If you are about to order a Yeti - things to think about

[steve49]

Hi Looks like you have managed to add to your order by the way of your answer, been nice to have an electrical heated windscreen but I can live without one.

[lee67]

nope nothing added..told today its gonna be august delivery... :(

[steve49]

Hi I dont know what your original order was regarding extras, but good luck with your August delivery

[lee67]

no extras at all...a bog standard 1.2 s model in steel grey...oh wait nope..platin grey now...but wait new brochure states gone back to steel grey lol..im lost too :p

[bohmer]

Oops sorry matey didnt see another post asking about it. The answer is I havent a clue how much !! - Just ordered it and waited for the price to be sorted later, sorry !

Re. the cost of the heated windscreen, I believe it is £200 in the new brochure which you can download from the Skoda site. Jessica

[ElviraKate]

Have just noticed thing about no driver's memory seat option... Is that still true? That would be awful as there is about 10 inches height difference between me and my husband..:(

[900000]

Have just noticed thing about no driver's memory seat option... Is that still true? That would be awful as there is about 10 inches height difference between me and my husband..

Still true I'm afraid. You can order this seat in right hand drive Ireland but not in the UK. How someone can justify making all those bits to fit a right hand drive seat to ONLY supply the limited number of Yetis that will get the seat in ONE country (Ireland) is beyond me.

[kenfowler3966]

Still true I'm afraid. You can order this seat in right hand drive Ireland but not in the UK. How someone can justify making all those bits to fit a right hand drive seat to ONLY supply the limited number of Yetis that will get the seat in ONE country (Ireland) is beyond me.

Don't both seats get electric controls on left hand drive cars, hence no extra cost for right hand drive developmet???

[900000]

Don't both seats get electric controls on left hand drive cars, hence no extra cost for right hand drive developmet???

Nope in LHD countries it is still just a driver's side seat only option. You can't get it for both seats in one car.

[Agerbundsen]

Still true I'm afraid. You can order this seat in right hand drive Ireland but not in the UK. How someone can justify making all those bits to fit a right hand drive seat to ONLY supply the limited number of Yetis that will get the seat in ONE country (Ireland) is beyond me.

Don't forget there are a few other countries where you drive on the left. Some of them are rather large potential Yeti markets, such as Australia and India.

[900000]

Don't forget there are a few other countries where you drive on the left. Some of them are rather large potential Yeti markets, such as Australia and India.

I know, I know... And the Yeti will soon go on sale in India. Not sure about Australia - it does not show on the Australian or Indian websites yet. So for now they make these seats for the few souls in Ireland that tick it as an option.

[jeep]

The Pacific Blue samples shown in the links seem way off colour, much more of a dark Navy Blue.

Dealers now have proper sprayed samples of colours, they didn't in April when I ordered my car. They also only had one brochure at that time, that they wouldn't give away :-)

Edited 19 August, 2010 by jeep

[rockhopper]

I have just ordered my Yeti from James at Allams.

Top bloke

I have ordered:

CR140 4x4 DSG Elegance in Cappuccino beige with black onyx leather

park assist

heated screen

rough road package

tyre pressure monitor

spare wheel

I'll fit my columbus from my Octavia when it arrives.

Looking at December delivery.

[Allams Skoda]

I have just ordered my Yeti from James at Allams.

Top bloke

I have ordered:

CR140 4x4 DSG Elegance in Cappuccino beige with black onyx leather

park assist

heated screen

rough road package

tyre pressure monitor

spare wheel

I'll fit my columbus from my Octavia when it arrives.

Looking at December delivery.

Interior changed to Gobi!

[rockhopper]

Interior changed to Gobi!

Thanks James

You must be one of the most helpful dealers around.

Mike

[seboni121]

yeti dropping the sunroof major problems with the motors in the blind and roof!

[Llanigraham]

yeti dropping the sunroof major problems with the motors in the blind and roof!

Do you have any more details of this?

References for example?

[redandwhitepauly]

yeti dropping the sunroof major problems with the motors in the blind and roof!

Well mine is being built with sunroof week after next and its the first ive ever heard of this problem considering how many folk on here have a sunroof nobody has had motor complaints as far as I know, just the odd leaker ?

Looking forward to mine anyways

[Yeti_Man]

yeti dropping the sunroof major problems with the motors in the blind and roof!

Can you confirm this info is accurate and the source as our local (knowledgeable) dealer says that's horse poo

Supply issues have been down to supply and demand not issues with the motor. The unit is the same as fitted to the Tiguan and Cayanne so I think we'd have heard if their were longer term issues with the motors?

[Trevorminor]

yeti dropping the sunroof major problems with the motors in the blind and roof!

I too think it's to do with a shortage of glass from a supplier rather than anything to with a 'fault' in anything.

[redandwhitepauly]

I too think it's to do with a shortage of glass from a supplier rather than anything to with a 'fault' in anything.

Thats exactly what I was told by John Bower Head of After Sales UK, they just cant get the volume of glass they need.

[Allams Skoda]

yeti dropping the sunroof major problems with the motors in the blind and roof!

[CJJE]

Since the sunroof has now disappeared from the configurator again (and posters on the Superb II forum can't get it either) there seems to be no possibility of ordering a sunroof any more. Whether this is because of glass supply problems, motor problems, or marketing decisions to preserve them for VW/Audi cars with their higher profit margins is immaterial to would-be purchasers.

I have also been told by Skoda Europe HQ that they will not be offering a DAB tuner for 2 to 3 years - while VWs and Audis have them now!

Skoda seem to be being pushed down-market to me to prevent them competing so well against VW/Audi. Makes you wonder why they are also pushing for larger dealerships and larger sales targets if they aren't allowed to provide the goodies customers want!

Chris

[Llanigraham]

Chris,

We have had details in the past that the sunroof problem is a SUPPLY problem, and nothing else. It isn't just affecting VAG, but other makes as well.

DAB, so what!! See the thread about this. It might work in some (small) areas, but here in Mid Wales we have been told it is highly unlikely ever to work properly if at all.

[oldstan]

Seeing as no-one else has commented on your photo of, what you have interpreted as, a Yeti dropping, I will offer a comment myself if I may be allowed. If you transfer your photo in to one of the specialist close up (hyper-macro) facilities on the web, used by zoological specialists, you will see that whilst this specimen is not dissimilar to the faeces of the Yeti, it is, in fact, more akin to the motions of a Chupacabras. This creature is, like the Yeti, quite rare - frequenting the less well populated vicinities of Central and South America, having been reportedly seen in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Peru, Guatamala, Columbia... and Basingstoke.

You may observe that the texture of the example in your picture, Allams, is relatively open and fibrous...this is always a giveaway...the Yeti feculent disharge is, in the case of normal bowel movement, denser and more compact in composition and freshly deposited stools are almost invariably visited by Euoniticellus intermedius... a member of Aphodiinae family - Scarabaeidae....(but then you already knew that).

Clearly, Allams, you are a keen spotter of artefacts associated with Yeticrapologicalism and I trust this information will be of assistance when you are in the field and encounter similar examples in the future.

Edited 2 October, 2010 by oldstan