roguebrit

Please do let us know the results of your research...

I think the fact that the one in the pic is lowered, with all the wheel arch clearance removed, makes it look different. It wouldn't do for me.

Judging by the wide variety of cars I have owned or experienced over the last years - it seems to be more usual than not for some, at least, of the bulbs to be 'not user changeable'. Although it may be becoming normal, I think that it's a cop out by the manufacturers. Bulbs can be thought of, almost, as consumable items - conventional ones at least. IMO provision should be made for them to be easily accessible. I wish it would be made 'law' - exceptionally, it is one of the things that EU lawmakers could do that would be sensible, rather than the nonsense they seem to focus on. GRR

Having had mine replaced in January, I was driving down the A1 yesterday and a stone hit the screen - nothing like the impact that caused the damage last time - but a nasty enough crack, and I had a good look when I had arrived - I am pleased to say I haven't been able to locate even a little chip. It could so easily have been another screen needed... Hope Ivor's turns out as good as mine did, Autoglass did a good job on it, I must say.

I do use the tiptronic function all the time and have never had the problem you describe - or any, for that matter. i don't have paddles, of course - but almost as a matter of course, when driving fastish stretches with roundabouts - it's flick to the left, tap, tap, down to 4th or 3rd, into the roundabout, flick to the right and away. Sorry you are having a problem - it will be interesting to know what is causing it, indeed.

I know the feeling. There's been only one other around here for a time, but I have had no response at all from a cheery wave. Now we have another, a double for mine, and I passed it backing into its house drive today. I gave a hearty wave and thumbs up, and received back a look of total disdain and astonishment. How strange. For years I drove Defenders, and the LR Defender folk almost without exception acknowledge each other on the road - it's a good feeling of camaraderie - Yeti's are far more exclusive than LR-Ds around here, and you would think folk would be pleased to say 'hi'. There you go...

I have taken my winters off too - risky perhaps, but I was about to do a lot of mileage - and agree with your thoughts. Next time i buy winter tyres, I think I will get steel rims and cheaper winters so I am not so sensitive about wear on them - mine are 225/50s on the alloys - Contis - my, they were a price!

It's a pity, perhaps, that manufacturers generally don't make this something that can be switched. Personally, I like the fact the sockets are always on - the way they were in my Defenders. In my last two Golfs they switched off, and it drove me nuts when I wanted to charge anything up. Most of these charging tasks use tiny current. Of course if you connect big items - like coolers or whatever, you need to take care. HOWSOEVER - those multi-socket extenders - the ones you plug in and it gives several sockets - isn't there one that has a built in safety switch-off? I seem to recall that one I got from Halfords once had this feature - if input power was off, output power switched off after a time. You could use something like this in the boot...?

Oh - I must have been asleep then - hadn't heard of them - just Googled Alloygators. Interesting I spose..

I need to find out wot an AlloyGator is. Fordfan's very useful and interesting linked thread also contained this as an item that will be checked during MOT - 'Missing anti pollution equipment, catalyst or DPF.' That presumably has implications for those that want to, or have, removed the DPF? It seems more and more is being included in testing, and to some extent, the more you have, features-wise, the more at risk you become. I wonder how these vehicles we are driving now will fare in 12 years time?

Only picked up on this thread just now - but, on the subject of the OP's choice between a Golf and the Yeti. I traded in a Mk 5 2.0 TDI DSG Golf - the 140 ps one - for my Yeti. Having the same engine and box were big factors for me. These two cars have given me more pleasure than most I have owned.. In the spec I had, the Golf was much quicker, and much more economical, especially at motorway speeds, in my experience. I enjoyed driving the Golf immensely - a hugely capable car. I don't know if I would have like the Mk6 as much - I have driven them, but I find it takes a while to adjust to the new body styles - for me, at any rate. But the Yeti, albeit slower and thirstier overall, does a lot more than the Golf could. I take it off-road, with confidence, and it coped with my winter trips in the snow superbly. The flexibility of the seats, and the space ultimately available, is brilliant. The Yeti, in the specs I have been concerned with, is a much more 'technologically equipped' car than the Golf was, and I do enjoy that. In short, I love the Yeti as much as I did the Golf, for different reasons. That won't help the OP at all, sorry!

The manual headlight elevation would suggest not Xenons - that does not make sense. That is a heavy price for a vehicle that is like an ex-demo, isn't it. If we could get them, Yetis would represent a much better investment than ISAs - at the moment, it seems.

Like others, my drivers seat shows a little 'loosening' of the seat, in particular, - since it is the only one I sit on, it is hardly surprising. It looks much like Johann's in the picture, perhaps even a tad looser, in fact. I think this happened in the first few thousand miles and hasn't got any worse (its only done about 9K now). Also like others I am one who doesn't mind this, really. Leather is a natural material and I consider it normal, and to be expected. Almost like a favourite tweed jacket, some 'maturing' of the appearance is almost desirable I think - it comes under the heading of 'honourably acquired mojo'. Of course, if the other seats are not used, or hardly ever, it does mean that a different appearance is inevitable - but as long as the drivers seat doesn't look actually tatty, I have to say it does not worry me. I have a friend with a much older Honda with leather - that looks very aged by comparison, to me, but still looks good. The leather in old Jags is hardly considered 'proper' if it has not acquired a bit of patina. There you go - I hope yours will not deteriorate to the extent you don't like it, Merlinman!

