MCAMRA

I live in France and have a Yeti…and…...it does not have a Crit Air sticker. Do you need one ?

The brakes on our Yeti lasted 12 years from when the car was bought from new. They got changed for the first time this year since 2011. And to be fair when they were replaced, they still had few thousand miles left. I expect the new brakes (original parts) will last the same time. 10 years probably. I don’t understand why people are changing their brake components so often.

We bought our Yeti in 2011. It has done lets say 120k miles. We replaced the discs and pads for the very first time this year since buying the car 12 years ago. With Skoda bits BTW. It did not cost much to be fair. Why are you replacing brake components so often on your car ?

The tyre pressure warning light on my transporter van kept coming on during long journeys. I would stop, check the pressures and they would be fine. Press reset. Get to my destination and check again. And they would be fine. This happened a good five times in a row. One day I cleaned the van (because it was dirty…not because of the warning light problem) and the wheels with a karcher. Since then, the tyre warning light has not come on. Coincidence ? I have no idea. But it is back to normal. A better one. Last spring the emissions warning light came on the Yeti. The manual said go straight to a Skoda garage and pay money. So we did. They tested the car and it was fine. In fact the light went out. But recommended paying a lot of money to clean something. Which we declined. Coincidentally, whilst waiting for the car, another person came into the garage saying that their emissions light was on. I think it was a tiguan. I suspect a lot of people came in that day with the same problem. I realised that we were on red alert that day for pollution and that must be interfering with the sensor. Reading the atmosphere rather than the car ? Not sure VAG would agree. A couple of days later, the emissions warning light came back on again. It went off when the pollution passed. External factors can influence sensors. Anyway, I hope the op sorts out his problem. It is the type of thing that would drive me mad.

If it is a wheel speed sensor or somthing related…????……which sounds likely….. Could you just not clean with a karcher (gently) the wheel assembly under the car and see what happens. It might simply be a bit or dirt, mud, gravel that has got stuck in the wrong place giving the sensor/electrics a headache. Disclaimer….I am not a mechanic. But that is what I would do.

I have considered replacing my Yeti. 11 year old Mk 1….140 TDI 4x4 bought from new. The thing is, the Yeti MK1 is still today the best looking and most practical car in its class. I really do think that. In fact it looks better today than when it came out. Mine has war scares so I think I will just invest in some cosmetics and make it brand new again. There is nothing on the market that I would replace it with. The MK1 Yeti is a little classic so I would think hard before replacing it. Just my 5 pence worth.