Dogsbuddy

Further Update Well after 3 months with no recurrance the problem is finally back with avengence. On pretty well every trip now all the above warning lights are now coming on so I booked the car into my local trusty Skoda dealers. They have confirmed, as predicted by Bexhillian and Brookfold1, a failed NSR ABS sensor. However, they are quoting £402 to fix for a new sensor (£68) and wheel hub bearing (£135) plus labour and including the diagonistic charge. This seems a bit steep on the face of it. I assume they have deemed the ABS ring also to be knackered hence quoting to replace the whole wheel hub bearing assembly. Anybody know if the ABS ring is replaceable separately? Parts seen online seem a good deal cheaper but may not be OEM. Anyone have some useful input?

An update. So far no recurrence of the cascade of warning lights. The car is not in daily use so perhaps still early days and I would be somewhat incredulous if a simple reset of the tyre monitor has solved the problem. We shall see!

Well dry this morning so checked battery voltage after the car had been standing overnight, 12.26V so not ideal. Ajusted all tyre pressures and reset tyre pressure monitor. The exterior temperature monitor is still working so I image that can be ruled out. However, it was dangling free having fallen out of its mounting bracket, if it was ever in there as that section of the wiring loom looks too short. Not a simple task to re-locate it without removing the grill unless you have 8 inch long fingers although I gather some have succeeded. I expect I will resort to just attaching it to the grill with a cable tie. My guess is that it will prove to be an ABS sensor but unfortunately I do not currently own a VCDS scanner and it is likely to be a little while before I have a reason to use the car again to see if the problem recurrs.

Thanks for the replies so far. I will check the battery voltage tomorrow if it stops raining! It is still the original battery as far as I know so is unlikely to be in prime condition but to give rise to these, hopefully, false alarms while the enigine is running seems a little odd. I did not reset the tyre pressure monitoring although I now see that the manual recommends that you do so. Another job for when it stops raining. Hopefully not the exterior temperature sensor as removing the front grill looks a pain especially if it doesn't stop raining!

Driving home yesterday and about 5 miles out after a round trip of some 50 miles the dash suddenly lit up like a Christmas Tree! All very festive but also somewhat concerning! The following warning lights came on: 1. Tyre Pressure 2. Traction Control/Electronic Stability Control 3. ABS 4. Power Steering/Steering Lock 5. Lamp Failure However, the car still appeared to drive normally and got us home without further incident. It was raining at the time so wipers and headlights were on. This morning, having plucked up courage to investigate I started up the car and found that only the first 3 warning lights listed above came on. However, after driving no more than 200 yards around my drive, all the remaining warning lights extinguished! I have not yet ventured out on to the road with the car to see if they stay off! By way of further background the tyre pressure warning light came on during a trip a few days ago but extinguished itself again after 10 minutes or so. All tyre pressures were OK and more or less the same. Late last year this car suffered from a leaking sunroof which saturated the passenger and nearside rear footwell. The sunroof seal was fixed under warranty (the car was a Skoda approved vehicle). The thought occurs that this issue might have been caused by water ingress corroding any floor mounted electronics or wiring and that it is also likely to recur. Can anyone offer any insight to the problem? I hope I’m not going to regret not rejecting the car when I had the sunroof issue!

