A fright yesterday on my first trip with my youngest grandchild aboard. The others have grown beyond safety seats.

I took my son to collect his two-year-old from creche. Son installed their own safety seat in the Yeti, without problem, on the nearside back seat. As we left the premises with Sam strapped in, there was a 'click' and the 'door open' warning came up for the n/s rear door. We stopped and shut it again firmly, having found nothing interfering with the latch. Within seconds of moving on, the door was open again.....

...and there was Junior, a big grin on his face, leaning forward, with his fist full of door handle.

My fault totally. Complacency in the new Yeti - in the just-gone X-Trail it wasn't possible for the little ones to operate the rear door handles from their safety seats, and we'd never needed to use the child-locks as they grew up.

Lesson learned: Little one aboard the Yeti, child-lock ON.

(If a Mod wants to move this, do so. I don't know enough about other Skodas to know if there's a parallel.)

Good advice. There was a story recently of a grandparent driving a 2yo child in the car, when the child undid their belt and opened a door, fell out and was sadly killed. All child locks are now engaged on both my cars.

Edited 6 September, 201213 yr by weasley

The child locks in our brand new Yeti don't seem to work. The ones in our 14 plate one were of the same design and worked perfectly. I checked the manual to see if there have been any changes but no, should be just the same.

 

Upon turning the key in the child lock inside the rear edge of the rear doors, the lock just springs back to the horizontal position.

 

Has anyone else had this problem on a recent Yeti? Could you try it for me (don't forget to take the rubber bungs out first)? One other thing I noticed is the child lock on the offside is black whereas it's white on the near side. Are yours like this? 

Hi Nick P

I've just joined the forum owning a 2015 Yeti.

Popped outside to have a look for you.

If you remove the bungs indeed one side black the other white,but this is not the child lock points,

They are a little further round the door(no bungs) marked by a child symbol stamped into the metal.

Regards

Jeff

Our 2015 has no rubber bungs. Nor, from memory, did our 2012. The child lock turns with a positive click.

I feel a right wally. I think I missed the actual child locks on the inside of the open doors as the new car is black (old one was white) and I was looking at it in shade. As pointed out by a couple of helpful people I was actually fiddling with the emergency lock override. I must admit, I thought it was odd there were rubber bungs in them!

 

Child locks now engaged.

Edited 5 July, 20169 yr by Nick P