Paul52

Well Brian, when you decide it is time to give up being behind the wheel it will be nice to know you stopped with memories of a great car that has served you well rather than a lemon you wish you had never set eyes on - yes, Volvo V50, you know who you are.... I think I might have to try the E5 experiment as I always fill brim-to-brim and have a record going back to May 2013.Three or four tank fuls should be enough to show any difference. On a related matter, the consumption 1 figure is of little real value other than trying to get a figure of 50.0 or better after a bit of a run before turning off the engine but the more useful Consumption 2 readout was showing 41.7 mpg; I believe this is the calculated fuel usage or the past 10,000 miles rather than from new, although where I got that idea from I don't know. Out of curiousity I looked back at my records for the this May to November and these gave an average of 43.3mpg. Allowing for better fuel consumption in the summer than the winter it seems the Consumption 2 figure is pretty accurate for most purposes. A friend turned up in his new company car, a blue Tesla. Apparently you don't have to have white but anything else costs an extra grand! His children having demonstrated the "fart" function, how you can adjust the front passenger seat from the rear seats with a smartphone and that the in car audio has a karaoke mode his wife told me before she drives off in it she has to sit and input all the settings, such as mirror adjustments, air temperature, audio settings and a few other things I now don't recall before she will take to the road because she's worried about taking her eyes off the road to tap at a large large screen to make any adjustments. I can see her point and having had touch screens in laptops and phones for a few years now my feeling is that as they get older they become a bit more tempremental, which can't bode well for the future. ("Hello, I'd like a new TV-thingy for my eight year old Tesla". "Certainly sir, just sit over there and fit the defibrillator pads whilst I get you a price").

And I thought I was doing well holding onto my 11 year old car (12th birthday in May). Well done you!!

In an idle moment (my wife tries to stop me having these but isn't always successful) I was wondering whether there are any members of the club left, other than myself and ;possibly Brijo? Some original members have moved on to new (and possibly better?) things, there's a chance some of the cars have gone to the scrapyard in the sky and some of thir current owners may not even realise they own something a little bit different, a tiny part of Skoda history perhaps? And some of the newer members of the forum may be wondering what I'm going on about. I would explain but the original members of the club will know it's not a can of worms to open lightly I think it sufficiently close to the event that I can say Merry Xmas to the forum, a Xmas I shall be sharing with my 11 year old Yeti as I hope to do for several more years.

Can't speak for the post facelift 4x4 but the brochure for classic Yetis says standard is "tyre repair set, compressor plus bottle of adhesive " with an option for a "temporary space saver spare wheel (16") with jack, false boot floor and net programme (whatever that was)". The option was £85 in 2013 across the range (except S). I guess the logic was without a spare on board what would be the purpose of jacking up the car at the roadside as road side assistance would have thier own jack etc.

Hi Rheumy. Used to be Velocity before it ceased publication but mainly The Folder that is now A2B. But my professional career included a substantial chunk of sustainable transport work and that brought me into contact with a lot of cyclists and later e-cyclists. (My team introduced early lead-acid batteries e-bikes as pool bikes into Portsmouth City Council over 20 years ago). A close neighbour operated his business successfully with a cargo bike and there was the Tesco experiment with bike hods (trailers customers could borrow) at its Chichester store which was well received as a high quality cycle route passes close by the store entrance. As regards "Unlikely to keep you warm and dry if the weather is poor!" the OP says "I have wellies, fluorescent jacket, hard hat, laptop, paperwork to carry daily" which to me is someone that's not going to be too worried about a bit of weather. And wearing the flourescent jacket means one less thing to carry and would make the OP very visible and keep the wind and wet out, which is why you see a lot of utility cyclists wearing them. Cycle lights are so good these days that riding at night isn't the problem it used to be. A load carrying e-bike isn't going to be for everyone, probably not most people, but as solution to the problem being posed it was worth considering and, in the context of possibly having to replace or buy another car, probably cost effective.

Like Stubod my first thought was e-Bike. That would recognise the heart issue and also deal with any hills on the commute. But we aren't talking the cheap Chinese imports that abound on eBay and its likes, you would need something that is fit for purpose as a load carrier (or to pull a small trailer) and that suggests a Dutch or German manufacturer which also brings better electronics, mechanicals and batteries as well as mudguards, lights etc. (I don't have an e-bike but have read a lot about them over the years from reliable sources that know what they are talking about). But be prepared for a hefty price tag although to a degree that's offset by higher residual values and who knows if you had it you might start using it rather than the car for more than the commute. I hope I'm not coming across as evengelical for the bike solution but for a good few years as a middle aged sport-phobic bloke I cycled 10 miles each way to work two or three times a week and for me the benefits greatly outweighted the effort.

