skoda would be professional enough to provide an update for older vehicles to become E20 compatible and not leave trusting customers in India like us in the lurch, since we don’t have an option of getting E10 fuel anymore because of Government policies. Further, any warranty claims can also be potentially denied because of usage of fuel outside specified ethanol content per manufacturer.

[adi_petrolhead]

Originally Posted by Old Dude

E20 Fuel compatibility for Pre-April 2023 Kodiaqs

As my Kodiaq is pre-April 2023 and carries the sticker on the inside of the fuel lid stating E10 as the upper limit, I sent an email to Skoda India Customer care asking if Skoda has any plans to retrofit the older models and make them compatible to E20 as the fuel available in cities like Bangalore has already gone up to E14.

As far as I know XP95 from IOC is between E10-12 varying as per locations, whereas normal petrol has been E12-15 depending on the oil marketing company, since few years now. I am not 100% sure about it but XP95 will remain E10-12 in the foreseeable future. ChatGPT tells me all brands will migrate to 20% though. I am not concerned as the government and oil marketing companies are not stupid. They know that cars sold before 2023/2024 are still going to ply on our roads and people will need compatible fuels. I see complete eradication of <E20 fuels by 2035 only giving enough time to the citizens and car companies to make the shift.

[SilverSmoke]

Left tail light is permanently malfunctioning now. Will be submitting vehicle in few days for rectification. Though brake light component is working fine - animated LEDs are gone.