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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. 😁

Here's a couple of small videos that I've put together from the footage I got during our time at Tixover Quarry. This first one is showing the hill descent feature at work going forwards down a hill and in reverse. This second one is a very non-scientific video showing the difference between going up a slightly technical section with the traction control switch on and with the traction control turned off.

I have no idea when it comes to VCDS stuff, but I do know of a post referring to a VCDS safety net that might help you undo any changes that you have done 😀: https://www.yetiownersclub.co.uk/threads/heated-windscreen-problem.8489/?post_id=99421&nested_view=1&sortby=oldest#post-99421

See if your issue looks anything like ours 😀:

Normally I wait until Monday to post our latest Yeti video to the forum. But seeing as it's a bank holiday, I thought I'd get it up early in case anyone has a spare 40 minutes at the weekend 😄. If you want to see all the sights, hear all the sounds but thankfully not smell the smell of hot clutch then this video may just be for you 😄. This is pretty much all of the footage that we got from the day all packaged up into 1 video. Included in the video is a few Yeti wheel lifts, the car takes a little dip into Tixover Quarrys water crossing, Alana covers me in sloppy mud and I see if the Yeti will reverse up the axle twistery bit 🙈😄. Enjoy! 😀

When we bought our Yeti, we were intrigued at how good or not it was going to be when taken off-road. Were the features all show but no go? Or was there actually some serious work that has been put into the off-road features? When we have used the Yeti on some green lanes, we had a small sneak-peek at how the hill descent works. The problem was, the hills were never normally steep enough or long enough to really get a good feel for it. While we were at Tixover Quarry during a pay and play day, we found a decent hill to try it out on. Although we had a rough idea that the hill descent was good, we didn't realise just how good it was going to be! Let me start off with the cons... As with most hill descent programs, there is a small lag between coming off of the brakes and it kicking in. But this could be the way we are operating the car. Now the pro's... It works in 1st, 2nd, 3rd which you would kind of expect. But it also works in neutral and reverse! Once the system has the car fully under control, it brings the car down at such a slow speed. This can be adjusted by using the brake or throttle. There wasn't enough of a hill for us to try this out on. On a firm surface, the braking is ultra smooth. It's not all jerky and grabby. When the gradient levels out, you can feel the brakes release and the system deactivate, but even that is done in a very smooth and gentle fashion. The light on the dash is very informative, green = hill descent ready, flashing green = hill descent is in control. Although you cannot really feel the hill descent at work, you can certainly hear the odd drum from the ABS system on each of the wheels as it works out which wheel to send what amount of braking force to that has the most traction. We have a Freelander 2 that's 5 years older than our Yeti and while the hill descent is good on the FL2, the Yeti's is much better. It's a very surreal feeling having your feet tucked right back and putting all the faith into someones programming and letting the car do all of the braking for you. I have to give big credit to Alana because when I say about doing it in reverse in the video, that was the first that she heard about doing it in reverse too. I also hoped that I'd read the manual correctly and it did actually work in reverse or otherwise she was in for a very fast ride coming down the hill! 😂 For me, it was very interesting watching the footage as she come down in reverse. Coming down forwards is one thing as the weight of the engine helps to force the front tyres into the ground. In reverse, you can see that weight almost working against the system and there was a lot more work being done by the braking system to keep the car under full control 😃.

One thing that I always think is lacking from some of our videos is any form of data to give you the real idea of what's going on. Enjoy this video where Alana heads around some of the bits at Tixover Quarry, complete with some on-screen dials 😃. If you stick around until the end of the video, you'll see Alana have a splashing good time in the water and serve up some Yeti shaped "doughnuts". 😄

I'm going to talk from a purely 4x4 perspective because there are far more knowledgeable people than me to talk about all the other bits on a Yeti 😄. Make sure that when turning tight corners that the backend of the car doesn't feel like it's skipping or jumping. This can be a sign that the Haldex hasn't been serviced or is faulty. Also, if you can find any form of loose surface on your test drive, do a nice aggressive standing start if you can. It's a good way to make sure the 4 wheel drive system actually works and you're not buying a 4 wheel drive car that's been converted to front wheel drive to avoid a costly bill... 😃 Edit: Posted at the same time as the previous owner but I'll leave my post as-is 😃.

Welcome @db-skoda 👋. Providing there is service history for the car and things that need to be changed have been changed in a good and timely fashion, then the engine side of things should be good. Being in Aus-land I'm guessing you don't have to worry so much about salty roads through the winter rotting things away? 😁 With it being a 4x4, I'd check to see if there is any service history on drivetrain items such as any sort of oil change on the Transfer Bevel Box which sits on the front axle and rotates the drive 90 degrees so it can be sent down to the rear axle. Also see if it's had any sort of Haldex service. This should be done every 3 years with the mesh screen in front of the Haldex pump being cleaned or changed together with an oil change with Haldex oil. Also look for any rear differential oil changes. As for taking a Yeti off-road, my partner and I take ours off-road and have done some modifications to it. You can see a playlist of videos over on our YouTube video to give you some idea what we have done 😃. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9yw83K_tIVfMYleR8YLkttjBcDS8MGBO

We bought a Yeti, modified it a bit, maintained it a bit, took it green laning, so the last thing really on the list is to take it to its first pay and play day 😁! We booked onto Darkside Developments Tixover Takeover day where they literally had the keys to the Tixover Quarry off-road centres gate. A couple of things to note, the first being that we had never been to the Tixover Quarry site before so this was as much about finding our feet at the quarry as it was learning about the car. Secondly and most importantly, seeing as the Yeti is in pretty decent nick, we are trying to keep it somewhat that way. So no mad off-roading moves from us. Just a gentle bimble around to see how the Yeti faired when various obstacles were put in front and behind it 😁. This isn't the only video from the day. What I'd like to know from people on this forum is would anyone like to see the longer edit from the day? 😃

For those of you that prefer a more raw version to what we do this is for you 😃. Here is an hours worth of video of the Yeti and us loving life on the Cotswolds green lanes 😁. For those of you that like to hear/see the Yeti's off-road capabilities at work, head to about the 11 minute mark. If you listen closely or have headphones on, you'll hear a low rumble/bassy sound as we head up the slippy hill. That's the Yeti using the braking system on separate wheels both keeping traction but also trying to keep the car heading on the desired direction. Anyone else find that a pretty neat feature or is it just me? 😄