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While this video is made around our Skoda Yeti, I believe that most of the video is applicable for any DPF equipped Skoda 😊. This video is jam packed full of information! From what "the fix" is on a Skoda Yeti. I also run through the VAG DPF app and what it's telling you and then use it to show what the DPF is doing as your drive and why short runs in a diesel Skoda filled with a DPF do it no good. 😊

It's been about a year or so since we fitted the 16" Tuff Torque steel wheels and Falken Wildpeak AT3Wa all terrain tyres so I thought it was a good time to do a little review video 😊. One point that I do go heavy into is that this modification isn't just relevant to all terrain tyres. There are plenty of 215/65/16 road tyres which could be of interest to a lot of you on our pot holed ridden roads.

If someone had said that I'd be making a 15 minute long video dedicated to the Yeti's washer wiper system, I'd have told them that I must have totally run out of all content! 😁 But I'm actually surprised just how many small and neat features Skoda have packed into the system that many people will have no idea about 😀.

The third installment of my fascinating features series went live over on our YouTube channel last week. In this one it features the drinks cooler built into the Yeti, how a leaky shock isn't always a bad thing and how you can close the windows without even being in the car 😊. Enjoy! P.s, this one may contain some BAFTA award winning acting within it 😄.

Another video from our fascinating features series went live over on our channel recently 😊. To most of you this feature will not come as a surprise but I still wanted to highlight it as it's one of my favourite features on the Yeti 😁. If you have a couple of minutes to spare then enjoy seeing me having a teddy bears picnic with the aid of the easy to remove rear seats 😀.

Taking the channel in a slightly different direction while the winter months are upon us and doing a series of videos of some of the features on the Skoda Yeti 😊. I admit that I have a face fit for radio and I'm not host material, but until our budget grows substantially, then it's my ugly mug in front of the camera for these 😄. If there's any other features on the Yeti that you're particularly proud of or just think, now that's a cool feature, then leave it in this thread and I might include it in a future video 😁.

After many miles of happy motoring the engine management light has shown itself on the dash of our Skoda Yeti! After a quick scan with our Autel AP200 Bluetooth diagnostics reader, it showed us the code P067100 and the description "Cylinder 1 Glow Plug Circuit". We decided not to tackle this job ourselves for the fear of twisting the head off of 1 of the glow plugs and having an even worse problem on our hands 😄. Instead we called out Taylor Made Tuning, a local mobile mechanic to do the job for us. A couple of notes, do your research before buying glow plugs for a Yeti. I cannot be sure but I think the EA189 (non-adblue engines) have 4 normal glow plugs fitted. The newer EA288 (adblue engines) have 3 normal glow plugs in cylinders 1, 2 and 4 with cylinder 3 having a pressure sensing glow plug fitted. Please double check this before taking it as gospel. Before doing the job, take the car out for a drive to heat up the engine. This will aid the removal of the glow plugs. The glow plugs that were removed which we believe to be fitted from the factory were Bosch with the following information... 0 250 403 007 FRANCE VW AG 03L 963319 (RB3) 4.4V 2 04 04 2014 The glow plugs that we got fitted were also Bosch with the following information on the box... 0 250 403 009-EAF DURATERM HS 194 955 573 Made in France Here's a few pictures for you:

A few pictures from our weekend... If you squint a little, our Yeti almost fits in 😁. Our friend made us a Yeti for our Yeti! 😁 Yeti chilling out in the Yeti 😊. Don't leave a white car unattended when there are muddy people around 😂.

Between Alana and myself, we are part of a Facebook group called the Muddy Freelander Group. The group is run by a company called MuddyMods that specialise in Freelander parts and modifications. Each year they put on an annual event called Muddy Weekender for anyone and everyone on the group to meetup. Not only that, MuddyMods hire exclusive use of both of Billings off road courses to use for the weekend. For anyone that has been to the Billing off road show, it's that place and those courses 😁. Seeing as we don't live too far away from the event, we took both the Freelander along and also the Yeti. We were super lucky that on the Friday, Chell and Warren from MuddyMods let us tag along as they setup the course on the Friday evening ready for the weekends action. Alana's grown very fond of the Yeti and the course overall is a bit much for our Yeti in its current form. That didn't stop us having a little go at 1 or 2 bits of the course as we went around 😁. As a side note, if you want to see the video we have made from the weekend then give it a watch: https://youtu.be/4FQjQmPYdqE

I think my personal first port of call would be to check that the battery is in a good state of health. A lot of electrical gremlins can be either caused by the battery being at a low state of charge or even if the voltage has dropped during cranking and sent everything a bit crazy which then puts lights on the dash and codes on the ECU when nothing is actually wrong. If the battery is fully charged and fine, I'd try to get some live data from the wheel speed sensors to see if one of those is failing. Another option is to find an empty bit of road and safely jump on the brakes to activate the ABS (or not if it's not working). Sometimes if things have been sitting, things can get a bit sticky and need something to wake them back up 😁.

In the video above, we had Falken Wildpeak AT3Wa all terrain tyres fitted which are 215/65/16. I'd more than happily carry out back-to-back tests, I would just need a testing ground to keep the route equal, a tyre machine to change the tyres and for a tyre supplier to lend me all different tyres to test 😁. The videos main purpose is just to give people the idea of what there car is doing at different road scenarios. 😀 But I do agree that running different tyres with different conditions could make for a fascinating video to see how hard or little the Haldex does work. 😀

For those of you that own a 4x4 Yeti, have you ever wondered how much or how little your car is actually running in 4 wheel drive while you're casually driving around? Well wonder no more as I plugged in our Autel in once again and recorded our drive as Alana and myself went about our normal weekend business. I plucked out a few of the clips and talked through what I personally thought was going on at different points in the video.

Hi @Chua 👋. I love hearing from other owners that have modified their Yeti. Hopefully a few more Yeti or just fellow VAG owners in general will come out of the woodwork with their off-road or overlanding cars so we can all share ideas with things that work or things that just really don't work 😄. Your car looks great and I'm always going to be jealous of your near white sandy beaches you have over there 😎. Although I hear that the corrugated roads are not too enjoyable 🙈😁. Have you got any pictures of the side awning and shower awning setup? Alana's idea is to slowly turn our Yeti into something overland spec over time 😀.

Thanks @Moorland 👍. I remember using the hill descent on our Freelander 2 for the very first time and the shear almost panic I felt as I thought it was going to go shooting off down a hill almost out of control 😅. It's very reassuring when both the Freelander 2 and Yeti catches on and brings things under control 😁.

This is a video that I found very fascinating while editing it. Before we went to Tixover Quarry I had a little browse on the Autel to see what live data I could see. Imagine what my geeky little mind was like when I found out it could get data from the Haldex! 😄 With that in mind, I plugged the Autel in while we were going around Tixover and recorded the data and overlaid it onto the video footage. For me, it really was fascinating to see how much and how little it was running in 4 wheel drive at different times around the quarry. 😁