Funnily enough the last time I had to use a recovery company I was in my old Skoda!!

Glad you can see the funny side - that made me chuckle !

how come the S model you have has Colour Coded mirrors and door handles?

really like the look of it btw - nice colour. what colour is the interior???

Various parts, including massive corrosion on wish bones, control arms, leaking shocks, snapped springs... bloody terrible cars!

Rover 25's on slits, essentially!

Thanks again JonA,

re the ESP/ABS there has been a lot of discussion and reported failures on the Octavia II forum.

see: My link

If I am right then regard RBS I will be missing this function on my Monster, as she has light assist but not rain sensor; ah well.

Intended to ask this morning as to how your getting on with the unwanted orchestra in the car; still have some noises myself but not often enough to take to the dealer again, as I just know she will be as quite as a mouse while there. Otherwise couldn't be better.

Regards,

TP

Hello!

I was aware of the thread where the brake system failures, but I haven't really read it. I have worked with VAG cars for a dealer since 1992, first VW, then Audi and now Skoda, and the only ABS units I have changed several of are Bosch units on Audi A6 cars from around 2001 because they blocked all communication between brakes, instruments etc.. I have changed some ABS units on Fabias as well, but that was because of water ingress into the ECU. I guess it doesn't matter what supplier Skoda buys the components from.. All suppliers deliver bad products from time to time, and most of the bad parts are probably caused by bean counters at the car factories telling suppliers that they should produce the said part for a (to low) sum of money.. Parts that last "forever" can be made, but they would be to expensive for the car factory.. That is how I see it. We are very lucky here in Norway, with a very good "consumers law". Things (for instance electrical parts on a car) that is supposed to last for more that 5 years (like an ABS unit), is covered by the seller/dealer and or importer if the buyer makes a claim, and the seller agrees that the part should have lasted longer than for example 4 years. The law is valid 5 years from the time of purchase.

Enough brakes I love my Yeti more the more I drive it. I still have the "free rhythm section of a band" in various parts of the car.. :wonder: I am the one who will have to try to remove the unwanted creaks and rattles, so I will deal with it later. It's a "cosmetic" problem anyway, and can be camouflaged by using the radio. I think I will have to take out the headliner to cure some of the creaks, and I won't do that until i have something like this My link to help me with..

We have had some snow here, and the Yeti handles really nice in the snow You can really feel the systems working the way they should when going up a (kids) downhill skiing slope not yet prepared for skiing, but covered with snow

I was not aware of that you could have light assist without the "rain/light" sensor? The sensor consists of both a rain and a light sensor, so if your car has the sensor in front of the inside rear view mirror "sticked" to the windscreen it probably has got RBS as well :yes:

I was thinking of taking my car for a short spin now and see if I could take a picture for the "Yeti in the SNOW" thread

Best regards

Jon A

how come the S model you have has Colour Coded mirrors and door handles?

really like the look of it btw - nice colour. what colour is the interior???

Interior is grey (only option) - nice grey though, haven't done any interior pics yet but will do before too long.

Colour coded was a nice surprise, finebone reports the same in your 'E and S spec' thread. And yes, I'm very happy with the way the green looks - it also seems to balance well with the various black and silver bits - particularly the shiny black bits around the windows.

A friend's MOT place used to do all the MOT's for 3-year-old Land Rover's from the local dealership... the vast majority of FreeLanders failed on a major suspension component. At three years old!

I took three Freelanders (first generation) in as part exchanges in my car selling days. Each of them had significant faults and the owners couldn't put up with them any more. It is a shame because when they first came out I really liked them but after driving one of the part exchanges for a weekend felt like I was driving a car that was only three quarters developed. I also knew a guy who worked in Africa who told me that whenever they bought a new Defender it had to go through a workshop first to get rid of all of the build problems that would have rendered it useless in the wilderness. No wonder that you mostly see Toyota Landcruisers driven in the most remote places.

Still, the latest version of the Freelander is supposed to be a cracking car by all accounts and the latest Discovery has been doing very well in the more recent reliability and customer satisfaction surveys. Good news for a great British manufacturer.

Various parts, including massive corrosion on wish bones, control arms, leaking shocks, snapped springs... bloody terrible cars!

Rover 25's on slits, essentially!

Babs,

you must obviously be Preston's Freelander expert, or you've been sniffing the fumes from your Golf exhaust pipe, because I have now spoken to 2 MOT testers, one not very far from you, and one here, and both say that they see very few faults with the front suspension and neither of them have EVER seen a broken spring. In fact they both say that it is rare to fail a Freelander for suspension problems!! The mosy common fault is worn control arm bushes, but this is no worse than any other make, and a lot better than Ford or Vauxhall.

I don't know where you get the Rover 25 idea from, but as you are the expert I shall bow to your superior knowledge. When I'm next talking to Solihull I must remind them of that.

Oh and one of the MOT testers says he failed a 4 year old Golf today, blown exhaust!!

Shrub,

agreed the first ones that came out did have problems, especially with the VCU, but when the Td4 was introduced there was a drastic improvement.

No car, whatever make is ever perfect, but some people seem to be blinkered.

