You have to set up each key individually, a his 6'4" key and a hers 5'4" key. Then when you open using your key it goes to your settings, not 'er indoors settings.

Mike

That's how it was set but it was keyless entry so it adjusted to the first person to open a door so if the wife opened the tailgate to load shopping and I was lagging behind carting the shopping as usual it adjusted for her.

Edited 22 November, 201015 yr by riocca

Snow chains, anyone????............

The point is - did it even exist in the first place. Or was it just sloppy English in the advertising? Anyway I'm sure your £500 was well spent on the electric seats etc.

I was under the impression that I had Blutooth on my Bolero radio from the advertising blurb - it was only later that I was told that, for an extra £300, I needed a new steering wheel and the bits that made BT work.

With all due respect, and I'm only saying what I feel, Terfyn, not having a go....the point..as you put it, isn't quite as you perceive it ie....did it even exist in the first place......All these people, and there are a few, sound to me like fairly sensible folk who are buying a motor for £20k, therefore might be assumed to be mainly rational and not entirely stupid, warrant, IMHO credit for working out whether it was some kind of a fairy tale, or a dream they were labouring under when they placed their order and handed over a monkey in good faith. I think they probably had slightly more than some sort of inkling that the option did exist in the form they expected it to take and the dealers were happy to offer it, albeit, now seemingly erroneously. And if you read all the accounts you'll see that a good percentage did actually want the blessed things - to negotiate narrow entrances or due to narrow parking spots, etc.

Your own experience of the Bluetooth issue surely exemplifies the value of discussion and had you read a thread which extensively probed your Bluetooth set up and discovered that you needed to order whatever it was, then you'd have been saved the inconvenience you experienced yourself , but you've posted on here that this thread has gone on too long and posters should get a life.

Well said, Oldstan. Surely posts have (at least) two functions? One is to seek advice and expertise, the other to be able to let off steam when something appears to be wrong - as is undoubtedly the case with the infamous non-folding mirrors. This will run its course in due time, but it's no bad thing to make our dissatisfaction clear to Skoda UK; no doubt the MD is very comfortably in Lord Young's 'never had it so good' set, but those of us who have forked out a lot of money for something which it turns out may not be quite what we expected are entitled to have just a little whinge, surely? I would never presume to tell anyone to 'get a life' - who knows what lives each of us leads?

"I would never presume to tell anyone to 'get a life' - who knows what lives each of us leads? "

Uncomfortably true words..........I was coincidentally, this very day, brought to tears and humbled whilst corresponding with someone whose life has had such desperately sad circumstances tossed in to the mix and yet that person continues to be a shining example of how to carry on and keep chipper and bring a smile to the faces of others in the face of heart rending misfortune.

Edited 22 November, 201015 yr by oldstan

Stan,

I'm defending nobody, neither forum members nor SUK. What I am saying is that I've looked at the brochure and the website, and as far as I read it the £500 is for the memory seats ONLY. The bit about the mirrors could possibly be construed as misleading, but I doubt whether a Trading Standards bod would bother to look at it.

Now if my taking of the description is correct and anyone can PROVE they have told they will get electric folding mirrors then perhaps there is a case to answer, and that receipt may be the proof required. However could it be made to stick legally?

The length and vociferousness of a thread proves nothing, unless there are many owners complaining about the same problem, and to be honest this thread has very few people complaining. As George says......"snowchains".

The one thing this thread, and the one about auto boot opening, says to me is that we are expecting our cars to do everything for us now, and are making us into lazy people. Look at all the auto things you can now order:

auto lights

auto wipers

auto dipping mirrors

auto seat adjustment

auto parking

Are we designing everything out of the car that needs any though from the driver?

Snow chains, anyone????............

Brilliant George :rofl:

made my day even though really this for some is a serious and concerning subject, particularly as the 'cowboys' at MK14 inferred to a false specification at additional cost :(

TP

Irrespective of whether those of us convinced we've been 'misled' by SUK eventually suceed in getting what we're convinced we've paid for - some action has aleady resulted, in that today the website configurator has been amended.

The issue of the electric seats/folding mirrors will hopefully persuade SUK to get its lamentable marketing act together and correct the many website and brochure errors.

An improvement in SUK's customer information/customer service is long overdue - and it puts their loyal dealers under unreasonable pressure as well as frustrating prospective owners.

My 2p

Edited 22 November, 201015 yr by Merlinman

Your own experience of the Bluetooth issue surely exemplifies the value of discussion and had you read a thread which extensively probed your Bluetooth set up and discovered that you needed to order whatever it was, then you'd have been saved the inconvenience you experienced yourself , but you've posted on here that this thread has gone on too long and posters should get a life.

The difference is that I did not make a fuss about it, I just got on with my life and solved the problem myself. I did not create five pages of bad feeling towards Skoda for a poor use of English in the advertising.

