Hi - looking to replace Tiguan Sport- which has been good apart from appalling ride on silly 18" wheels and rock hard suspension. Do not really like 4 x4s but do need one (location- NY Moors - and interests- fishing shooting motor sport etc) . Looked at Kia Sportage- actually very nice but far too big. Rav 4 - truck like. Qashqai- ok but underwhelming. Oh and Kuga but good though car is the local Ford dealer is so appalling I cannot risk it. So - test drove a Yeti 110 TDI and loved it- much better ride than VW , feels so much lighter and love the styling - and wacky name...

So my spec isTDI 140 in SE trim; heated front seats, spare wheel and off road button. Amazonian green.Sounds good to me- anybody think I am missing something I will regret later?

Hi - looking to replace Tiguan Sport- which has been good apart from appalling ride on silly 18" wheels and rock hard suspension. Do not really like 4 x4s but do need one (location- NY Moors - and interests- fishing shooting motor sport etc) . Looked at Kia Sportage- actually very nice but far too big. Rav 4 - truck like. Qashqai- ok but underwhelming. Oh and Kuga but good though car is the local Ford dealer is so appalling I cannot risk it. So - test drove a Yeti 110 TDI and loved it- much better ride than VW , feels so much lighter and love the styling - and wacky name...

So my spec isTDI 140 in SE trim; heated front seats, spare wheel and off road button. Amazonian green.Sounds good to me- anybody think I am missing something I will regret later?

Heated windscreen, rough road package if you out and about.

Hi - looking to replace Tiguan Sport- which has been good apart from appalling ride on silly 18" wheels and rock hard suspension. Do not really like 4 x4s but do need one (location- NY Moors - and interests- fishing shooting motor sport etc) . Looked at Kia Sportage- actually very nice but far too big. Rav 4 - truck like. Qashqai- ok but underwhelming. Oh and Kuga but good though car is the local Ford dealer is so appalling I cannot risk it. So - test drove a Yeti 110 TDI and loved it- much better ride than VW , feels so much lighter and love the styling - and wacky name...

So my spec isTDI 140 in SE trim; heated front seats, spare wheel and off road button. Amazonian green.Sounds good to me- anybody think I am missing something I will regret later?

poss rough road pack or mud flaps for the shooting and fishing days

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Edited 26 October, 201015 yr by wakev

If you're going off road quite a bit then you might want to add the Rough Road package.

Obviously Xenons are nice and bluetooth is handy, but then you start getting close to the price of an Elegance.

And once you decide to go for an Elegance, you'll then be thinking whether you should go for the full fat 170 TDi !

It's a slippery slope once you start hitting the options list.

Don't know about you, but every time I've bought a new car I've regretted later not having chosen more of the options in the first place. So this time, I've ordered the 4x4 170hp Elegance with heated screen, TPM, rough road package, variable boot floor, mudflaps bootliner and mats, electric seat/mirrors. Only the upgraded sound system and silver roof rails missing (oh, and a proper spare) but don't really need those!

I don't do much fishing these days and not a lot of shooting either, but I do quite a lot of motorsport work (rallies) and the foil part of the rough road pack I'd say is a must (I don't have it ... yet).

It's very much worth getting the rough road pack and mudflaps as well. (I'm still waiting on my dealer coming up with my mud flaps, although to be honest I haven't hassled them enough lately!)

I've made a list of thing to think about before you order here:

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/160051-if-you-are-about-to-order-a-yeti-things-to-think-about/

And don't forget you can change anything to your car after ordering up to 4 weeks before it gets built.

I was offered an 'Adventure pack' ! silly name apart it discounts Mud flaps, boot liner and rubber floor mats into a £140 package. Well worth it as it seems a lot of dealers discount the pack still further. Due to pick up my TD140 Yeti Friday morning and as it will be getting 'dirty' thought this was a good deal.

http://www.motorline.co.uk/skoda/parts/view/233/Yeti-Accessories-Packs

I have a similar spec to you, without the heated seats - doh what a mistake that was now it is winter. I don't miss anything and think the car is pretty well specced up at SE level, I just added the off road button which you have also gone for. Good shout from a number of people about the rough road pack, if you go off road which I don't.