I am still interested in the Yeti, but still have concerns about the off road capability, especially hearing about some of the electonics and the fact that potentially they can't be turned off. Over the hristmas period, when not at work, I shall be talking to a more sensible dealer not too far away, to see what they say. I shall report back....(if I'm not banned for argueing with a "undercover mod")

Edited 16 December, 200916 yr by Llanigraham

We have had some snow here, and the Yeti handles really nice in the snow You can really feel the systems working the way they should when going up a (kids) downhill skiing slope not yet prepared for skiing, but covered with snow

I was not aware of that you could have light assist without the "rain/light" sensor? The sensor consists of both a rain and a light sensor, so if your car has the sensor in front of the inside rear view mirror "sticked" to the windscreen it probably has got RBS as well :yes:

I was thinking of taking my car for a short spin now and see if I could take a picture for the "Yeti in the SNOW" thread

Best regards

Jon A

Thanks again.

Glad to here your enjoying the Yeti, what wheels and tyres are you running out of interest? obviously much more severe weather with you than us.

Strange as it may seem I do only have the light sensors, the four rain diamonds appear 'blanked' off. UK spec SE (Ambition based) has the Light Assist option at £50 and the Auto Dimming Mirror with Rain Sensor at £175. Didn't bother with the latter option as I am not a fan of rain sensing wipers. Both of these are standard on the Elegance.

Best wishes,

TP

Thank you for bowing down, it's really appreciated. And I'm not on about Preston, I'm on about Newport.

Regardless... hateful machines!

Whoop-di-do! A 4 year-old-Golf failed. I don't care. Who does?

I would suggest you check your map, as Newport is a long way from me. (Shrops, Pembs and Gwent)

Anyway

Whatever!! :

giggle:

...what? You said I must be "Preston's Freelander expert". I said "I'm not on about Preston, I'm on about Newport". Meaning that the MOT garage I was referring to is based in Newport.

And I don't need to give a county, especially one that doesn't exist!

Hi guys,

best regards from Macedonia, (south of Europe) where i'm located.

I have ordered my snow monster with 1.2 tsi heart two days ago and can't wait to pass 6 weks to get it. So i'm pretty interested to hear your stories and experiences about your 1.2 ownership, especially about 1.2 engine performances in order of real fuel consumption, power , elasticity and behavior over full load.

Waiting on your posts!

Regards.

.

And I don't need to give a county, especially one that doesn't exist!

But which Newport?

Shropshire?

Pembrokeshire? (which does exist now as a amalgamous part of Dyfed)

Gwent?

Gwent isn't a county, and hasn't been for quite some time.

If you put "Newport" into Google, it's the first one that comes up. Hence, no need for the county. It's the one that's "accepted" as being just Newport.

ANYway... back to the Yeti talk please

Llanigraham

Think I've found your next motor if the Yeti aint right.

http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=19944

Braaaaaap!

Gwent isn't a county, and hasn't been for quite some time.

If you put "Newport" into Google, it's the first one that comes up. Hence, no need for the county. It's the one that's "accepted" as being just Newport.

ANYway... back to the Yeti talk please

Hi

This may be true but it is still a ''Preserved'' county.I live in Blaenau Gwent and No one puts that on letters etc.-----allways Gwent!

Call us old fashioned perhaps

Blaenau Gwent is a county in its self. Just like Newport is

Blaenau Gwent is a county in its self. Just like Newport is

You are correct, all i am saying is that most people still say Gwent, wether they live in Newport or Blaenau Gwent

Example---- http://www.skoda.co.uk/retailers/capitol_skoda/home.aspx

Yeah - they're wrong lol

All my mail was addressed "Newport, Newport" which made little sense but was at least accurate!

Llanigraham

Think I've found your next motor if the Yeti aint right.

http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=19944

Had seen the details of that, but they have lowered the suspension, like the old Sport, which immediately cause me a problem!. Should go well though!!

Babs,

I can't be bothered any more, as you have nothing sensible what-so-ever to add to my conversations with more knowledgeable people about the off-road capabilities of either the Yeti or Freelander.

I really couldn't give a funk

Edited 19 December, 200916 yr by Babs
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Looks a great little vehicle this, just read the TG report on the 2.0 TDI which is a bit exensive. Interested to hear your feedback on the 1.2. I would have thought that the engine would struggle turbo or not.

picked up my 1.2 tsi last friday. Just drove 150 km, too soon to make a usefull review, but this car it seems to me really good. The engine it's a little jewel, powerfull as a 1.8 turbo diesel and really noiseless. I will post some picture as soon as possible.

Just some further thoughts on the small engine gearbox combination:

On a flat moderately twisty road, with just the driver on board, it's perfectly easy to shift all the way through to 6th without ever going above 1500 rpm and it's a very smooth (and fuel efficient) way of making progress.

However, get some passengers on board, make the road a bit more hilly and decide you want to press on a bit and you look at just under 2500 before shifting.

As has been noted, there is a slight dip or lag just below 2000 - not an issue if you are accelerating through it, you just notice an extra shove there. But shifting up at just below 2500, the revs tend to drop to just below 2000 during the shift (they do for me anyway, a better technique would probably avoid this) and as such I successively hit this low point on each gear change.

So, not the ideal way of driving this combination - easily avoided by shifting earlier or later, but an example of where a particular driving style may not get on well with this engine.