It's an omen....... you should reread Expatman's post.

This is a complete stab in the dark but as PC and laptop computers get on in years they can exhibit a fault where they can't hold the time correctly and this creates all sorts of other problems. This often comes down to an expiring CMOS battery. This lurks on the motherboard (I believe) and keeps vital functions such as time running when the computer is powered down and even disconnected from its power source whether that is mains power or battery. A new battery (often a C3202 or similar - a couple of pounds) and all is well again. The trouble is until you experience the problem - or read the problem pages of a well known computer magazine for the technically challenged, such as me - you won't have heard of this battery or that it has a finite life. I'm wondering if there could be something similar happening with your unit - there is something, whether a small battery or somethng cleverer - that holds key data if the primary power source, the battery, is removed from the car and this has now reached end of life. After all the car is now getting on for 10 years old. It would do no harm to ask the main dealer or look for an independent specialist in car audio.

Expatman gives excellent advice - get a second opinion from a trustworthy third party. At least then you will be buying with your eyes open, if the report is generally positive. As regards the sunroof there are lots of reports on this forum (and presumably elsewhere) of problems so its not something to be lightly discounted but I have a sunroof in my now 11 year old Yeti and on only two occassions, both in extreme weather conditions) have I had any water getting into the car and I can't be sure whether that was sunroof related, getting round the edge of the replacmeent windscreen or surcharging the scuttle drains all of which have been been blamed/found guilty for water getting into the footwells in posts on this forum over the years. As regards the fourth onwer selling the car shortly after the repair I think if I'd had a fairly serious accident in a car no matter how well it was repaired I'd still want to sell and move on. I know that's not logical but much about owning cars isn't.

If you were more of a man you would insist she sit in the back. But at the risk of waking up one morning and finding yourself less of a man.

It's very clever but watchimg the clip of the blue car I doubt the transitions between shots would survive in a professional video, the wheels are an unusual design (in at least two variants, neither seeming to need wheel nuts - held on by magnets?) and the shadows beneath the car aren't right. And if I needed any more convincing this is "Fake News" (and heaven forbid we hear that for the next four years) the clip of the red car is a bit of a give-away. Skoda - Simply Clever but not much good at spelling". But for us oldies, if AI is this good at this stage, how on earth are we going to spot reality from fakes in five years time?

The same with the Fiat 500 (500 what?) and a number of the other cars that used to be "micro" and now dwarf a medium sized family car from 20 years ago. And what with all the operators making their car parking spaces smaller..... where will it all end?

If its any comfort mine does this if I don't pull on the habdbrake hard enough.It's never been a problem - the brakes still hold the car even though there amy be an extra notch with a really good pull.

Thanks Stubod. When I got home I used a watering can to poor water down each of the four drains below the windscreen and then into the channel around the sunroof and got a decent stream of water out of each of them. So I think you are right - it was just the sheer volume of water; it was quite a storm that night but a couple of nights later we had prolonged heavy rain (but nowhere near as intense) and there was no sign of water in the footwell the next morning. I'm going to mark it down to exceptional conditions and not worry about it.

My 1.2 TSi (2013 model) has returned 41.4 mpg over its 11 years, much of which has been short local trips. It's now routinely returning between 43 and 44mpg based on the average of 5 brim-to-brim fills, so much the same as Expatman's 1.2 TSIs. Most of the time it's just me and management in the car and the performance has never disappointed me but in the past I've been on holiday with four adults and all their luggage and whilst some of the hills in the West Country were "challenging" I never felt we weren't going to make it. At those times I've wondered whether the 1.4TSi might have suited me better but they were like hens' teeth. But most importantly - it's never let me down. "Which engine suits the Yeti the best"? The one that doesn't let you down and on that criteria and based on posts I've seen over the years on this forum that rules out the 1.8TSi straight away!"

Thanks Stubod. I'll bear this in mind if it becomes a recurring problem - we've had quite a bit more rain since the tottential storm but everything still seems OK so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

i gThanks for that. I'll try the bike cable when I get home. Hadn't thought of the bulkhead drain but I did have to clean that once before.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. The problems of leaking sunroofs is well documented on this forum and elsewhere but so far (touching wood) I've been lucky and not had this problem. Usually the car is garaged under a car port with a 6' fence down the side so reasonably well protected from inclement weather. But this week we are on holiday in the Peak District so it's parked in the open. And we had a ferocious storm a couple of night ago with thunder, lightening and torrential rain. I went out in the morning fearing the worst and there was a small pool of water sitting on the rubber mat in the passenger footwell but the headlining was bone dry. We had more rain yesterday but no more water so I'm wondering whether it was just the sheer intensity of the rain forcing water past the front passenger door seals? It wasn't a lot of water - less than half a cup - so I was able to take the mat out and pour it away. With still plenty of long term owners on the forum and a good number of former owners looking in I just thought I'd ask if anyone else had experienced this.

