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No radar. Only "normal" cruise control. Would have been nice otherwise to "park" close behind a big lorry in the slipstream on the freeway to extend range.

Nice! Exactly the same colour combination I have on my Citigo. Good luck with it. Regarding the Skoda connect app, it connected to my car the first time i tried and has been working eversince. However, the dealer from which I bought my Citigo didn't manage to connect their demo for some reason. If it works or not seems to be different from one case to another. There is also an app called "Move & Fun" that should be used to connect the phone to the car via Bluetooth but it isn't available yet it seems. However, the e-UP! equivalent called "Maps + more" works also with the Citigo so you can just as well use that meanwhile.

Well, the 100% to 0% capacity is there, isn't it. The WLTP figures doesn't take life span of the battery in to consideration as far as I know. I just pointed to some facts that affect the life span of li-ion batteries and if you normally run 100% down to 60% on your daily commute it's better for your battery to run 80% down to 40%. If you lease the car, probably you don't have to take any of this in to consideration, but I own my car and intend to use it for at least 10 years if possible, so for me it's a different situation. I will also charge it to 100% when I need the range but on daily basis 80% to 20% is more than adequate for 2-3 days of use. I just wanted to point out that if you don't need the full range between charges there are benefits of not charging it to 100%

You shouldn't charge it up to full anyway 😉 . There is a consensus amongst the battery experts that you shouldn't recharge the battery to 100%, and not completely drain it, for a longer life span. I know that VW allready have taken precautions by only letting 32Ah of 36Ah be available but that is probably anyway a compromise between performance and longevity. A li-ion have the longest life span if it can be "half charged" all the time. I try to avoid charging over 80% indicated and running below 20%. If you need the full capacity (100%) you should plan charging so you drive away a.s.a.p after a full charge. And if you are not going to use your car for a period of time, dont let the car sit with fully charged batteries. Empty is not good either. Ideal for storage is between 60 and 70% charge but probably anywere between 20 and 80% is fine in most cases.

It's the equivalent to the SEL with the Privacy glass, Variable boot floor and Winter pack. The only options we have here in Sweden is metallic colours. You are probably right about the boot light. I'ts hidden quite well and not very bright so propably when it's really dark you see it. I'll check tonight.

I just did. Collected my Citigo e iV last Friday. Candy White with black ceiling and black rear view mirrors. Has driven it approx. 95 miles and is very happy with it so far. Here's a small list of my impressions so far. Pros: Feel- and are much faster than the old Citigo we have. (except for top speed though) Extremely easy to drive in all situations. Very quiet. Spacious in the front seat. Don't feel like a small car when you drive it. Relatively good range, even in winter. The drive home from the car dealer was 42 miles and it took exactly 1/4 "tank". Electric heated front window. Rain sensor. (The old Citigon didn't even have adjustable interval mode) Cruise control. ACC. (Only AC in old Citigo) Relatively good full- and dipped beam. (Halogen though) Double floor in the luggage compartment. You can get a completely flat floor when folding the back seat. Cons: "Lane assist" instead of auto brake. Would much rather have had auto brake. Apps that work poorly. Skoda connect is available but works so so. "move and fun" does not yet exist but will come this week. Remains to be seen. Compact rear seat. But it's probably no worse than others on the market of the same size and no worse than our old Citigo. No interior lighting in the rear seat. No lighting in the boot. What I miss most: Electric heated steering wheel would have been nice to have.

Our goverment grant is £4800 so that add to the difference in price. But still it's cheaper here in Sweden since without the grant the price here right now is £20 000 and the same model with the same equipment in UK is around £22 000. But official price according to the price list is also £22 000 here in Sweden, so pricelevel is more or less equal. This one is actually replacing a 2014 Citigo we currently have and if we would have replaced that with a new petrol version (UP! Tsi) that would have been something like £10 400, so 50% price increase for the electrical version is reasonable I think. The closest competitor here in Sweden is around £24 000 with the goverment grant. Shure you'll get a bigger car with more range for the money and perhaps even more value for money, but the simple fact that so much cheaper than the nearest competitor will make it available for people that simply can't put up £24 000 for a car so I think that at least here in Sweden it will sell fairly well. Only time will tell though. I think they have different quotas for different countries so it might be so that deliverytimes in UK is much shorter than here in Sweden. Hope you don't have to wait longer than expected for your car. I actually think the Mii look a little bit better than the Citigo but due to a campaign Skoda have here in Sweden right now the Mii is £1500 more expensive than the Citigo with comparable equipment so that why the Skoda. Another thing i also like with the Mii is that it clearly states that it's an electric car with stickers on both sides and at the rear. No one will know that the the Citigo I drive is electric. Good luck with your Mii electric.

Just ordered mine today. A candy white with Style trim, which here in Sweden is equivalent to UK:s SEL trim with all possible options. The only option available here in Sweden is metallic colour. Total cost incl. government grant is approximately £15200 (190000 SEK). Pricing is strange though. For instance, here in Sweden all solid coatings are without additional charge, including the ones with black roof. In UK there is an additional charge of £540 for solid coatings, except for red, even if you choose the SEL trim. And if you want black roof there are an additional £300 for that. I chose candy white because it was manufactured last week, so I will have it in mid February. If I had chosen the colour I really wanted, yellow with black roof, I probably had to wait until well into summer before delivery. And, by the way, I do this solely for environmental reasons, not to save money. My first electric car so it´s gonna be really interesting this .....

