My 2012 Yeti 2.0 Urban TDi went in for it's first service today. The car is on long-life servicing and was actually predicting the next service in 8900 miles / 527 days. It came with 3 years free servicing though and to get the best out of the offer it made sense to have it done every 10K miles.

The car is 8 months old and has covered just over 10K miles. In this time nothing has gone wrong, although the bonnet release lever did come adrift today, just after the service was completed :think:

The car received a clean bill of health and no updates were required. My last Yeti required an "in-service" ECU update at it's first service and wouldn't start afterwards

This is my second Yeti and I appreciate the addition of DAB, bluetooth and Satnav, over my old 1.2 TSi SE.The old car did have park assist, although I only ever seemed to demonstrate this to other people. I never could see the point of it though, as the Yeti must be the easiest car to park (short, with a squared off back). Wouldn't fancy parallel parking a Superb estate without it though

I've averaged 45.5 mpg (best 53.4 / worst 37.2). This is very close to the 1.6 CR TDi Roomster the Yeti replaced. I find this remarkable, given the Yeti weighs almost 100kg more than the Roomster and produces an additional 16 g/km in CO2. THe manufacturers figures also suggest the Roomster should be around 15% more economical.

All in all - so far, so good !!!

Hope they sorted out your bonnet release easily - this happened to me with my previous Octavia Scout and it took the workshop well over an hour to get the bonnet open and then re-attach the mechanism!

Love the Urban - lots of Yeti for the money too. Only issue so far is a sticking glove box handle. I reckon a squirt of WD40 will sort that. Very pleased and the engine is so quite, and agree that so easy to park- no grumbles form me at all.

My Greenline is on 3 year free servicing ,but it's on annual/10,000 miles.

The dealer has even written in 10,000 miles in the service book.

Mine came with Skoda finance.

Is yours on variable because you bought the package?

There has been considerable discussion elsewhere on this site about fixed and variable servicing. Mine was serviced for the first time about a year ago, although it was apparently on variable servicing and wasn't due (but I had a free service available because of an ordering problem - which is another and old story - so decided to have it done). When I collected the car, there was a sticker on the side of the dash indicating that the on-board computer would tell me when the next service would be due. At the moment, it's telling me I don't need another service until I've covered another 8000 miles or in about 11 months' time. However - and despite the fact that I will be p/xing the car for a new L&K Yeti with the same dealer in a couple of months' time - the service department phoned me last week to say it was due for a service! I declined, obviously - yet another of the many cases of left and right hands at Skoda, and a certain lack of transparency/clarity re servicing requirements, I think.

Hi Bilun777 - The car was supplied new to me and was set to Variable servicing. The sticker in the bookpack also states Variable servicing. At the time of servicing the car was predicting the next service to be due in 8900 miles or 527 days.

I bought the car under the finance offer which includes 3 years free servicing. I discussed this with the service advisor at my local maindealer (Rainworth Skoda) and it was suggested that in order to make the best of the offer, I should have the car serviced as per the fixed (every 10K) service schedule. The free servicing offer is time limited (expires in 3 years) and following the variable schedule would have probably seen the car only serviced once in 3 years. The same oil is used for all DPF equipped diesels, regardless of fixed or variable servicing, so servicing every 10K will make the most of the offer and give the car a fresh oil change on a regular basis.

Hi Truthseeker - I'm also pleased with the car. The bonnet release handle is the significant only problem thus far. I'm especially enjoying listening to the cricket in stereo (BBC radio 5 live sports extra on DAB). I also have a 64Gb SD card (formatted to fat32) filled with Audiobooks to keep us all occupied on long journeys. Regarding the engine I've found it an enormous improvement over the 1.6 CR TDi (105 BHP) fitted to my old Roomster. It is, as you say, quiet and pulls from much lower revs than the 1.6 - all with no apparent loss in economy

Hi hmibennett - It was just the handle under the dashboard that came adrift. The tech initially thought the securing clip might have broken, but had it firmly reattached within a few minutes.

Agree on the servicing.

As for the cricket in the stereo....I had to read it twice.

I thought you had a "chirp,chirp" in it.

Hope they sorted out your bonnet release easily - this happened to me with my previous Octavia Scout and it took the workshop well over an hour to get the bonnet open and then re-attach the mechanism!

That doesn't sound very good. I suppose with the increased security of today's cars you can't push a long screwdriver in the grille and lever the mechanism at the bonnet catch end?

Fred