Hi

I'm mighty impressed with our recent purchase of a 110 TDi Yeti SE+, all the bells and whistles we need. The drive is very good too, the pootle around town is responsive and the 550 mile trip to Dorset and back last weekend proved it was a good motorway cruiser as well.

However, there is one exception.....the gear change, 4th to 5th. I've owned diesels for many years now, ,all makes and models, and the engines all pulled very well in every gear and at almost any revs.

The Yeti seems to struggle - for example, using the gear change indicator as a general guide, the indicator moves to show 5 at around 40mph, but changing up then back on the gas the car judders as if trying to change to 5th at very low speed and revs - it sometimes picks up and the judder stops with extra gas but more often than not it's back to 4th and start again.

4th to 5th seems a very tall gear and the motor just doesn't have the guts sometimes, unless on a very level road surface.

Any ideas? I was thinking of a shark remap to add a touch more power and this may also iron out any gremlins - what do you think?

Regards

Chubbs

The gear change indicator on mine suggests you changeup far to early. I think its programmed to keep the revs as low as possible. I ignore it and change when it feels right.

Andy

engine rev around 1400? if so foot off gas then back on, seems to solve a similar sitn on mine - it only occurs occaisionaly

Ignore the gear indicator, I don't know why they included it, just listen to the engine it will tell you when to change. Oh, and also save you money by not having to go to Shark.

Ignore the gear indicator, I don't know why they included it, just listen to the engine it will tell you when to change. Oh, and also save you money by not having to go to Shark.

Agree - listen and change!

Not sure why everyone knocks the gear change indicator so much - it is doing what it is designed to do and indicate when you CAN change up for best economy.

If it displays an indicated gear change and you accelerate harder it goes away again - and will come on again once it detects that a gear change would again be of benefit to fuel economy.

Cannot drive mine to the gear indicator labours far to much, particularly 5 and 6, which is not good for the DMF :no:

She gets unhappy with higher gears the closer you are to 1500rpm so generally I find 3rd to 29, 4th to 44, 5th to 59 and 6th from then on depending on inclines obviously.

TP

Mine indicates to change up at 1500 rpm and will do so without any problem, but I leave it later and get better mpg.

Thanks for the replies - the use of the gear shift indicator was a bad example perhaps. I tried it in 5th gear today and it ran out of steam at around 40mph on a slight incline then started to judder - so that tells me it's just a bit gutless and I need to drive the Yeti in a different way to previous motors - no problem, just wanted to confirm there was nothing wrong.

Regards

Chubbs

http://www.briskoda....ng#entry2766187

I had this when I first had my Yeti 110 SE and followed the advice given in the link and modified my driving technique.

Fred

PS I tend to ignore the gear change advisor.

Cheers Fred, as I thought, a change in driving style!

Before I got my car I tested a few 2.0 VAG Diesel cars and the 140 were the same (Skoda and Seat) using the shift indicator, I agree that on the 140 DSG Yeti 4x4 I tried had not what I would call a judder but the engine was a little rough when it changed up seamingly a tad early and when I eased on the throttle to make progress it felt rough, on the flat at constant revs it was OK, just vibed a tiny bit more than I expected.The car had not done that many miles though. Ignoring the economy mode and just giving the throttle more it kicked down fine and all was much happier. Just let it spin that little bit more and you won't notice it. Oddly thr 170 seemed to cope a little better but currently these are only available with manual gear boxes. My car has done just under 1K in the last 3 weeks and it feels a lot better, come 20K it should be a lot better than now, 50K and it'll about run in