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I wonder what's the price tag for the blonde option and how long you need to wait Yeti if you order it with her.

Thanks ejstubbs for explain explanation So I will need to visit service and check if something other then "Pussyfooting around with the clutch" cosing this.

I didn't use off-road button over that hill, but I did last time when getting out from deeper snow and I still felt it. Winter tyres (Michelin Alpin A4) The AWD coupler is a sealed unit; it doesn't have any breathers to allow gas/smoke to escape. Not to mention the fact that it's a wet clutch like an automatic transmission's, unlike a manual transmission's dry clutch. Even if it was overheating and boiling its oil and/or venting gas/smoke into the air where you could smell it. I would suspect the smell you're noticing is from the brake calipers (assuming you have ESP on your car). In snow, You've gotten your brakes so hot from ESP intervention that I've boiled my brake fluid! And yes, there was the expected hot brake/clutch smell. You are smelling brakes. It is from the ABS modulating the brakes to prevent wheels from free-spinning and allowing the open differentials to distribute torque to only one wheel. This just means the ESP system is doing its job, perhaps too much. Of course, if you turned it off, you may notice the car gets stuck easier in situations when all of the wheels don't have the same amount of traction. For example, ESP provides an advantage when half of the car is in slush or ice and at least one of the wheels on the other side of the car has dry pavement or more-packed snow to bite on to. I've always noticed funny smells on all my vehicles when driving in the snow. Part of it, I think, is the dirt and salt and general road grime that gets kicked up onto the hot exhaust from the slush and snow. I don't think the rear diff coupler will get hot enough to burn that crud, but the 600-degree exhaust will burn just about anything that gets thrown up onto it. This is explanation friend found for me on the other forum. According to this you can't smell friction plates overheating even if they are. I will try to turn off ESP next time when trying to get out from deeper snow. If it smells again I will visit service and will tell them to check prop-shaft.

It would be strange coincidence DPF regeneration almost every time when I was getting out from little bit deeper snow. I just hope friction plates weren't damage too much when I was trying to get over that hill.

I think it was different kind of smell (but it's hard to tell since it was mixed with smell of burning tyres) when I was trying to go over that hill and it lasted for whole day (that was probably friction plates overheating). Other times it was more like burning rubber and lasted for short time.

If you mean I didn't fully release clutch, probably since I didn't want car to jump when trying to get out from the snow. So I need to be careful to release clutch fully before wheels starts spinning. Don't have experience with this since this is my first 4x4 cars so with previous car didn't get in situation where wheels were spinning too much.

Recurrently in couple of situation, mostly after trying to get out from the snow everybody in the car were able to smell something like burning rubber. Those were situation like moving out from parking spot covered with the snow: front wheels were slipping just for the short time (less then sec) until Haldex send torque to the rear wheels and car went out easily. Smell was most intensive when I tried to get over steep hill. In that case wheels were slipping for 5 sec before car manage to get over the hill, even smoke came out from under bonnet. After that adventure, cars were smelly all day. I am wondering if this is smell of burning tires because front wheels need to slip for a bit before Haldex sends torque to the rear wheels or something else is overheating (clutch or breaks(if ESP activates)). I have Michelin Alpin A4 tires.

Also don't forget about differences between equipment levels in Europe and UK. For example there is no Elegance model in Serbia. Here top level equipment Yeti is called Experience.But it's not just the different name.Unlike Elegance in UK it doesn't have leather seats but it has RRP (and this isn't only difference).

+1 And not just because I have it in my Yeti . I saw and tried the old one in demo Yeti when I went for test ride. It doesn't just look nicer it feels better when you hold it.

I have it in my Yeti :

I've got my toy Yeti as gift from my dealer when I went to pick up my Yeti .

Here are a couple of pics of my Yeti:

Sorry, didn't saw you post Maffia . It's probably more related to the small market in Serbia (it's easy to cover it), and also here 1.2 TSI is most common choice (and nobody is even thinking about sunroof). People, here, with bigger budget are not willing to give for Yeti 27000 euros like I did. With that kind of money they will go for used Mercedes, Audi or BMW. Even if they decide to go for new crossover in that price range than they prefer something like IX35 since it's much easier to impress neighbors with X3 or X5 look-a-like then with quirky Škoda . Even Nissan dealer told me that they don't see Yeti as competition to Qashqai (and sadly, here, this is entirely true).

