Mikeymustard

@Brijo which is why I was a little surprised that it's almost impossible to get offroad tyres for the yeti. A/Ts on the Troopers I used, I've seen the evidence that winter tyres are better than A/T in snow, but I've also seen an X5 with winter tyres floundering on a bit of wet grass (they do that a lot!). So it's horses for courses there 🙂

I was just pulling your chain a bit sorry 😉. Again thanks everyone for your advice. As far as an oil burner's concerned, I'd heard they'd done a bit of a knee jerk after dieselgate; besides, as a regular visitor to bristol I don't think I could take the chance of being banned from the city centre so a diesel's a bit of a no no. I think the proposal to ban diesels may be severely watered down but even so?

Because having the 4x4 button makes me better than my next door neighbour 🙄 I'm not sure if I should feel offended by your question but I'm sure you've asked it in good faith and I'll answer it as such: I'm a volunteer ranger on one of our local aonb and sssi's, and my partner is a gardener and also does volunteer restoration and maintenance at another beauty spot. I originally thought Vitara because they have the low range box (and we don't fit in a Jimny) but are still reasonably cheap to run (at least compared to say a landy) and reliable (again, looking at you landy). Having recently seen one of my partner's volunteer chums drive her yeti up a track that I would not have believed a mere car could go if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I started investigating the possibility of something that might be fun to drive on road as well as off, while bringing running costs down to car levels

Sorry my edit went horribly wrong 😊

Ok, well thanks everyone for your frank views 🙂 After finding a report on a US GTI site from an engineer explaining the issues with the tensioner pawl, I'm definitely gonna give this one a miss. However...... I've quite taken to the idea of a 4x4 yeti, so I've started to lean on the OH that a diesel wouldn't be such a bad idea after all! Would I be right in thinking the three iterations of the 2L are basically the same engine with different turbo and/or injectors?

Ok, well thanks everyone for your frank views 🙂 After finding a report on a US GTI site from an engineer explaining the issues with the tensioner panel, I'm definitely gonna give this one a miss. However...... I've quite taken to the idea of a 4x4 yeti, so I've started to lean on the OH that a diesel wouldn't be such a bad idea after all! Would I be right in thinking the three iterations of the 2L are basically the same engine with different turbo and/or injectors?

Hi all, I've recently been looking for an older motor with 4x4 capabilities. The OH has decided that diesel is a no no so it must be petrol. I had originally decided on a Suzuki grand vitara, but I've kinda fallen for a bright red yeti in the same garage as a suzi I was looking at. Having done a bit of research, I've come across a few examples of engine problems in the 1.8, particularly regarding oil consumption and timing chain issues. Is there something I can look out for (and anything else I might need to check), or are these engines just best avoiding? Obviously, being an older car (I think it's got about 120k on it) nothing's problem-free and there's always an element of pot luck about it.