You have to buy it separately after the car comes but I bought the Yeti boot liner from the dealer for £25 and that is definitely worth it. It fits perfectly, is well made and is a good price. I know this is an after market item but I thought it was worth giving it a shout.

Hi,

if you look at my signature strip at the bottom, then that's the spec I would recommend for a rural operated SE 4x4 and having been up on the moors a few times, dare I mention winter tyres

edit Plus heated screen now it's available

Regards,

TP

Edited 27 October, 201015 yr by The Plumber

I was offered an 'Adventure pack' ! silly name apart it discounts Mud flaps, boot liner and rubber floor mats into a £140 package. Well worth it as it seems a lot of dealers discount the pack still further. Due to pick up my TD140 Yeti Friday morning and as it will be getting 'dirty' thought this was a good deal.

http://www.motorline...cessories-Packs

Strangely, in Bulgaria the 'Adventure pack' consists of Maxidot, Cruise control, Rear Parking sensors, Alarm system, free Metallic paint... I opted for it, even it's not much of an "adventure"

I have a similar spec to you, without the heated seats - doh what a mistake that was now it is winter. I don't miss anything and think the car is pretty well specced up at SE level, I just added the off road button which you have also gone for. Good shout from a number of people about the rough road pack, if you go off road which I don't.

You have to buy it separately after the car comes but I bought the Yeti boot liner from the dealer for £25 and that is definitely worth it. It fits perfectly, is well made and is a good price. I know this is an after market item but I thought it was worth giving it a shout.

Heated seats are always the first option I tick... life is too short to have a cold butt on a winter's morning!

Strangely the first time I came across heated seats was in the wife's first fortwo. It had a full leather interior and two heat settings, 'volcanic' or the 'Kellogs pop tart' (unbearable). Nevertheless I loved it, my own Alfa was far more gentle in its one setting but really looking forward to the Yeti bum warmers. Quite often I don't even bother with the heater at all in the current smart, finding that the seat heating meets my needs. A 'must have' for me now I am afraid. Must be getting old :S

Hi - looking to replace Tiguan Sport- which has been good apart from appalling ride on silly 18" wheels and rock hard suspension. Do not really like 4 x4s but do need one (location- NY Moors - and interests- fishing shooting motor sport etc) . Looked at Kia Sportage- actually very nice but far too big. Rav 4 - truck like. Qashqai- ok but underwhelming. Oh and Kuga but good though car is the local Ford dealer is so appalling I cannot risk it. So - test drove a Yeti 110 TDI and loved it- much better ride than VW , feels so much lighter and love the styling - and wacky name...

So my spec isTDI 140 in SE trim; heated front seats, spare wheel and off road button. Amazonian green.Sounds good to me- anybody think I am missing something I will regret later?

Interesting that you've chosen to swap a Tiguan for a Yeti... don't let the VAG higher ups know or else they'll be shutting Skoda down!

Interesting that you've chosen to swap a Tiguan for a Yeti... don't let the VAG higher ups know or else they'll be shutting Skoda down!

Oh that made me laugh. I'll keep quiet about trading my Audi in on a Skoda too then!

Strangely the first time I came across heated seats was in the wife's first fortwo. It had a full leather interior and two heat settings, 'volcanic' or the 'Kellogs pop tart' (unbearable). Nevertheless I loved it, my own Alfa was far more gentle in its one setting but really looking forward to the Yeti bum warmers. Quite often I don't even bother with the heater at all in the current smart, finding that the seat heating meets my needs. A 'must have' for me now I am afraid. Must be getting old :S

Yeah, creature comforts seem to gain importance with age eh?

I notice you have the spare wheel in the spec. Folk have mentioned the bootliner - does it work with the spare? - because if it does I too will get one. The recent thread about lights made me glad I did get an Elegance in the end (it was what was available..) - so Xenons would certainly be worth thinking about. Someone told me, before I had mine, that I would never regret it, and everyone elses lights look like candles by comparison. And he was right on both counts. I have the mudflaps - they are neat, definately provide better protection (and the film is good too, but can be fitted later I believe) and they do not impact clearance etc. The only other thing - rain sensors have never impressed me much, but I would hate to be without the rear dimming mirror - unfortunately they come as a package.