I did some more testing yesterday and while you definitely can drive it according to gear switch indicator (around 1400-1500 rpm) engine is much more responsive if you rev it little bit higher and real fun starts around 1800-2000 rpm . So my conclusion is that gear switch indicator is not imprecise but rather conservative comparing to one in Auris.

Exactly, at around 1400 rpm it's telling me to shift but my subjective feeling is that engine is struggling if I don't keep it at least on 2000 rpm. It's probably influenced by what I was used to get from 2.0 D-4D (engine was dead at 1400 rpm).

Thanks, I will check it with dealer when I go to resolve problem with seats memory.

Yeti is finally here,or better yet it's already here after only 2 months of waiting. It's 2.0 TDI 170ks and Experience package is something similar to UK Elegance package without leather seats and with Rough Roads Package. On top of Experience package it has sun roof,TPM,MDI,electric seats,bolero with 12 speakers, blue tooth GSM II, 3 spoke steering wheel... (all in all 12 additional options). I took it yesterday and drove it some 180 miles on highway and some bandy roads full of potholes (it's easy to find testing ground for Yeti in Serbia ). First impressions are very positive. It's much more fun to drive then Auris and it's amazingly quiet for boxy shaped car although engine is little bit noisy at high speeds. Handling in corners is also nice. It's basically car that behave like nippy hatchback but unlike with it you can be relaxed with Yeti even on the bad roads. Couple of things I noticed: Seat memory is not working but somebody already mentioned that problem can be solved with seat memory re-coding. When sun roof is opened beside wind sound that is to be expected there is also whistling, not loud, sound even if roof is just tilted (I wonder if those of you who have sun roof also can hear it). Gear indicator on MDF is not very precise (like on Auris for example). It's telling me to switch in to 6 gear at 50 mph. Maybe this is more related to deferent type of engine that doesn't have strictly linear acceleration like one in Auris (2.0 d-4d). All in all I like it. Will post pictures as soon as I find time to take them.

I don't know anybody in my country that waited any Å koda vehicle longer then 3 months but I didn't know what to expect for Yeti since it is also very popular here (but mostly it's version with 1.2 TSI engine). I ordered my Yeti Experience TDI 170KS, which amongst many additional options also have sun roof, at the beginning of December and I will be getting it next week Thursday. It is with the dealer since Monday but we here have ridiculous custom and registration procedures. So only two months between order date and until it was delivered to the dealer. On top of that between those two dates you have Christmas holidays . I explicitly asked my dealer if somebody, who ordered same Yeti long before me, has given up on it and if they just used that order for me. He assured me that it was just regular order procedure. Even if I was lucky this is 3 times less then you guys wait in the UK (and you can't even order sun roof). Only explanation I see, as I already said, is that Å koda have different contingents of parts and engines for different countries or markets of different sizes.

It's more like overclocking then hacking

Cheers Mike. It wasn't clear from the Bolero manual.

What about contacts in your address book with more then one phone (for example mobile and work phone for one entry). In cases like this can you see all tel. numbers assigned to the contact with GSM II. In the Bolero manual I found this: Displaying information relating to a phone book entry 5) – Press the function key on the right next to the phone book entry you which to display. The call numbers stored under this entry are displayed. – If you press on the entry of a call number, the connection to this call number will be established. 5) Only valid for the universal Phone preinstallation GSM III. But it's only valid for GSM III. How is this done with GSM II?

Yes there is no diff lock on the Yeti but I didn't know Haldex can send power to any wheel independently and not just to the rear axis. There is ESP\TCS button that you can use to switch Traction Control off. But if you already have offroad button and you turn it on, that should be a signal for Haldex not to act as if you are on highway

I wonder if you turn on offroad function what's happening with ESP\TCS. Is it still functioning like in normal road conditions? When ever I was stuck with my 2wd Auris turning off ESP was way to go.

There's more then enough room for three yorkies to watch TV

So manual switch to 50:50, in case it's necessary, would be handy after all