Abominable

Second warranty fault. Oh dear! No 1. Turbo Actuator fail. No 2. Full-beam lens loose in headlight unit Here is a catalogue of the faults with the 1st Yeti: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/385693-100000-miles-of-poor-reliability-in-a-skoda-yeti-12tsi/

Longer term users of this forum may remember the many problems that plagued my first Yeti 1.2TSi. In six years it clocked up 30 warranty claims / faults; everything from failed ABS warning harness, HT leads, wheel bearings, timing chain fault, paint issues, rust.... Things got so bad Skoda UK eventually helped to put me in a new one (not for free, sadly!). Anyway, here I am with 12,500 miles on my 2nd Yeti and the first fault has developed....a failed turbo actuator / wastegate. The wastegate and the complete turbo unit was replaced efficiently by West End Garage in Edinburgh. I was so hopeful that I could get to 100,000 miles without any issues, but it seems that's not to be, so I might as well start a new list and see if this Yeti can beat the last one to 30 faults! So, No 1. Turbo Actuator fail. Here is a catalogue of the faults with the 1st Yeti: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/385693-100000-miles-of-poor-reliability-in-a-skoda-yeti-12tsi/

Navigating music on an SD card using the 'Swing' head unit. Try this when you're driving and you'll end up in the hedge! Wish you could navigate using the steering wheel controls....

On gated roads always follow a vehicle that has a passenger; let them do all the hard work. Old Cumbrian farmers trick ;-)

Getting in the new Yeti is like putting on a comfy pair of old jeans, but only the stitching isn't bust and there aren't holes in the arse! Apart from the obvious on a new car (the 'box being tighter etc) it all feels much the same. The engine, a 110, makes a different purr, maybe even a bit more of a throb but doesn't feel any more powerful really. Can't judge the mpg as yet, as it's only done 1200 miles. I was always pretty happy with the old bug-eye getting about 40 to 45mpg on most runs, so hopefully it's that or better. The engine looks totally different, however. Small things stand out - the full-beam on the switchgear isn't a positive click like the last one, different spare wheel compartment, the addition of tyre pressure monitors, start/stop etc etc. The touch-screen stereo head unit I am not a fan of - far to fiddly when driving. The old button one was better, as much simpler. The steering wheel controls don't help matters. A small gripe really. In terms of performance, handling, ride - all much the same really. And best of all nothing has blown up, fallen off or started to rust!

I do about 20k a year. Guess I am just interested in what level of servicing up to about 100k. I must be old school, we're the servicing work was all prescribed from day 1!

Cheers Offski. I switch wheels every 6 months between my winter set-up and summer set-up and copper-slip then. Have used Victoria Garage before; they're good as are West End in Edinburgh. Those links don't give much of a clue as to what a forthcoming service will entail, which, fair enough, seems related to the way the car has been driven etc and is based on monitors within the engine. Would be nice to know though, how big a service is due in advance so as not to be shocked by a big servicing bill!

...also, my new Yeti has a timing belt (old one has a timing chain). Is there a servicing schedule on the timing belt?

Now that servicing records have gone electronic it seems the servicing schedule on 1.2TSi engines is much harder to determine / less pre-defined. My new 2016 Yeti is on a variable servicing regime. My last Yeti (2010) came with a service book that clearly stipulated the servicing intervals and work for everything from spark plugs to air con (whether on fixed or variable servicing), but now I can't find the servicing schedule info anywhere. The car manual info is vague. Am I missing something?

New Yeti. Hoping it is more reliable than the last one!

No, I left them on the car. It was that or the 17" Annapurnas....so a no-brainer really. That means I will have some brand new 205 55 16 Michelins summers to part with shortly when I remove them and put on some lovely grippy winter Nokians - there is no better winter tyre! West End were superb; no quibbling or messing around, just straight-forward and efficient and even a bit humble (they knew the old car and all its faults well!)

So here is the solution, a new Yeti 1.2TSi S, almost identical to the last one in spec and colour but hopefully not in character or bodywork. Skoda UK and West End Garage in Edinburgh came together to make me an offer on a new car I couldn't refuse. So I didn't refuse it! I will not miss the old Yeti one bit. Even in the past 4 or 5 months you could see the rust creeping and the process to get it resolved was just turning to farce with nobody really wanting to take responsibility. I can only say positive words about how West End handled the exchange. When you consider they probably won't make a penny out of the deal and that they have repeatedly had to rectify the poor workmanship from another Scottish Skoda dealer on the last Yeti, you just have to applaud them. Please wish me luck with the reliability of my new Yeti and that the rust stays away; I don't want it ending up heading for the skip like the last one!

So here is the solution, a new Yeti 1.2TSi S, almost identical to the last one in spec but hopefully not in character. Skoda UK and West End Garage in Edinburgh came together to make me an offer on a new car I couldn't refuse. So I didn't refuse it! I will not miss the old Yeti one bit. There was absolutely no sadness in handing it back. I can only say positive words about how West End handled the exchange. When you consider they probably won't make a penny out of the deal and that they have repeatedly had to rectify the poor workmanship from another Scottish Skoda dealer on the last Yeti, you just have to applaud them. Please wish me luck with the reliability of my new Yeti (though I am hoping I won't need it this time around). Here is hoping this one won't end up heading for the skip like the last one!