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Without the uncalled for and unnecessary "suckers" you're not wrong!

Here in Spain I just got my renewal for my 2011 TSI Active and it's €341 (£286) up from €325 (£273), that's for comprehensive with breakdown cover, no mileage limits, numerous other benefits, and with €300 (£252) excess so not displeased. As it's 36c outside I'm staying cool indoors with a cold beer and the AC on and out of idle curiosity I decided to punt my info into GoCompare and the first thing I found was that nobody would quote for comprehensive so I knocked it down to TPFT and the quotes came in ranging from £385 (€459), followed by a handful rising to around the £500 mark (€596), then advancing into the thousands culminating in an eye watering £3604 (€4293)! OK I know different companies target different demographics etc. but come on, we're probably as low risk as it gets with no accidents or claims for over 20 years and I put in our old UK address which was also very low risk and limited the mileage to 6000 so how can anyone possibly come up with £3604? Glad I live in Spain where our living costs are amply covered by two basic UK state pensions with money left over each month, I couldn't afford to live in UK anymore.

Don't forget the injectors. I wouldn't be suspecting the battery. When you say 'Garage readout' what exactly did they use? VCDS, or a professional (expensive) scan tool, would have given far more than just 'misfire'!

I have Carista and OBDEleven and the latter is a whole world better!

No piccies but I can imagine!

12.18v is fine for a battery without the engine on, not so when running though when you should be seeing 13.5+ What, if anything, happens if you sound the horn whist actually driving?

Biggest looming problem for you guys is corrosion which will often signal the end of the road for a car long before its mechanicals give out. Thankfully not something we don't have to contend with here in Spain where underneath my 13 year old (come September) would pass for 3 or 4 year old in Blighty! For anyone happy to drive a LHD there are many many cars in similar condition to be had. www.milanuncios.com

Sorry I don't buy that. If the battery were that far gone it's hard to see how the car would even start in the first place but once running the alternator should provide the power to keep it going. Does it happen if you instead turn the headlights on or even just flash them with the stalk, that will draw far more current than any horn. If not then it ain't the battery.

I had to read that twice

No argument there! One problem for me is sharing the car with 'er indoors who, bless her, is a good driver but never drives with economy in mind. In some ways it's a bit of a miracle that I get the mpg that I do!

Aha, I knew there had to more to it than you were letting on, tut tut 98 octane is available here in Spain although there not many outlets with it in my particular area so I'd have to make at least a diversions if not a special journeys to get it on a routine basis. The price differential between the cheapest 98 and cheapest 95 in places I could or would reasonably be likely to fill up is at least €0.20c or 13% though so I'd have to improve my mpg to 44.6 or more to make it just technically viable. Might give it a shot for experimentations sake, it is supposed to be beneficial in terms of inlet carbon build up due to direct injection. Something else very pertinent to fuel economy is tyres, not only by make and model but also degree of wear and pressure, each and all of those can have a significant impact on MPG which kinda makes conversations like this interesting but proof of nothing!

Well done but do you drive like a nun?

Depends on the colour of the car, don't think it would enhance my white one. Here's a link, my treat JR if you want them!

As far as I can tell the towing capacity of the 1.4 is the same as the 1.2, 1200kg, so a futile exercise! https://www.carsguide.com.au/skoda/yeti/towing-capacity/2014

After 3 years bar a couple of months mine has averaged 39.5mpg. I regularly run at 120kph/75mph on the motorway (and sometimes a tad more) Best ever over a full tank was an incredible 49.99mpg (wish I knew why/how!) and worst 32.50 Record keeping by Fuelio app.

Good advice. When you're experienced and comfortable in dealing with electrical and electronic gizmos it's too easy to forget that others may be less so I have a variable current limiting 12v power supply which I use in such circumstances.

Here is the wiring diagram for the passenger door, you can see the two motors and the wire colours/connector pin numbers which feed them. Hopefully applying 12v to one or both will result in an unlocking!

Different car but I've been wrestling with this for some time now, column control not MFW. I've got to the point where with OBDEleven I can see the cruise control commands working, On/Off, Up/Down etc. but still need some additional programming to make it actually work. Ostensibly OBDEleven does it but in practice doesn't! Unfortunately, apart from the main dealer who doesn't want to know, I haven't found anyone with VCDS to do it and I can't justify buying it myself just for this.

If you read your policy carefully you'll likely find that you have a duty to inform the insurer of any ANY accident regardless of fault or lack of apparent damage to your own vehicle. Who's to say that whomever ran into you doesn't suddenly decide to say that you reversed into them?

No, that was the 2 door Equipe, unless you knew the difference the 1750 Sport looked more or less like any other Allegro. Front grille and wheel trims were the main clues unless It was in front in which case the 1750 Sport decal gave the game away. Many boy racers got to see that! Talking of Equipe's though my best mate back in the late 60's had one of these, a Bond Equipe. Poor sod took an early death but I still remember the number ADX 630B!

I had TWO, both 1750 Sport versions, wife wrote the first one off so I went and bought another, that alone must make me unique!!!!!! I covered around 200,000 miles in the pair of with no significant issues, certainly no rear wheels falling off. In mid range acceleration they were something of a q car and gave many a boy racer a surprise! Regular problems were rear subframe rubber bushes and clutch release bearings but both were easy enough to replace and their failure more a result of loony driving and habitual double declutching gear changes. I remember one time having 4 new tyres fitted but went back to the outlet to complain about them, the manager took a ride with me and his only comment was that I had the wrong car not the wrong tyres I'll get me coat too......................

Judging by owner loyalty, strong demand, and residuals I think Skoda made a big bobo when they dropped the Yeti. IMO the replacement is totally characterless blob and at a glance very easily mistaken for a VW or Seat. Few cars of it's time stood out from the crowd like a Yeti!

I agree with JR. I too had a MK1 Octavia, a 2003 1.9 tdi, and in 275,000km driven (~150k miles and 182k miles total since new and with much abuse) I had precious few problems with it and certainly I never once saw an ECU light! On my current much younger and lower mileage Yeti, still only 124k km/67k miles, I've already had to replace the clutch master cylinder and had a number of electrical problems including broken wires in both door looms and a faulty rear hatch lock. Sure it's petrol not diesel and I probably won't live long enough to put the sort of miles on it I did the Octy but I cannot imagine it getting anywhere near 180k miles without major trauma.

CAB BUS works on two wires, CAN H(igh) band CAN (L)ow and if one breaks most stuff will continue to work, it's when the 2nd one breaks it all goes tits up - and they do! Had to repair both my door looms. Front passenger door went completely first and a scan with Carista showed a fault on the drivers door where one wire was found broken. They were very skinny wires, considerably smaller gauge than the other wires in the loom, almost designed to fail!

Don't know where in Europe you are but if it's Spain then 8000€ is right in the ballpark for the car. It's what I paid for my 2011 with 99k km just about 2 years ago and was cheap at the time because there was no service history and a tiny bit of rippling on one rear passenger door. Similar cars but with up to double the km are on offer for that much, and more, on online sales sites. e.g. Milanuncios.com Clutches are extremely light BTW. Fuel consumption has averaged 7.1l/100km or 39mpg in mixed driving.