Ateca Spare Wheel Fitting Kit Instructions - 4x4

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Here are the instructions to fit a Skoda Karoq Spare Wheel Kit (Ref: 57A093860C) to a 4x4 Seat or Cupra Ateca. It's a 10-minute job to fit everything,
The only bit that doesn't apply to an Ateca is illustration 7. There are no pins welded to the boot floor to use with the fasteners provided in the kit. This doesn't matter as the polystyrene boxes fit snugly without them.

The kit includes a proper carpeted hard boot floor. The new floor needs to lie directly on the polystyrene underfloor boxes, but it might sit slightly high if the small polystyrene triangular wedges glued under the floor panel don't align properly with the polystyrene boxes. The wedges simply peel off to get a better fit.

The kit includes a scissors jack and various tools, all of which fit in the RH polystyrene box under the new floor.
The space-saver spare wheel needs to be ordered separately (Ref: 5E3601011B).

 

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Yes the Ateca / Skoda are interchangeable. Seat / Cupra stopped selling the parts but given the Karoq is the Ateca no issues as long as you know that secret. I've pinned threads in both the Seat Ateca and Cupra Ateca side. I'll put the link into here. Probably no PDFs in those.

Initially back in 2016 at the Ateca launch you were stumped if it didnt have the boot arrangement you wanted. The specials etc or demo wouldn't. People would use their woodworking skills to make their own ... given you couldn't order the parts. That changed after a few years but of recent they seem to have disappeared again so a friendly visit to a Skoda dealer or online is the order of the day.

Mine is a factory fitted skinny with the base, 4x4, Seat Sound system with the subwoofer in the spare. The axle at the back reduces the depth of the underfloor compared with a 2 drive. So you have the variable floor option that wasnt sold to 4x4 customers or the big drop if presumably the Seat Sound system wasnt bought. Probably the same now but a different sound system. Subwoof and spare plus the boot plane were sold combined then.

The only thing I found when I got the car ten years ago the boot carpet was slippery. I keep a chiller box in the boot bought over 20 years ago. The Ateca it flew about on that carpet cover to the plane (part C in the PDF). It's very much a 4x4 unique issue with the spare mounted as it should be under that cover. Minimum lip and anything loose will hit the inside of the tailgate.

May be Skoda engineers being practical did something about it. Doubt it. The old coefficient of friction you were taught at school (Newtonian physics much nicer than quantum mechanics but I dont reckon you get taught that at school even now). Sufficient mass and a push and anything slipper in boot slides. Because of the flat base of the boot for easy loading my chiller box would crash into the tailgate as you took a corner, pulled of etc.

The solution for me was to buy the pricy Seat reversible boot mat accessory, rubber side up. It sticks to it. That fixed that. The sub woofer mounted in the tyre also worked through the mat, no issue. Chilled stuff can come back from the supermarket secure and cool. Some people use boot trays who carry mucky stuff in the boot, probably has the same effect. Horses for courses, kept the boot with the side pockets where a boot tray may block it.