If it's the original battery in a 2013 car I'd say its served very well and deserves retirement. To have lasted more than 10 years the battery has done very well and a new one will cost you less than a couple of hours of a technician's time (so to my mind it's a cheap diagnostic test) with the reassurance of knowing you've got a reliable battery for the next few years. If you do fit a new battery bear in mind that sometimes the warning lights still show for the first couple of miles before extinguishing as the electronics rest themselves. (I'm not an expert but have read A LOT of advice on this forum over the years so I'm just repeating it back).

Hi, welcome to the forum. As you've not had replies from any of the more knowledgeable members so far I'll try and help. Problems with doors locking and unlocking often get traced to a break in the wiring loom where they pass through the rubber thingy. The advice has been to pull this back and take a look to see if there is an obvious broken wire. If you can establish this is the problem although a new loom is the recommended fix it comes at a price and people have reported successfully bypassing the break with a new piece of wire. If you search the forum you will find quite a few threads about this issue and in some cases detailing successful repairs. If like me you have neither the skills or patience for car repairs a good indepenedent garage should have seen the problem before, be able to properly diagnose it and do an affordable fix.

Whatever you've got, I hope it gives you at least half as much pleasure as your Yetis obviously have. As you implied, the race to conformity and blandness means there's not much of a choice out there; now in my early 70s I'm wondering whether I can keep my 11 year old Yeti until age, infirmity or death make driving no longer possible. That's how much I hate changing cars. But, reading it back, none of those three options appeal 🙂. So I keep reading post of what people are moving to and the posts why they should have chosen something else, get more and more confused and decide to keep the Yeti a bit longer.... I recognised your comment about most things are "set and forget". My Yeti has park assist - push a button and it parallel parks for you. Except you have to think ahead to use it and I don't think anythng is foolproof so I've used it maybe half a dozen times, back in the early days and usually just to show off to friends. Other than wind the windows up and down and change the wireless everything else stays pretty much the same month to month. Enjoy the new car. And don't forget the Yeti was a car where the surprises just kept coming - see the section "I didn't know the Yeti did that..." I think I was still finding new features years into ownership - like the little lever in the console box. Don't be a stranger to the forum, but understand that as you are no longer a Yeti owner you'll have to sit att he back in the cheap seats - it looks like Graham has put his coat on one to reserve it for you. And I'll also be interested to hear your thoughts on the Mini once you've settled to it.

As above, I'd start with an aging battery as the possible culprit. Over the years there have been lots of weird issues, including various warning lights coming on together, that came down to an aging battery. I experienced this with my own Yeti - new battery, problem solved. Some of the electronics seem very sensitive to battery condition and the problems you are seeing can be an early warning of the batteries demise. Which of course will be after midnight, somewhere remote and with no phone signal.

"Had it to a auto electrian when it first started with just the front passenger door not opening he fitted a new actuator which worked for 2 days then went again , he got in touch with VW who say it could be the module ?" What would we do without Briskoda and its members?

I had a similar problem with my Volvo V50, in part leading me to trade it in for my Yeti. The local garage, a long established Volvo main dealership, tried various things without success and ended up bringing down a Master Technician from Volvo HQ. He confidently diagnoses a faulty dual mass flywheel which was duly replaced under warranty (avoiding a nasty dent in my savings) but it didn't make any difference. So I never got to the bottom of the problem with the Volvo but just as a suggestion could it be a worn, faulty or loose engine mounting? I'm asking only because a family member has a Robin Reliant (you know, one of those cars where they forgot to put a wheel on each corner) and at various times he has had hard to diagnose vibration problems that have come back to an damaged engine mounting - this car seems to just eat them. Just a thought.

"I would check with the Dealer." Past experiences of some members on this forum with their dealers and VW's unfortunate recent history with diesels would make me nervous about being an early adopter but if you think it's worth a go I would try and get something in writing from Skoda UK. At least then if something goes wrong you have the evidence for a potential claim. As VW/Skoda are not listed as manufacturers who have approved the use I'd be cautious.