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Here's a useful video of how to replace a daytime driving light DRL bulb on a Yeti: Read the comments to this video, as the tips to 'wriggle' instead of rotating the bulb holder or to jsut gently pull the wires to the bulb, helped. DRL bulb: Volkswagen N 10776301

Excellent explanation Wino. So my debris evidence was right, the airflow is a bit convoluted. Given Langers2k's proof of sided Skoda parts, both filters used in my vehicle must have been LHD ones. Neither had a part number or other indication of handedness on the actual filter, just an airflow arrow. The aftermarket one I bought had a Repco part number on its packaging, so I've written to Repco to point out their compatibility database is wrong for that part number, for RHD Yeties in this country. Naturally, I didn't see the packaging for the OEM filter installed by the dealer, which I replaced. Thanks both of you for definitive answers to an unclear issue.

Thanks Wino and Kenny R, it makes sense that the air should flow from the firewall, rearwards towards the cabin. It also more probable that I am the idiot and not the RHD conversion design team at Skoda! However, note the cut-corner on my second photo (the close up of the debris) for orientation. The filter was turned upside down for this shot, as all the debris was caught on the cabin side ('wrong' side according to the arrow). I took this as an indication that Skoda plumbs the airflow towards the firewall up to the demisting outlets, and so the arrow is wrong. None of the 'plumbing' can really be seen from under the dashboard, so the airflow can't readily be traced. If there are handed filters, I wonder why the filters aren't labelled as RHD or LHD to avoid possible confusion in this global market? Obviously then, the Australian market has been supplied with the wrong ones on at least two occasions! (I reckon I'm safe to suggest there are no LHD Yeties in Australia, as the Yeti is pretty rare here on our distant island in its RHD configuration.) As the filter is assymetric (due to the cut-off corner) and only fits one way, and there is only one filter type (unlabelled) sold here; I'll just carry on as is. Thanks for your time and I appreciate your input.

The direction of the airflow through a cabin filter medium is obviously a design issue, as the direction is marked on the base of the filter. I purchased an aftermarket cabin filter (in Australia: Repco part number RCF549A, $30) to replace the OEM filter ($270 supplied and fitted by dealer) in a 2014 Skoda Yeti Outdoor (4x4, 103kW 2.0 L diesel, automatic DSG). The Repco filter matches the Skoda OEM filter, too well if the markings on both the OEM and the Repco filters showing the airflow direction; if my logic below is correct. Skodas were designed as LHD vehicles, and the Yeti's cabin filter was designed to fit under the dashboard in the front passenger's footwell, with the air flowing from the cabin/rear towards the firewall/front. The filter is asymmetric, with a 'cut corner' which is probably to account for a ventilator pipe outboard of the filter housing, so the cut-corner faces the passenger door (to the right in a LHD vehicle). This means the feed (dirty) side of the filter medium faces the cabin, and the filtrate (clean) side faces the front of the vehicle. In producing the Yeti in a RHD configuration, as sold in Australia and the UK, Skoda necessarily mirrored the dashboard layout. So the cabin filter fits in the LHS of the dashboard with the cut-corner now facing the LHS to clear the outboard ventilator pipe (to the left of the filter housing in a RHD vehicle). However, I suspect that Skoda failed to recognise that this reverses the asymmetric filter relative to the airflow (still flowing from the cabin/rear to the firewall/front), and so failed to specify a specific cabin filter for RHD vehicles in which the filter medium is reversed to match the airflow in the heating and cooling system when the filter is fitted. So in my RHD Yeti, the used filter had all the debris caught on what should have been the filtrate (clean) side of the filter medium. Duh!

Hi Muddyboots, If you're still active, after six years, did you put these guides together? cheers

I know who you mean, as I use their Tanunda branch. My latest service report recommended the cabin pollen filter be replaced, but fortunately none were in stock. Their quote to supply and fit: $274. YouTube showed where this filter hides (since the Owner's Manual doesn't), so I took the Repco solution ($30) which took me 15 minutes to fit.

I bought a 2014 Yeti Outdoor just over a year ago. My first Skoda, SUV and diesel.