Good Bye Yeti

[James I]

As a lot of you know I have been through a lot with my Yeti, good, bad and indifferent but mostly good, so far 106,000 trouble free miles have been covered in 28 months and I have three more months to go as I have resigned from my current job so on my last day I have to hand Yeti back. 

 

 I have had many company cars and never batted an eyelid when swapping to something new, in fact after 18 months I was always looking for my replacement car, with the Yeti this is not the case. In my new job I will have a 62 plate BMW 116D Sport with sat nag, big wheels and such things so not a shabby motor, good thing is it will have 2 months left on the lease so won't be long before I get another Yeti 

 

 I will stick around on Brisky and will be at the spring action day too, still have a Fabia so should be ok.

 

 

 I will enjoy my last few months with the Yeti too..

[bilun777]

Phew , on first reading I thought you'd have to put up with a new BMW.

Nice to hear You're planning on returning to Yeti ownership.

[James I]

Most definitely bilun777, as soon as I get the option to choose a car it will be look in the yeti brochure. My new employer has a company car policy based on value, my limit is £30k so can have whatever we want. So a Yeti is well in spec.

[BossFox]

I feel many options will be ticked...

[James I]

Especially when the tax is offset via an increase to keep your take home pay the same 

[aerofurb]

Could be worse, James - might have been getting an X1...

 

See you back here soon.

[Wardy]

All the best with the new job James.

 

Does your company car policy not have an upper mileage limit then? Not many schemes I know run the fleet to 106k miles!

[James I]

All the best with the new job James.

 

Does your company car policy not have an upper mileage limit then? Not many schemes I know run the fleet to 106k miles!

 

 No mate, most of my cars have gone back with 135,000+ miles on them after 3 years!

 

To update, I have now handed in my notice, a 3 month notice I have to add!  IF a replacement can be found I can leave sooner, if not then I still have the Yeti until the end of March which is good because the lease on the BMW is ticking away and I will have it for less time 

 

 Thanks for the best wishes, all appreciated.

[Macdemon]

Most definitely bilun777, as soon as I get the option to choose a car it will be look in the yeti brochure. My new employer has a company car policy based on value, my limit is £30k so can have whatever we want. So a Yeti is well in spec.

 

Have they got any vacancies, I'm wanting to change too.  

[James I]

They sure do, having just moved to a much larger factory and investing in new machines, they are employing new people from the art room to the presses.  Not sure on your location Macdemon, they are in Leeds...

[Wardy]

Pity you can't buy the Yeti from them; I might have been interested

[BossFox]

Pity you can't buy the Yeti from them; I might have been interested

 

High milage and under serviced?

Not sure I'd want to take that on if I am honest.

 

Would be cheap though.

[Wardy]

How do you mean under serviced?

[BossFox]

How do you mean under serviced?

 

It's just had oil changes most of the time.

Leaseplan wouldn't even change the haldex oil when it was required and left it until the diff was whining.

I'm sure James will elaborate.

 

Lease cars often have a cheaper menu of servicing that manufacturers reccommend to private buyers...

[Wardy]

I see, given the leasing company it's operated under, with you now.....

[James I]

BossFox is correct, my Yeti has been serviced every 20,000 miles,

20,000 service 1 = oil and filter

40,000 service 2 = oil and filter

60,000 service 3 = oil, air and fuel filters no pollen filter, I had to swap that 

80,000 service 4 = oil and filter

100,000 service 5 = oil and filter + rear pads and discs because they were scored, fronts are still original.

 

 Cambelt is due at 140,000 miles on lease plans menu of servicing, a long time but when you think the car is under three years old maybe time is in the belts favour for life expectancy  :wonder:

 

 I also have to add that every time the car was collected I dipped the oil, VW, Audi and Skoda all do the same and only fill the oil up so as it is just over the minimum mark on the dip stick.

 

 Haldex was a special book in as it was whining like an old Chevette! They changed the Haldex and diff oil and all is quiet now.