Roger

The only other thing - rain sensors have never impressed me much, but I would hate to be without the rear dimming mirror - unfortunately they come as a package.

They do come as a package but you can always choose not to leave the wiper stalk in the Auto setting. The settings above this are dead normal non-auto wipers.

They do come as a package but you can always choose not to leave the wiper stalk in the Auto setting. The settings above this are dead normal non-auto wipers.

That's true - but then you lose the excellent variable intermittant wipe that VAG vehicles have, instead of the rain sensor. That's part of my my complaint, really.

Roger

That's true - but then you lose the excellent variable intermittant wipe that VAG vehicles have, instead of the rain sensor. That's part of my my complaint, really.

Roger

Ah. So the rain sensitivity toggle on top does not revert to the intermittent control when in the normal wiper modes? I had rain sensing wipers on my V5 Golf but always kept them in the Auto position and just used this toggle to (very rarely) adjust them if they were not doing things as they should. I never tried it in the normal intermittent position to see if the toggle also adjusted that...

Ah. So the rain sensitivity toggle on top does not revert to the intermittent control when in the normal wiper modes? I had rain sensing wipers on my V5 Golf but always kept them in the Auto position and just used this toggle to (very rarely) adjust them if they were not doing things as they should. I never tried it in the normal intermittent position to see if the toggle also adjusted that...

No it doesn't - at least it didn't on my Golf. I dislike features that take control away from the driver, unless you can switch them off, and you don't lose anything by having them in the first place. The Auto lights are in that category, and are OK for that reason, IMO. But the intermittant wipe was about as is good as it could be, and losing it for the wretched sensor - which wipes unexpectedly when you dont want it to and doesnt when you want it to, and causes you to be always fiddling with the sensitivity - was always a major gripe for me (all just my own views, of course..)

Roger

I am assuming, of course, that the Yeti works the same as my V5 Golf - if you have the sensor you don't HAVE a normal intermittent wipe position...

Roger

EDIT - just went out and tried it - that is the case, on mine at any rate!

Edited 27 October, 201015 yr by roguebrit

I am assuming, of course, that the Yeti works the same as my V5 Golf - if you have the sensor you don't HAVE a normal intermittent wipe position...

Roger

EDIT - just went out and tried it - that is the case, on mine at any rate!

Grrr. I think you are correct. Reading page 63 of the manual it mentions intermittent wipers on cars without a sensor AND Auto wipers to BOTH be on setting 1. Thus on a car with a rain sensor the next setting above Auto is not intermittent but slow continuous wiping. I see your predicament now.

Grrr. I think you are correct. Reading page 63 of the manual it mentions intermittent wipers on cars without a sensor AND Auto wipers to BOTH be on setting 1. Thus on a car with a rain sensor the next setting above Auto is not intermittent but slow continuous wiping. I see your predicament now.

That's it - it's a small thing, perhaps, but irritating nonetheless. The issue, really, is in combining features together. You can't have the dimming mirror independently..

The same goes, for me, with the rear wiper wiping the back window every so often when the front wipers are working. I don't ask it to, and if I wanted it to, I would ask it! The Golf didn't do that, actually, but I see I am stuck with it on the Yeti. Never mind, I still love it - these are just freckles on its otherwise lovely face. Nothings perfect. Sigh

Roger

(PS Sincere apologies for hijacking the thread - I'll shut up about it now)

Edited 27 October, 201015 yr by roguebrit

That's it - it's a small thing, perhaps, but irritating nonetheless. The issue, really, is in combining features together. You can't have the dimming mirror independently..

The same goes, for me, with the rear wiper wiping the back window every so often when the front wipers are working. I don't ask it to, and if I wanted it to, I would ask it! The Golf didn't do that, actually, but I see I am stuck with it on the Yeti. Never mind, I still love it - these are just freckles on its otherwise lovely face. Nothings perfect. Sigh

Roger

(PS Sincere apologies for hijacking the thread - I'll shut up about it now)

Just noticed what you said about the automatic rear wiper. It can be turned off on Maxidot, one of the first things we did, as it was driving us mad on a long trip where the rain was driving towards the front and the rear screen was often dry!