A Yeti jacks on the "sill fold", so i doubt it.

A Yeti jacks on the "sill fold", so i doubt it.

So does an Octavia, Golf, Scirocco, Audi S3 and Audi TT jack on the sill fold - have you read the link?

I DON'T NEED TO KNOW WHERE MY JACKING POINTS ARE, AS I DON'T HAVE A SPARE WHEEl.

If the 'gunk' can't fix my flat, I'll call Skoda Assistance. :yes:

Just for you Graham:

What are the 2 areals on the roof of your Yeti???

What are the 2 areals on the roof of your Yeti???

They are two motorsport aerials for two MSA radios. One is for MSA "official" duties, the other is a spare and used on open red channel to chat off-line with rescue and recovery vehicles. Two sets so I can hear what's going on on both channels without having to switch and possibly missing an important safety call.

I also have a third handheld radio

would love to watch a rally but never got round to it.maybe this year since i have a suitable car for the forest tracks now

So does an Octavia, Golf, Scirocco, Audi S3 and Audi TT jack on the sill fold - have you read the link?

Since a yeti is octavia platform based too I would have thought the same or similar could be done on the yeti

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would love to watch a rally but never got round to it.maybe this year since i have a suitable car for the forest tracks now

I'm afraid as a spectator you aren't going to get much chance to drive many of the tracks. However as a marshal you get a chance to drive the whole stage, quite often.

There are now 3 of us here who do safety radio on rallies.

Arkaig,

yes I did read the thread and it wasn't plain to me that there was that much similarity.

I DON'T NEED TO KNOW WHERE MY JACKING POINTS ARE, AS I DON'T HAVE A SPARE WHEEl.

If the 'gunk' can't fix my flat, I'll call Skoda Assistance. :yes:

And what a pain the A**E that will be, a spare a jack and on your way again, that's how it has always been, why do manufacturers think it fit to change it now, and don't forget, it's bl***y scary driving at under 50mph on a motorway or dual carriageway.

Fill your flat with GUNK and see what the tyre fitters think when you go to get it fixed.

Anzio,

We have had this "arguement" over the supply of spare wheels on here several times, and over the use of the foam, and the end result has always been the same. Some owners like them, some can't see the point.

The reason manufacturers aren't fitting them is because by removing their weight they can reduce the carbon footprint/weight issue, thereby reducing the VED figures AND reducing their carbon footprint, which they have been forced to do by the EU and other bodies.

I've lost count of the number of new cars I've seen on the hard shoulder with a flat tyre and the owner stood next to it waiting for help.

Spare wheel and a jack for me, a 10 minute change and I'm on my way again.

I've jacked up many a car on the sill jacking points with a trolley jack without issue.

Possibly you have, however many companies will not allow employees to change wheels on a company car, especially on motorways. Even more so if it is an off-side wheel that has gone. Personally I wouldn't do it either.

I have been lucky over the years, few punctures (and am touching wood as I post) I am 100% with Llanigraham on the wisdom of Tyre changing at the roadside. On a fast dual carriageway or motorway I am not willing to be on hands and knees beside my car even if I carried a trolley jack I am unwilling to risk it. My last flat but one was on a dark country "A" road the most recent on the approach to the M25 interchange south of St Albans.

In neither circumstance was I willing to trust to luck and start to balance my car on 3 wheels in the path of other people. I have a high vis, a triangle, and still thing the risk too high.

I'd rather run gently on a flat -even at risk of a new rim- to a safe haven or, on a motorway, do my best to make the car conspicuous and get the safe side of the armco.

+1

I think I have fairly retired from wheel-changing now (except for dire emergency). Our last event was the 70mph disintegration of the n/s front on a dual carriageway - no hard shoulder. If we hadn't had a spare there was nothing left to blow gunge into. Bless the AA, but even the Angel had us 50 yards upstream of his van, hi-vized and triangled, to yell if anyone seemed blind to the hazard - and they were, and we did, and he was pretty smartly over the barrier, too!

^{Hi friends,}

^{just joined the community. A bit worried about jacking my yeti for winter tyres fitting. Was wondering wether the pads used at the tyre bay (the rectangular ones that are 16 x 12 cm large) could damage sills or floor protection. Has anybody gone into the fitting bay and watched the operation? I am worried especially for the front tyres.....}

Edited 25 September, 201213 yr by emix2001