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Thanks peachy i think that’s what I’m going to do, just buy new tyres and put them on the yeti17s

Thanks guys I’ll have ponder and maybe ask my tire guy and see what he thinks. I’m very risk adverse and would hate an insurance claim to be voided by me being tight/ silly. I’ve got a few months to think about it. Thanks again

Ah ok, so the wheels will fit but I will need to change the tyres? They only had one more winter in them anyway.

Hi Skoda Guru’s my wife’s just sealed the deal on a karoq sel on 18 inch wheels. my question is, will the 17 inch winter wheels that we’ve been using on her yeti fit on it? They are 225 50 17, it would be awesome if they did. Thanks in advance tom

Does anyone know if the kamiq will come with varioflex seating? This would make it top of the list when we come to change our yeti. None of the car show ones seem to have it, which would be a shame.

there is a guy on you tuber called tesla Bjorn who drives his tesla in Norway (and I mean he really drives it to the extreme ) he recently slept overnight in -36 with the tesla in "camp mode" which keeps the heater on all night it used about 13 kilometres per hour. his model x has a theoretical range of 400km + so in a tesla at least they would be fine for quite a while it would seem.

Just had a bit of moment myself. Going down a snowy Lane with the Nokian d4s On the yeti when a car comes the other way I stop he doesn't! He came at me like a missile I turned as much as I could and luckily so did he! He ended up by my rear window up on the bank with I'm sure some deep scratches from the hedge. So scary ! In that situation unless both of you are winters it really doesn't matter !

I did wonder because the officer on sky news said even theservice drivers were struggling. I did wonder if the tyres would be the reason.

Just wondering when I was in the army I don't remember landys using special tyres, just stock ones in the winter. Are land rover tyres winter biased ? The army/raf getting called out to help the police today got me thinking.

I put Nokian weatherproofs on on my sons fabia and I had them on my old Octavia. They have good write ups and so far seem brilliant. May be Worth a adding to your list mate

i'm away from home working so I have limited info and my wife went with him to buy it. I will try to find out a bit more info but what I do know is it's 2015 with 11000 miles... he's driven it again now and all seems fine, they are going to send a letter with a full explanation apparently.

just an update for those who are interested...yep water pump had gone... so my best guess is that it was traded in with this issue happening but the previous owner hadn't reported it. The cars then sat on the forecourt my son buys the car, the recall comes that same week, they do the coolant change and don't do a test drive because they are under pressure to get the car ready because we were already a week late. does this sound plausible? btw it didn't overheat until they started driving at the national speed limit so a short drive around town would not have flagged this up.

thanks they took it on Friday and are waiting for parts I will let you know what they say .

ah sorry didn't account for that.

I don't know anything about the bike rack but to get our dog in and out of our yeti we simply fold one of the seats up and the dog jumps in through the passenger door. hope that gives you less restrictions with the bike rack .

We are not going to move it now and the dealership are going to have to recover it back to base. Gutted for my son but he's ok about it... My wife however is a different story! Hopefully he's getting all the bad luck out of the way early!

if this is a thread hijack please let me know and I'll start a new one, we finally picked the car up today after the coolant change recall and when he was driving it home it overheated twice (kept climbing towards the red) and the warning lights came on. My wife who was with my son had to put the heating on full to get the heat down. She's really furious and has emailed the dealer but obviously we won't hear anything back until tomorrow. Any ideas what could have caused this? Starting to wonder about this car now!

my son was due to pick up his new car ( Fabia 2015 1.4 tdi) last Tuesday but the dealer called to say they had to keep it because of a recall on a part and they will contact us when it ready. maybe this was the reason? not a great start to first car ownership but better than having it for a week and then getting the recall I suppose!

look on the bright side, imagine if your car had the radar adaptive cruise control thingy ! id hate to think how much that would cost! the insurance would probably right car off lol

my daughter had a moment today, as she came around a corner a car on her side of the road avoiding a puddle was coming the other way. she had to hug the side of the road and the car hit mud and started to go. She said it suddenly snapped back under control ( ESC maybe?) I cant prove that the tires I put on her car ( Bridgestone winters ) helped in that situation but I don't want to ever think what if I had just spent that bit extra. I may be being dramatic but I will never buy budget tires as long as I can afford it. but I don't judge those who do because every ones got a budget to live with.

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yeah I do think its a strange system to be honest. I'm sure lots of cars do it and I'm sure there is a very good reason but I think its a bit pointless. also you would think with the tech in modern cars it would be able to detect if keys were inside and not lock.

Thanks brijo yeah she's back in now. just glad it happened at a busy supermarket during the day and not at night somewhere quiet ... horrible situation for a female on her own! ok so ive told her to just ignore that button completely now. I think its because she had a Nissan leaf before and she never had to take the keys out of her purse... ah well once bitten and all that

to be honest I don't think she will ever again either lol what a muppet!

yes that's what my daughter is taking to her.