Passat v Kodiaq

One cheats?  

I suspect the Kodiaq has a newer engine with better emission control.

The passat is very emission sensitive as most of the sales are to fleet or company car users who pay tax based on emission levels. AdBlue reduces the emissions significantly without losing MPG or power so they offer a lower emission, powerful, cleaner car that ticks the company car buyers boxes.

Very surprised that that the Kodiaq doesn't have an Adblue tank.  Google seems to suggest that there a few Kodiaq forums already with posts about Adblue top ups.

don't buy a car that needs adblue, just another expense and I believe corrosive.

My Kodiaq 190 has an adblue tank and the filler is at the side of the diesel filler under the fuel flap

My Skoda 190 superb has add blue, so far in 15000 it has cost me about £9.   Toptip you can fill at a some truck stops just like filling fuel. 

How are you finding it as a towcar?  Do you have one with 100kg nose weight limit or 80?

catherinef

Wont be towing with it properly till next year, apart from taking the van to get serviced during the winter. Would have preferred a 5 seat version with the 100 kg noseweight limit, but the dealer had this 7 seat car, 2 month old with reversing camera and other goodies in stock.

I don't know why the limit is 80 kg compared to the 5 seat version. I would suspect that the towbar mounting is the same on both cars ( no doubt someone will come along in the fullness of time and give a proper explanation). Maybe they are allowing for the extra weight of the 2 back seats, passengers and their belongings and the effect on the suspension.

Previous car was a Skoda Yeti 170  (think it was 75 kg noseweight)which was incredibly stable.

Add Blue consumption is negligible, but the tank does have to be emptied and refilled at two yearly intervals, so don`t arrive at its second service with a full tank. Some car makers comply with Euro 6 without the use of Add Blue but the Germans seem to like it. 

It's my understanding that it's to do with the possibiity of 2 passengers being in the rear.  It will be interesting to see what the nose weight is on the new Tiguan Allspace.  

I see the new Karoq has nose weight's of 75 and 88 kgs dependent upon the engine, transmission and drive system.  Pretty certain when I got a handbook out of one of our Ateca's in the showroom it said 88 kg on that car too.

Our Audi Q3 has the same towing bracket part no as the last model Tiguan yet our car was limited to 80kgs and the Tiguan 100kgs, which I still don't really understand.

With reference to Adblue, our Q3 gets the warning message every 3,500 so I guess that means it's doing 5,000 miles between each fill and we are now at 29,600 miles