I feel that this post exemplifies a petty element when people feel more strongly about whether two mirrors can be folded by an electric motor rather than be impressed by what a Yeti can give them as a driving experience.

I had electric folding mirrors on my X-Trail and, for seven years of ownership, used the facility 10-15 times. I am quite satisfied that my Yeti, of 12 months ownership, is a perfectly satisfactory vehicle without electrically folding mirrors. This option was not available when I bought my Yeti, a fact that I was aware of when I bought it. I reasoned that, as the mirrors are small, the need for remote control would be an unnecessary extra and, as the mirrors could be folded by opening the window, would be an additional expense if the mirror had to be replaced. (noted from another thread that the Yeti replacement mirror is very expensive indeed)

Edited 23 November, 201015 yr by Terfyn

I find your arrogance unbelievable. Because you do not want or need them we should all just move on. People here have paid good money for functionality they will not receive. Seemingly you have fixed your problem. How do these people fix theirs? I rather though this was the purpose of forums such as this, as mentioned above we have done some good already with the configurator being changed.

I wouldn't wish to prolong, or to get involved in, comments that are becoming personal but the point is well made that different extras have different degrees of importance for different people depending on the different circumstances of their driving.

What is unpardonable is both Skoda UK's (at best) slack or (at worst) purposely misleading advertising and ill-informed sales network. I would hope we could all agree on these points.

I wouldn't wish to prolong, or to get involved in, comments that are becoming personal but the point is well made that different extras have different degrees of importance for different people depending on the different circumstances of their driving.

What is unpardonable is both Skoda UK's (at best) slack or (at worst) purposely misleading advertising and ill-informed sales network. I would hope we could all agree on these points.

+1

I find your arrogance unbelievable. Because you do not want or need them we should all just move on. People here have paid good money for functionality they will not receive. Seemingly you have fixed your problem. How do these people fix theirs? I rather though this was the purpose of forums such as this, as mentioned above we have done some good already with the configurator being changed.

+1

+2

I added to order elec. seats because of folding mirrors and seat tilt.

And now, after all the missunderstanding with mirrors, I hope the seat will actually tilt...

Edited 23 November, 201015 yr by lok

To a degree ... (or 110 of them, actually).

I think Lok is referring to the seat base. The seat back has a maximum angle it can go to, but what he wants is the seat base where the front and back can be moved independently. On the non electric seat you cannot change the pitch of the seat base.

Probably. Just my feeble attempt to introduce a little levity into what has become a rather heavy thread - almost a rope, in fact.

Yes things have taken a dip alas. But on the SMOC the dips don't last long. Everyone will be friends again soon enough.

Just out of interest the Skoda website appears to be off the air.The Corporate Lawyers must be going through it with a fine tooth comb and a punctuation/spell checker....

Just built another Yeti there!

No folding mirrors though

See post on Allams about Electric seats.

Customer Care are calling people who have ordered the option.

I'll await the call - disappointed but potentially happy!

I find your arrogance unbelievable. Because you do not want or need them we should all just move on.

Oh dear! Oh dear Mr GazzaC you do get upset. And so rude.

You criticised my comments "about get a life" and now you claim that I am arrogant. You don't know me so don't presume to comment on me especially as you feel that I have no right to comment on you.

Whether I want folding mirrors is totally immaterial - I can't have them 'cos Skoda don't supply them. Every car is a compromise of equipment versus cost and profit.

I have had seven very satisfactory years worth my X-Trail, fitted with folding mirrors, a sun roof and leather seats. I now have none of these in my Yeti because, in my opinion, I did not need them. After 12 months of use, I am still satisfied with my choice. That's my side of the story.

If these features are so important to you, why did you not buy an X-Trail or any other 4x4 that supplied your needs.

Your arrogance is that you expect Skoda to meet all your needs when they have decided to limit some extras but supply so many more.

I have no doubt that Skoda will, in the years to come, upgrade their models to keep up with the market. Probably they will include folding mirrors.

Ding ding (or as my mother would be prone to say "a row as big as a fight"?)

Anyway I found the whole new car specifying /purchasing thing a bit tiresome, in that after persuing the brocheures and shortlisting the desirable options, one had to ask the dealer specific questions,

like if I specify option "X" does it automatically include "Y" cos the brochure implys it does.

But the dealer does not know, from personal experience.

Unfortunately ( & I honestly feel for the poor sales staff ) cars & their vastly complex permutations of ever changing specifications are almost beyond understanding.

Specifically when i asked about the Maxidot option & was told it basically only offered a bigger flasher display, with NO added funcionality ( & I sperfecially asked about said added functionallity?)

DOH.

So ditto for these dammed mirrors.

Me I would only have wanted the better seat, especially with the facility ( or indeed perhaps not?) to change the rake of the seat squab.

Which is where the on-line configurator SHOULD be infallible.

i.e. automatically throwing out non compatabile options, & continually listing in simple clear English what IS/IS NOT included/not compatible.

Really.

Simples.