VRS_Barry

..... to the dealers :( To have a really annoying exhaust rattle fixed :'( Gonna leave it there all week while on holiday.

How about one of these - protect the interior and exterior from doggy related damage! Ultimate Car/Dog Solution

Well I don't know how it will affect vag group cars but on my mates citroen when it runs out it brings on the check engine light.

Lol I have a friend who has a citroen C5 that uses this stuff - it costs an absolute fortune to replenish ( a refill of the small tank under the back seat costs over £200 and is supposed to last 40k miles IIRC however his car needs replenished at every service and if it's not done the car responds with a whole plethora of bells whistles and warning lights - not to mention a limp mode! ) he says if it wasn't a company car he'd have binned it ages ago. In essence all it is is a refined urine solution I jokingly tell him just to pull over and take a **** in the tank

For what its worth I have only nothing but praise for the 1.2TSI unit. I have it in my yeti and find it to be extremely refined very flexible and very economical. (Just returned from a fully laden family holiday and averaged 44.1 mpg over 900 mixed miles including a lot of stop start and hilly country b road driving - very impressed) My decision to choose the 1.2TSI was down to the fact that I wanted economy but having owned BMW and Merc diesels in the past which were very good and very very refined I simply couldn't live with the noise levels of the VAG derv units. While the new CR units are more refined than the older PD units - they are not a patch on some of their competitors. I also wasn't impressed with VAG's statements regarding DPF and regeneration. I want to know that I can drive my car how and when I like and not have to ensure I drive at 50mph for 40 miles to regenerate the DPF. I do mixed driving around town and motorway/A roads. While I was waiting on my Yeti to be delivered my local dealer had given me a new 1.6TDI Octavia as a loan vehicle after 4 days of general driving around the car decided to do a regeneration cycle during a drive to Perth - unbeknown to me! Honestly I thought the thing was going to go on fire! I actually stopped the car and got out to try and identify where the smell (like burning tyres) was coming from. Phoned the dealer and they advised this was the regeneration cycle taking place and all would be fine after a longish drive. So between the incident with the octavia CR diesel and a mountain of problems I had with an early A3 170TDI PD DPF which used to just cut out all the time and in the end had ££££'s of warranty work done to it and never really got any better, I reckon I made the right choice with the 1.2 TSI and it would take a LOT of convincing to get me behind the wheel of another VAG diesel. Just my 2p worth! But go try a 1.2TSI it's a sweet little engine and punches well above its weight. Although I suspect nobody will have a demo roomster or fab yet but even blag a shot in a yeti or polo just to see what you thing. Comparing it to the old 8v 1.4 which routes right back to polos and golfs from the 70's and 80's there is absolutely no comparison!

lol maybe..... would need to be worth my while to drive to nottingham tho!

I was just surfing around various VAG related sights today and noticed that MTM have added the 1.2TSI Yeti to their remap list. Pretty expensive though @ 1200 euros!...... however they are claiming 140hp and 220Nm of torque! Wonder when some of the british based tuners will start to offer remaps on the 1.2? As far as I have seen the only companies that are doing the 1.2 are Abt and MTM. See linky here.

Lol at least you can get a touch up paint for your Aqua Blue Yeti - I've got a couple of chips on my Muscavado and after trying a couple of local dealers there is no listed paint whatsoever (touch up or aerosol) grrrr!

Haven't posted on here since parting with my fabia VRS however have been keeping up to date with the Yeti forum over the last few weeks as I'm waiting on our monster arriving on 1st march. Anyway thought the yeti owners might find this quite funny!!! Sniff Petrol February Made me chuckle lol!

yep they are the correct stud pattern etc but you may also need to purchase one of these ....

Or you could go for a trucker style roof mounted cord!! PAAAAAAARP!

Torque steer ain't really an issue it's when you accelerate hard out a roundabout or a bend you need to be careful!!!!

27 and on my 3rd estate (1 S4 and 2 RS4's) best moment to date was ****ing all over some guy in a 355 who looked at me like I was stuck to the bottom of his shoe.

Wife has one and it is a very capable wee motor. They respond pretty well to a remap too!! Hers sounds like a mini subaru quite pleasant tbh!!

Totally transforms the car - it's the torque wow!!!

Depends on the car - it was a must on my fabia as with the hybrid turbo and running quite high boost I was getting crazy intake temps - more than halved with the addition of a FMIC.

Never had a problem keeping up with or shaking of scoobies in my furby.

Alot of the dealers use a company called transcal to trim the cars with leather - they did mine with silver/black leather/alcantara - looks great too!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Fantastic Looks sweet!

A car can pass an mot if it looks like a cat is present - so if your mate was to gut all the internals from your cat and the emissions were low enough it would pass but only because it "looks" like a cat is there. Testers are not allow to dismantle stuff on the test and therefore cannot tell whats inside your cat.

I'd check your spare wheel well as it is very common for them not to be fitted during the cars pdi and they are left lying in the boot!

My first cat was the metal one the second one is a motorsport one that milltek knocked up for me it was a couple of hundred quid dearer than the metal one which didn't agree with the pressure through the system.

Bear in mind there are two milltek cats available and they do differ substantially in price. Firstly I had the milltek sports cat which lasted about 1000 miles before the insides of it shot out my tailpipes at mach2. I now have a special milltek race spec cat which they are talking about puutting into general production. Reckon the sports cat would be okay on a standard or just remapped car.

Mine runs a garrett hybrid from turbo dynamics and I'm pretty sure thats what ross runs too and to be honest I'm well chuffed.