Well, Kate Bush (I'm also a fan of hers) is not the first to sing about Yetis. Take a look at this Swedish band called KENT that made a song called Max 500 (wery good song in my opinion) a couple of years ago were they mention "runs a Yeti track" (english translation) about 54 seconds into the song. Take a look here /Stephan

Thanks for the answers guys! Great Yeti, thanks for the link to the thread about your own experience. It seems very similar to mine. The only difference is that in my case the surging and tick over is very consistent. I can be dead sure that if I have had my car parked all day at the office and the outside temperature is between 15 and 20 degrees centigrade outside, it will behave like this when starting. This morning when it was only 13 degrees, the engine ran normally from start. On the other hand it might have been consistent also in your case but the right conditions only appeared twice so you couldn’t see any pattern. Since my Yeti also has the DSG there is a good chance that the software upgrade you had also applies to my car even though mine is a MY 2010. I probably have try to contact Skoda Cz directly to be able to get a straight answer since the tech’s here at the local skoda dealerships are completely incompetent, except when it comes to lying to the customer and finding bad excuses. I’ll update this thread when I manage to find some more information. /Stephan

Hi everyone. I have been searching the Briskoda forums to see if someone has faced the same “phenomena†as I have with my Skoda Yeti 1.2 TSi, but haven’t found any with the same or similar problems. “Problem†description: Normally when I cold- or warm start my car, the motor momentarily revs up to approx 2000 rpm for a second or two and the quickly settles at around 800 rpm. This behaviour is consistent regardless of outside temperature. Almost. So even with temperatures as low as -20 degrees centigrade the behaviour is the same as described above. The exception is that with an outside temperature (engine temperature) of +15-20 degrees centigrade the behaviour changes. Then, for some reason, the rpm settles on 1200 rpm instead and on top of this the engine runs badly, somewhat like it’s only running on 3 cylinders. And standing outside the car it sounds really bad. Warmer than that, the engine behaves normally. This goes on for almost one minute and then the rpm drops to the normal 800 rpm idling. This behaviour is also consistent within this temperature span and from time to time. I think that it’s actually the motor temperature and not the ambient temperature that triggers this behaviour since it has occurred also in colder ambient temperatures when the car has been parked long enough for the engine to cool down but not reaching ambient temperature, or when running the car for a very short time, then stopping the car and then starting it again after a short while. What has made me concerned about it is that when I check the Maxidot for fuel consumption. The normal consumption is approx. 1.2 l/h with cold, just started engine, when idling, and 0.6 - 0.8 l/h with fully warm engine. But when this “mode†kicks in, the Maxidot indicates a fuel consumption of 3.5 l/h! That’s almost three times as much as compare to a “normal†cold start idling. What happens with all that extra petrol that is injected in to the cylinders (if the Maxidot readout is correct, that is)? And clearly, all that petrol can’t be needed to keep the revs at 1200 rpm instead of 800, can it? From what I have heard excessive amounts of un-burnt fuel can damage the catalytic converter. I have been in contact with the authorized dealer for Skoda here in Gothenburg and got one stupid explanation after another for this behaviour. First explanation was that the engine behaved in this way to warm up quicker. When I wasn’t satisfied with that they tried “the engine must burn away residue fuel in the system and is then behaving in this wayâ€. Then I gave up trying to get anything sensible out of them. So, is this a normal behaviour of the 1.2 TSi or not? If so, whats the purpose? If not, what could be wrong? BR Stephan

I have received an answer from Skoda Sweden regarding the improved sound insulation of the Yeti and the Superb. Here is the English translation of that. "Hi, Thanks for your email dated 2011-02-10. The Skoda Superb and Skoda Yeti has indeed been improved regarding the interior acoustic characteristics, this due to the continuous development of the car. This improvement is valid from January 2011 for the Superb and February 2011 for the Yeti and can´t be applied to existing cars. These improvements are not described in detail by the manufacturer in Czech Republic as this is an action that falls within the framework of continuous development of car models. Skoda had obviously developed a retrofit kit for sound insulation if it had had a positive effect on interior noise of existing cars. As far as we understand it's cars for the Nordic / Scandinavian that will get this improvement first and other markets will follow as soon as possible. Yours sincerely Sami Skoda Sweden Customer Service" /Stephan

Yet(i) another reason for choosing the DSG instead of the manual. I have plenty of room between the footrest and the breaking pedal to stretch my leg. Of course, I have the left hand drive version, might be different on a right hand drive version. Sorry, no answer to your question though regarding the removal of the foot rest, but of course it's possible, one way or the other.... Good luck. /Stephan

Thanks TP. Could it be only for the Swedish (Scandinavian) market since we are driving around all winter with noisy winter tyres? (often spiked, and yes, winter tyres are mandatory here in Sweden winterime). Would you also see that in the parts book, even if it's only for a few markets? The strange thing is that on the Skoda Club of Sweden´s forum they are discussing it as if it's a shure thing. I´ll check with the Skoda Sweden if they can confirm it. /Stephan

There is information on a Swedish Skoda forum that states that the sound insulation has been improved on the Yeti starting from first weeks production this year. The information claims that it will be improved even further from this week on. The information comes from several dealers here. Is it true? Does anyone here knows anything more about this? (The Plumber?). /Stephan