Now this is embarrassing. Until now other Yetis have been spotted only occasionally, always moving and never in platinum grey.

Today I stopped at a local supermarket to use the cash machine and grab a sandwich for lunch. I parked up, went in and 5 minutes later came out and tried to unlock the yeti. No response. Tried again, no beep. Tried the door handle, still locked.

Then I noticed it had alloys, and remembered that as of yesterday I'm on steelies. ooops. Quickly established no one had spotted me and moved three cars down to the correct Yeti!

good job you don't drive a Focus or Mondeo

good job you don't drive a Focus or Mondeo

Or a Gunmetal Grey BMW 320D with badly kerbed wheels. They seem to be everywhere.

I reckon that if I had a more common car I would pay more attention!

Now this is embarrassing. Until now other Yetis have been spotted only occasionally, always moving and never in platinum grey.

Today I stopped at a local supermarket to use the cash machine and grab a sandwich for lunch. I parked up, went in and 5 minutes later came out and tried to unlock the yeti. No response. Tried again, no beep. Tried the door handle, still locked.

Then I noticed it had alloys, and remembered that as of yesterday I'm on steelies. ooops. Quickly established no one had spotted me and moved three cars down to the correct Yeti!

My mum did this once in 1978 with her then red Golf 1. Only after trying the door a few times did she look inside the car to see two terrified children inside!!!!!! Her red Golf was also just a few cars away!

Almost had a similar problem at Oxford Services earlier.

Parked up, visited KFC for lunch and came out to find two nearly identical Muscavado 4x4 yeti's parked nearly next to each other..

Had to double check I was trying to get into the right one.

...4x4 yeti's parked nearly next to each other..

Must admit that on the couple of rare occasions when I've had the opportunity, I've taken some childish pleasure in parking literally next to a superficially (same colour at least) Yeti. Unfortunately on both occasions it was a swift in and out of the supermarket for me and so probably on-one else even noticed.

Must admit that on the couple of rare occasions when I've had the opportunity, I've taken some childish pleasure in parking literally next to a superficially (same colour at least) Yeti. Unfortunately on both occasions it was a swift in and out of the supermarket for me and so probably on-one else even noticed.

clearly that's what someone did today - but I did notice.....eventually. At least there were no terrified children involved

May be a private plate would solve the problem...

May be a private plate would solve the problem...

nice try

Frankly if I didn't spot different wheels then I doubt a plate would get my attention

Must admit that on the couple of rare occasions when I've had the opportunity, I've taken some childish pleasure in parking literally next to a superficially (same colour at least) Yeti. Unfortunately on both occasions it was a swift in and out of the supermarket for me and so probably on-one else even noticed.

We're still waiting for ours, but my wife deliberately moved her car across a car park to park alongside a Steel Grey one yesterday. She has been playing Yeti spotting for a while, and I got a MMS with a photo saying "look what I found!"

I remember some years ago coming back and getting into my mondeo in a supermarket car park and then wondering who had left all the sweet papers on the passenger floor. Then realised my car was parked 3 bays further along. Same colour, year model and for some reason remote key code as well.

Fortunately no one saw as I very embarasedly re-locked the car and went to my own

Getting back to Yeti's, they are all over the place now, its a rare long journey when you don't see one or more.

A colleague of mine did this with a Nissan Pathfinder at Le Mans once. We were driving a LHD French one. He actually got in the vehicle and put the key into the ignition before he realised that he was in the wrong car. (It must have been unlocked). The car childseats were the giveaway, and the fact that the door handle worked (on ours - it had came off in my hand the previous day).