When mine was done, I had 'booked' it nearly a week earlier - it happened on hol, and the new on was fitted when I got back. When they came to fit it - I took it to their local centre - it had a chip on it and there was a bit of panic to find another. In the event they found one in Peterborough and got a driver to drive it down to Bedford - delayed things perhaps 45 minutes. The guy commented - 'we haven't got to do many of these...so stocks are few and far apart. It's not surprising, I suppose, and is a price we pay, temporarily I think, for current exclusivity. Hope its not too long and they do as good a job as they did for me - none could know it had been done, in fact.

The second of TPs was very interesting - real world 'rough-road' - the sort of thing I am doing quite a bit of. My, but some of those ruts were deep though! The mud one looked interesting - or fun, at least. Now where was that thread about using a jet wash?...

I jet wash too - and have the discoloration on the rear badge, at present. I take care to use fairly moderate pressure, and not to dwell on features like that - if this is causing the problem with the badge - it shouldn't be! IMO, of course. And using a low power jet wash is a normal part of car cleaning, and if the Skoda badge can't cope with it - they better change the badge, I think.

Ha Ha - thanks for all replies - the Skoda mug looks exactly like the Rolson one, so if its more than £3.99 it's too much, if less, it's a bargain. Yeah, I know that a lot of things will fit, at a pinch, but the fact is that a lot of ones won't - the diameter of the hole is less than most vehicles out there, that is the point. Stop at a service station and chances are your coffee cup will be too big - FACT. It shouldn't be a tough one to fix, IMO.

I guess it is sensible, but I still share that 'EU interference' gorge rising in my throat... If anyone was worried, I guess that it would be simple to instal a new, plain, button. No-one would ever know, then. And, along that same line of thinking, I hope this does not mean that anyone that has installed decal labels on spare buttons - like the ejector seat one, will fail the MOT because these features are not functioning correctly!

Foolishly, I bought a nice quality Aladdin insulated travel mug - I like to have one that closes - and, of course, it will not fit in the wretchedly small -'cup holders' in the Yeti. I put that in quotes as I am not sure that is even what it is supposed to be - I know the optional ashtray fits in there, for instance. Anyhow, that is what I wish to use it for and it would not have been rocket science for Skoda to have made one that a cup actually fitted into, like every other car manufacturer manages. I was in Maplin this morning - dangerous place to brouse - and bought one with a base that narrows and fits the holder nice and snugly. So snug that I would not know if it would fit one where folk have added the chrome surround - I don't know if that intrudes into the hole further or not (TP, I think, note). Anyhow this one - which sort of looks like chinese generic and may be availble all over in many guises - was marked with the 'Rolson' name, and came complete with a plastic holder, for £3.99. Nothing like as nice quality as the Aladdin, but far more useful - in the Yeti - and less than half the price, too. Just in case someone else is looking..

I will have Beasty serviced every 10,000 miles. In the days when I was driving 50,000 miles a year on business I had a company Passat on the 'flexible' schedule, that had its first oil change at 29,000 miles when it said it wanted it. I had kept telling both the company , and my garage, that I was concerned in case there was an error somewhere, but they all said 'don't panic'. I wouldn't be comfortable with that for a car I owned, but there you go...

Ha ha - yes - I guess you're right, its not that plain on the top. I guess I was thinking more of the acres of chrome that surrounded the knob, all that black base part - which was chrome on my two DSG Golfs and very prone to getting scratched, I noticed.

Interesting thread that obviously arouses some feeling. I have the bi-Xenons because the Beasty came with them. I have to say I find them excellent, they illuminate the road ahead like nothing else, in my experience. I was concerned about the effect on other drivers, but I have never been flashed, to my knowledge. But this is something do care about, on the basis of 'do as you would be done by' - my central tenet of life, as far as I can make it. I have a friend who is a police driver and I have had him drive ahead of me, and towards me, in as many different scenarioes as we could devise (I was 'testing' the bi-Xenons on his car too) and we could not decide that they caused either of us us any problems. Frankly, I have more problems with other folks badly adjusted normal lights than I ever do with Xenons, and this is an occurrence I notice more and more. This is in spite of the fact that I think the higher seating position on the Yeti helps - the Defender was even better, I seldom got dazzled in the last one: the Golfs were noticably worse, of course. Xenons startled me somewhat when they first appeared, they looked so different - but now - having got used to them - or is it that they have got better? - they don't cause me any problems, personally. The cut-off is so well defined that I would think that it would be very easy to tell if Xenons were badly adjusted or causing any problems. . Generally - and not surprisingly - those that have 'em tend to love 'em, I suppose, and those that don't have 'em feel they are the invention of the devil - a bit like it was when the motor car was first invented, in fact! Just my own feelings and opinions, as someone who has them, of course.

YES PLEASE!

Well Dave - thank you so much for my squashed Yeti which doesn't seem to have driven off by itself, like some others. Any pain caused by the inept, or even malicious (I sincerely hope not) by moving anything is more than made up for by the usefulness and interest of this, I feel. With all the recent publicity and gathering pace of the extended Yeti family, breeding fast as it is, the map has a limited window of effectiveness really - it is a bit of a measure of our exclusivity. Long live the map!

I am amazed, as always, TP, by your extraordinary vigilence in picking such things up and telling us about them! You, and Johann - and a few others - should be called the 'Yeti Police'. It's all most appreciated, of course. I like the new one too - I dislike chromey things as a rule. All my Golfs had a large chrome surround to the auto knob that just attracted scratches and looked tacky, to me. I like it saying '4 x 4' on it, as well. That said, it's of little use to me as I have the DSG knob - a very plain affair, I think, and that's OK with me too.