I purchased my Yeti from our local Skoda Dealer in mid September. It soon became apparent that the rear wiper motor was defective and this was replaced without question by the supplying dealer. Seven weeks into my ownership I discovered that the passenger front and rear nearside footwell carpets were saturated, most likely due to a leaking sunroof. The supplying dealer collected the car and had it for 8 days to replace the sunroof seal and dry the car out. To give them their due this was all done at the dealers expense, notwithstanding that according to Skoda’s used car warranty, the sunroof is an excluded item! The car was returned to me, without prior notice, last Friday but on inspection both nearside footwells were still wet. The rear so wet that water oozed out of the carpet when pressed. Subjectively this was even worse than before, although last Friday was one of the rare dry days this autumn. Clearly the carpet is never going to dry out naturally during the winter months giving rise to misted up windows and musty smells, quite apart from it being near impossible to tell if the problem has been cured! This was bad enough but on driving the car I then discovered that both the Park Pilot and Park Assist functions were not working and displaying faults whereas they had been functioning correctly before the car was collected (not that I have ever used Park Assist). I can’t imagine that removing the sunroof would disturb these functions unless, possibly, the battery was disconnected or if they did remove the carpet, as they claim, they disturbed some connections. My concern now is that water may have entered the wiring loom through connectors under the carpet and shorted out these systems which I imagine share some functionality. If this is the case then other spurious electrical problems seem likely to occur and it would therefore seem prudent to reject the car rather than risk facing further problems in the future. In some respects this would be a shame as I do like the car and enjoy driving it but it is quite the worst experience I have had of any new or used car I have bought over the last 50 years. I would therefore welcome other owner’s on the likelihood of water ingress being the cause of the latest problems. The dealer has again collected the car this morning to try to rectify these issues and seemed genuinely concerned about the problems I am experiencing but no doubt it will be another week or two before I see it again. In the meantime, I am making my views known to the service manager in writing and asking for a full report on the work carried out.

I’ve only had my Feb 2015 L & K 2 months and have already had to have the rear wiper motor replaced, so I was somewhat miffed to find yesterday that that the nearside passenger footwell carpet was sodden and the dampness extending to the rear nearside footwell but with no obvious visible source of water ingress. A quick test of all four sunroof drainage tubes resulted in a good flow of water out of all exits accompanied with a satisfying gurgle, so the blocked drain tubes do not appear to be the cause. As this is a ‘Skoda Approved Used Car’ and has covered only 26,000 miles from new I have no wish to have to mess around pulling off bits of trim to find which particular problem was afflicting my car and fix it myself and was planning just to take it back to the local dealer I bought it from and have them fix it under warranty. I was therefore dismayed to note from Munrorunner’s post that body components including sunroof assemblies, are apparently not covered under Skoda’s Approved Warranty Scheme (since confirmed by reading the cover booklet). How very convenient, given the multitude of problems VG sunroofs seem to suffer from! This seems a bit rich, as in my view a properly maintained sunroof that leaks is either a design fault or a manufacturing fault and not fit for purpose, so we shall see. At least Monrorunner seems to have had a successful outcome, albeit with a lot of hassle, so fingers crossed hoping my dealer will prove to be reasonably sympathetic.

Even more perversely, this morning, after a full week of refusing to turn off it is now working normally!! I hope the supplying dealer can still be pursuaded to replace it when I take it in next week.

Many thanks. Seems like a rather perverse piece of design, hopefully the replacement will last longer than the 3.5 years of the original!

Picked up my Yeti a couple of weeks ago but it has become apparent that it has an issue with the rear screen wiper. Initially it would stick repeatedly rather than wipe smoothly. Having seen earlier posts suggesting that this is not an uncommon problem with cars built around the same time, I booked it in for a replacement wiper motor next week. Fortunately, as the car is an approved used Skoda it shouldn’t cost me anything other than time. However, making a longer trip in near monsoon conditions the other day the wiper decided to start working correctly, that is until I tried to turn it off! It will not, unless the ignition is also off, very annoying, so I have had to spring back the wiper so it does not continually wipe a dry screen. Yes the front wiper switch is in the off position and I have also disabled auto wipe in the MFD to no effect. I assume I do still need a new wiper motor unless anyone has any other ideas as to the cause of the problem?

Hi, finally taken the plunge and bought myself a Yeti. It's a 2016 L&K 1.4 manual in grey and replaces a 2008 Mini Clubman Cooper that I've owned for the past 5 years. Reasons for the change, the wife hated the poor ride in the Mini and I had a need for a vehicle with reasonable off road capabilities. I have always admired the Yeti, I guess I like boxy cars having owned an X-Trail for 12 years. Well it is a very practical shape, if something of a mud magnet though not quite as bad as the Mini! The plan is to run the Yeti as a two seater, as we did with the clubman, to accommodate our 3 chocolate labs with a Barjo dog guard fitted behind the front seats. Boot liner and bumper protector all on order, so dogs not allowed in it until fitted!