 

 Other sundry items that the Yeti has had is a heated seat base, drivers side and that is all in 107,000 miles, personally I think this is a very good reliability record for a car that gets well used.  

 

 Would I buy it?   Probably would because it drives really well, the gear change is very slick now and it is getting a good shine on the steering wheel but all said it still pulls like a train and has no issues other than a cold start tap on the top end, easy enough to sort if you wanted to.  Price would have to be low too 

 

 If anybody does see it on a forecourt for sale later this year let me know the mileage as I would love to know if it gets clocked and what it sold for, so keep an eye out for DF11JZG

['daiking']

In an ideal world, it would be MOT'd before its returned so there is an offical record of the mileage.

[James I]

yes, all our cars get MOT'd before we return them.

['daiking']

yes, all our cars get MOT'd before we return them.

Is there any particular reason for it?

[James I]

Because when we order a new car it might take a week or 8 months to arrive like in the case of the Yeti, so we have to keep the current car until the new one arrives, MOT is needed after three years so we get them done, it is always done at Kwik Fit too! Leaseplan stipulate this.

['daiking']

Because when we order a new car it might take a week or 8 months to arrive like in the case of the Yeti, so we have to keep the current car until the new one arrives, MOT is needed after three years so we get them done, it is always done at Kwik Fit too! Leaseplan stipulate this.

Sorry, when you said it goes back, I was thinking it goes back to leaseplan but you mean you're handing back to your company, who will be keeping it for the remainder of the term.

[James I]

Thats correct, some other lucky sod will have my car until the lease runs out.

 

 When I chose the Yeti I was ridiculed by colleagues with BMW and Audi cars, now I have resigned I hear there is one or two people who want to run my car until it goes back lol.  Excuses like, I could drive it when it snows and I need it tow a boat for a friend, a little Skoda envy in the ranks 

[jonceebee]

Lease companies are terrible with authorising servicing. When I had company cars, particularly my last 2.0 Sport Passat, they were always overriding what the garage said should be done at a service. On one classic occasion they rang the lease company to say the brake pads needed changing. They responded by saying is the dash light on... No...then do not replace them.

 

Six days later the light came on when I was over 300 miles from home, I could not get to an approved service garage that week. I drove around two days working then home, took the car into the VW garage  locally. You've guessed it, not only new pads required, but new discs as well.

 

They would not let the garage put screenwash in, never had a pollen filter approved, would only allow one windscreen wiper blade to be replaced at a time, and many others. If the car has done over 100k on a company car lease I would go no where near it at any price. I often wonder what has happened to my many company cars all with over 100k on the clock, but always immaculate inside and out, as James 1 says earlier, maybe sold through auction and possibly clocked

[James I]

Same with tyres, on the first change they let you have one and use the spare if there is a full size spare that is.  I have been in on numerous occasions for tyres to be told come back when they have 2mm on them!!   Just how it is I suppose.

[James I]

I am now into the last week of my three month notice period and I no longer have the Yeti  :(

 

In just 30 months, Yeti and me covered 113,427 enjoyable miles, never let me down, never failed to raise a smile on most journeys and Yeti is the only car I have ever had that after 18 months I did not start looking for what car would replace it, in fact I might even be pining for it

 

 To rub a little salt in the wound I will see the Yeti on a regular basis as one of my ex colleagues now has it until August when it its three years old, I have his Audi A3 for a week and I hate it, gutless, impractical and just all-round DULL.

 

 I start my new job on 24th March and have been issued with a BMW 116d M Sport, all show and no go, it has about a year to run on lease and then I will be back with a Yeti I am sure.

 

 Thanks for the time I have had in the Yeti section and the people I have met, I will stick around on Brisky as I have the Fabia and my project Golf.

 

Had some good times with the Yeti

Brand New before PDI,

 

On Holiday, Exploring

 

With Friends.

 

 

Rallying 

 

Poorly

 

Playing in the snow