This is my first real post here, sorry to be a negative experience :

You buy a new car, and think - now I'm ready to do many happy miles with no worries, and then after only one month and 570 kilometers red light from generator is on, and soon after the red light from colling system is also on - combination that says stop your car and wait for help.

Open the hood, coolant looks ok, no leaks, battery looks ok, everything is shiny like it should be on a new car.

Then I look better, and see that there is no V belt, which powers collant pump, generator, climate compressor and maybe some other things. Ok, the belt is there, but in pieces, on the motor floor, more precisly on the plastic below the motor:

Called mobile guarantee, they brought replacement car, took our car and take it in workshop, where on Monday they should fix it. No complains on this service, in cca 1,5 hours everything was done ( except for fixing our car, because it is weekend ) .

Now, I don't get it how this can happen on a NEW car? How will I be able to go on a longish trip with no worries ? Has somebody else had a similar experience ?

This is a very unfortunate occurance and is probably due to a flaw in the belt itself. It can happen with any car. I shouldn't take it as an indicator of the long-term reliability of your Yeti...

Edited 5 June, 201115 yr by looby

As above flaw in belt, this is not uncommon. Don't blame Skoda they don't make the belt. As to being afraid to go on a journey in case something goes wrong, what a load of rubbish no car or any mechanical or electrical item is perfect and guaranteed never to fail. Get a life.

Retired M.V.Tech.

As above flaw in belt, this is not uncommon. Don't blame Skoda they don't make the belt. As to being afraid to go on a journey in case something goes wrong, what a load of rubbish no car or any mechanical or electrical item is perfect and guaranteed never to fail. Get a life.

Retired M.V.Tech.

OK, you are correct, everything is possible, but after only 400 miles from new ???

As above flaw in belt, this is not uncommon. Don't blame Skoda they don't make the belt. As to being afraid to go on a journey in case something goes wrong, what a load of rubbish no car or any mechanical or electrical item is perfect and guaranteed never to fail....

Sorry but it is down to Skoda. Applying your argument, then every defect would be the fault of the component manufacturer rather than the firm that inspects the parts and puts them all together. Having said that, this sort of thing can happen at any time. It's just that it is very, very unusual in such a new car.

............. Get a life.

Retired M.V.Tech.

That's not too pleasant to a fellow poster and particularly a newish foreign one with English probably as a second language. Hopefully he/she will find the majority of us a bit more friendly!

to hear that you have had an issue. As others have stated it could be an undetected manufacturing fault with the belt or another alternative being incorrectly set tension (possibly have an auto tensioner :wonder: ). All being well your dealer will resolve the problem.

Not so long back I posted a link to a Yeti 4x4 that had suffered catastrophic failure of the Haldex box; this was traced to Haldex themselves as a cotter pin had not been fitted during factory assembly :S The car was by coincidence on long term test with an Auto magazine.

My link

Regards,

TP

Sorry but it is down to Skoda. Applying your argument, then every defect would be the fault of the component manufacturer rather than the firm that inspects the parts and puts them all together. Having said that, this sort of thing can happen at any time. It's just that it is very, very unusual in such a new car.

That's not too pleasant to a fellow poster and particularly a newish foreign one with English probably as a second language. Hopefully he/she will find the majority of us a bit more friendly!

Quite right!,good manners cost nothing and I think the OP has every right to hacked off with the fault on his car.

Sorry but it is down to Skoda. Applying your argument, then every defect would be the fault of the component manufacturer rather than the firm that inspects the parts and puts them all together. Having said that, this sort of thing can happen at any time. It's just that it is very, very unusual in such a new car.

That is my opinion too. Hope it was only a faulty belt, because if it is something else - some of the parts that this belt drives - it will probbably happen again. Must go in the workshop on Monday to check what have they done.

That's not too pleasant to a fellow poster and particularly a newish foreign one with English probably as a second language. Hopefully he/she will find the majority of us a bit more friendly!

Thank you for asking good manners, really was not nice to read something like that, but I passed like it was nothing because Spectrum probably worked with complaining and nagging customers and looked at me as one of those.

Welcome!

Belt failure is rare but every mass manufactured component must have a small fault rate, just bad luck I'm afraid. Sounds as though you caught it in time to avoid damage beyond the belt. I would be fed up if it had happened to me!

You are right to ignore the throwaway insult-I'm sure it wasn't meant.

As above flaw in belt, this is not uncommon. Don't blame Skoda they don't make the belt. As to being afraid to go on a journey in case something goes wrong, what a load of rubbish no car or any mechanical or electrical item is perfect and guaranteed never to fail. Get a life.

Retired M.V.Tech.

That's a friendly post towards a new poster! :wonder:

Could it be Country related, I see the Original Poster is from Split, Croatia

Sorry couldn't resist

Hope you get it sorted

Could it be Country related, I see the Original Poster is from Split, Croatia

Sorry couldn't resist

Hope you get it sorted

LOL.

This is my first real post here, sorry to be a negative experience :

You buy a new car, and think - now I'm ready to do many happy miles with no worries, and then after only one month and 570 kilometers red light from generator is on, and soon after the red light from colling system is also on - combination that says stop your car and wait for help.

