Thanks to encouragement re this forum I acquired front mudflaps via fleabay and yes the fitting was oh so quick and simple - once I had acquired a T25 screw device..

To ease the job I first set the Yeti with steering on full right lock and this made accessing the inner screw very easy. I then put it on full left lock and yes it made accessing the nearside inner screw easier but not as easy as the other side. Got back in car to make sure it was indeed on full left lock - and it was. Assuming the car is symmetrical re the location of those inner screws it would appear that full right lock is slightly tighter than full left lock. I'm not worried - car drives ok, steering ok and no strange wear on tyres - it just struck me as slightly odd.

Washed the car (rare thing) and now expect not a single speck of dirt to be on it after fitting mud flaps :-)))

No. it's fairly normal. It's to do with the Ackerman principle

And I'm sorry but they won't stop ALL the muck.

Thanks to encouragement re this forum I acquired front mudflaps via fleabay and yes the fitting was oh so quick and simple - once I had acquired a T25 screw device..

To ease the job I first set the Yeti with steering on full right lock and this made accessing the inner screw very easy. I then put it on full left lock and yes it made accessing the nearside inner screw easier but not as easy as the other side. Got back in car to make sure it was indeed on full left lock - and it was. Assuming the car is symmetrical re the location of those inner screws it would appear that full right lock is slightly tighter than full left lock. I'm not worried - car drives ok, steering ok and no strange wear on tyres - it just struck me as slightly odd.

Washed the car (rare thing) and now expect not a single speck of dirt to be on it after fitting mud flaps :-)))

In fact you can easily reach both sets of screws with the steering only turned fully one way.

You need to add extensions to lengthen and widen the Skoda flaps to stop more of the muck.

No. it's fairly normal. It's to do with the Ackerman principle

And I'm sorry but they won't stop ALL the muck.

Yes,only the 6" or so behind the mudflap.The rest of the car will be just as mucky as usual.

No. it's fairly normal. It's to do with the Ackerman principle

Blimey Graham, haven't heard about old Ackerman since my apprenticeship back in the 60s. I remember spending many hours studying his very clever and necessary principle!

Indeed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry

Indeed!

http://en.wikipedia....eering_geometry

And the other way?

I thought the OP was saying that turn wheels one way and it goes round more than if you turn the wheels the other way. Or am I having a blonde moment

And the other way?

I thought the OP was saying that turn wheels one way and it goes round more than if you turn the wheels the other way. Or am I having a blonde moment

Thanks for all the interesting and detailed info. Just to confirm that I found the front wheel on the offside when on full right lock seemed to further turned out than the nearside wheel was when on full left lock. The screw behind the offside wheel on full right lock was more accessible than the screw behind the nearside wheel on full left lock. Very little in it but noticeble when scraping knuckles.

Such asymmetry is usually caused by the steering wheel's 12 o'clock position not coinciding with the central position of the steering rack. Considering that the steering wheel and the steering shaft have a spline coupling, this is not uncommon. And as during the tracking adjustment they set the steering wheel into 12 o'clock position, you won't notice any difference until you try to turn the steering wheel from stop to stop.

I had alignment issues a while back and we found that most Yetis (and Octavias) don't have the same left and right lock.

It is actually common across lots of vehicles, not just Skodas. The Freelander had a turning circle almost 12" bigger in one direction than the other.

Isn't that to prevent the foo foo effect?

Fred