Open the hood, coolant looks ok, no leaks, battery looks ok, everything is shiny like it should be on a new car.

Then I look better, and see that there is no V belt, which powers collant pump, generator, climate compressor and maybe some other things. Ok, the belt is there, but in pieces, on the motor floor, more precisly on the plastic below the motor:

Called mobile guarantee, they brought replacement car, took our car and take it in workshop, where on Monday they should fix it. No complains on this service, in cca 1,5 hours everything was done ( except for fixing our car, because it is weekend ) .

Now, I don't get it how this can happen on a NEW car? How will I be able to go on a longish trip with no worries ? Has somebody else had a similar experience ?

Hi,

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the photoes.

I don't think any of the UK model had experienced this.

It's good to know the garage was quick to sort this out. Did they check anything else, such as the headgasket since the coolant wasn't going through the system.

As above flaw in belt, this is not uncommon. Don't blame Skoda they don't make the belt. As to being afraid to go on a journey in case something goes wrong, what a load of rubbish no car or any mechanical or electrical item is perfect and guaranteed never to fail. Get a life.

Retired M.V.Tech.

A little bit harsh on the poster who is obviously quite upset and a little annoyed at a failure after so few miles.

Certainly not the way we like new members to be welcomed or indeed existing members to be treated either.

Hi,

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the photoes.

I don't think any of the UK model had experienced this.

It's good to know the garage was quick to sort this out. Did they check anything else, such as the headgasket since the coolant wasn't going through the system.

Thanks for the welcome, it is a very helpfull forum with great members ( except for some grumpy ones ;-)

Since this happened yesterday ( saturday ) garage did nothing, but hope it will do it tomorrow ( Monday ).

Will keep you informed.

Sorry but it is down to Skoda. Applying your argument, then every defect would be the fault of the component manufacturer rather than the firm that inspects the parts and puts them all together. Having said that, this sort of thing can happen at any time. It's just that it is very, very unusual in such a new car.

That's not too pleasant to a fellow poster and particularly a newish foreign one with English probably as a second language. Hopefully he/she will find the majority of us a bit more friendly!

:thumbup:

Update : belt apparently broke without an outside reason, just a faulty belt. Garage does not have a new belt, it will come in a few days, until then we can use the replacement car - an old type Octavia 1.6 petrol. Hope everything will be ok in the end and without problems for the engine.

Update : belt apparently broke without an outside reason, just a faulty belt. Garage does not have a new belt, it will come in a few days, until then we can use the replacement car - an old type Octavia 1.6 petrol. Hope everything will be ok in the end and without problems for the engine.

Were you lucky and it simply failed, or have they said if it caused any damage?

I'd say you're very lucky not to have had any engine damage.

Were you lucky and it simply failed, or have they said if it caused any damage?

I'd say you're very lucky not to have had any engine damage.

Not that much damage to be done if he stopped as soon as it happened.

The engine uses a chain instead of a belt for the cams (damn whats the proper term for that again!?)

The belt only drove the cooling system,aircon and other auxilarys, of course if he kept driving the engine would of overheated.

How do I know if the engine had some damage ?

How do I know if the engine had some damage ?

I doubt you would beyond anything obvious. If you stopped the car as soon as the warning appeared then all should be OK. I would ask them to make sure the alternator behind the pulley shown in the close up shot has not been damaged as it looks like some of the belt remains has become wrapped around it. It should be OK but in your position I would be watching all the guages and levels under the bonnet like a hawk for a while, just to make sure all is fine.

Ian

I would have the fault logged with skoda

for future referance , as future problems may arise from the engine overheating(that's why the coolant light came on)!I don't want to be negative but the chances of it being "just a faulty belt " are extremely remote, my bet is it's possibly a faulty belt tensioner or more likely an alignment problem, I would be very tempted to guess this may happen again if it does I would. Reject the vehicle, sorry but we work with a major manufactureres vans and one of them is always spitting it's belts off! It's a positive step that you shut down the engine as soon as you didas that could have made a serious difference!

Must tell you about an very uncorrect behaviour of Skoda dealers and Skoda rapresentatives in Croatia : we had to pay 50 EUR for fourth day of replacement car. It is because they gave us replacement car from a rent a car agency, but did not tell it is only for 3 days. When dealer called us on day four ( they did not have the belt, that's why 4 days ! ) to pick up the car, rent a car told us somebody has to pay the fourth day. Dealer refused so rent a car used our credit card to bill us day four. And later we found out this dealer had to gave us his replacement car for day four !!

Bravo Skoda ( in a negative way)!

Edited 23 June, 201115 yr by VD - ST

No manufactured part can be guaranteed 100%. Every so often a weak part will be produced and sneak through QC as it is good enough to pass but with a weakness in it that will cause a problem at some stage. I always think the key at this point is not the faulty part but how the company concerned react to the problem. The reaction sounds pretty good to me.

I relate it at work to carriers and freight companies. They shouldn't lose anything with modern day tracking systems but every so often they will. How do they react at that point? That separates the good from the bad.

From the reaction on here the issue does not sound widespread, you have just been unlucky.