Hi, I am looking at getting a yeti, it could be a long term buy and I would like to get the Greenline. Reasons? I believe that fuel prices could jump up at any point in the next 5 years and mileage may become a massive factor. Also I like to feel I am doing my bit for the environment. Thing is i don't use a vehicle constantly a combination of poor health and being a musician means the car may be unused for a couple of weeks max and then taken on a journey of anything from 40 to 300 miles or so. Overall I don't clock up massive mileage and I know that overall cost may not be a saving but when I have money I can afford such a car in the future the cost of petrol may be a major issue for me. Am I looking at problems with the particulate filter? I have a Qashqai now and there hasn't been any problems with the particulate filter in that and it does have one. Any views?

It's lots of short trips they don't like as they need to get hot enough every so often to run a regen cycle on the Diesel Particulate Filter.

For your use it sounds fine.

Bare in mind the class of vehicle (wether Quashqui or Yeti) is never going to be as fuel efficient as a regular car as the upright stance adds wind resistance.

So if fuel economy is the biggest consideration a regular diesel car will go further per gallon of fuel.

The Greenliine averaged 55mpg in my hands, but the smaller 1.2 diesel Fabia was over 10mpg more...

Of course, if you need or want a tall upright vehicle then it's one of the more economical ones out there.

Thanks, that's reassuring I need this class for both a wheelchair and music equipment, also easier to get into than the lower cars.

What sorts of distance runs the regen cycle?

Edited 22 June, 201313 yr by Shambolic

....being a musician ....

Hi Shambolic! Do you have to transport instrument(s) and/or equipment? A piccolo is a different beast from a drum kit :wonder:

(Ed: Ah! your latest came up while I was posting.)

lol, yes Sometimes I wish it was a piccolo but it's amp speaker and guitar.

Thanks, that's reassuring I need this class for both a wheelchair and music equipment, also easier to get into than the lower cars.

What sorts of distance runs the regen cycle?

It depends on your driving and it's not easy to spot them so most people probably don't really know.

In 22k miles I've only noticed my Yeti doing it once with a slightly raised tickover speed at idle.

I'm guess it usually does it when I am whizzing round the motorway so can't be felt.

I've heard people say every 200, 500 and 1000 miles.

My Mum has the Greenline Yeti and only does local trips mostly (under 10 miles), with a long run every two months or so and she's never noticed it either in 20k miles.

Whereas the DPF on ours goes into overdrive every winter, despite covering 72 miles a day commuting to work and back across open country roads. Hopefully though I may have sorted it by fitting a lower grill cover, thus keeping the engine bay a little warmer.

If you don't need diesel I go for the excellent 1.2TSI myself, would be my choice but I like to have 4x4 (1.8TSI 4x4 sadly to expensive to run IMHO).

TP

Hi Shambolic. I also had the dilemma of whether to go petrol or diesel but after talking the ears off Skoda Customer Services and every dealer I could find, without exception all told me for my driving - generally short trips on local roads with just the occasional decent run, I would be better with the 1.2 petrol, because of the potential problems I could have with the DPF through not driving far enough and fast enough on a regular basis. (Another consideration for me was I wanted a space wheel, which is not a standard option for the Greenline and I was told would add £200-£300 to fit after delivery and also the heated windscreen, also not an option with the Greenline).

I've now had my 1.2 manual Elegance for three weeks or so, the first "fill-to-fill" was 38mpg from this new engine (comparable with the 40mpg I was routinely getting with my well worn in 2.0 litre diesel Volvo V50 for similar journey patterns. The measured 38mpg was spot on with the estimated mpg from the MFD. On a 150 mile round trip a couple of days ago the MFD showed 48mpg, again pretty much the same as the Volvo would do on a similar run. Fuel prices are volatile but my original reason for going diesel many years ago was diesel was significantly cheaper than petrol, the opposite has been true for a number of years now and whilst petrol prices are likely to go up there have been media stories that new emission regulations of maritime diesel could force up all diesel prices!

Of course you can't ignore fuel prices these days but these are only a part of the running costs so you also need to factor in purchase price, depreciation, road tax, insurance, servicing costs etc but maybe most importantly do you enjoy driving the diesel or petrol powered models more? After a 2.0 litre diesel I thought I'd find the 1.2 petrol under-powered and disappointing but I haven't - it's a real pleasure to drive and more than sufficient for my needs.

Whatever Yeti you buy, I hope you have as much fun as I'm having - and I've still only got 2WD.

Hi Shambolic

(Don't I recognise that name from another 4x4 Forum?)

Give Freshacre a shout on here, as he is a musician that carries a lot of kit about, and he may give you some suitable advice.

Give Freshacre a shout on here, as he is a musician that carries a lot of kit about, and he may give you some suitable advice.

I thought my ears were burning!

I carry a full PA system - mixer amp, 5 mic stands, 2 pa speaker stands, 2 pa speakers, 2 monitor speakers, 2 mini monitors, 6 containers with leads, mics, bits, spares - as well as a guitar amp, bass amp, electric and 2 acoustic guitars, and a bass.

To accommodate it all I removed the middle rear seat and tumbled the outer seats forward. It all loads beneath the window line, so if I have to take additional instruments I can lay them on top of the other equipment...

I suppose I can say that the Yeti was more than capable at swallowing whatever I threw in it, though to take the bass guitar it was necessary to remove the middle seat because of the length of the case. Width wise, the Yeti is a bit restricted in that, in the boot, a bog standard acoustic in a flight case will not fit and has to be carried longways with the seats tumbled - a two second operation.

Hope this is of some use in your deliberations because in every respect I found the Yeti to be a marvellous car, including performance and economy (43.5mpg over 54k miles overall), road holding and pleasure of driving.

Sounds great! I've not got that amount to get in ( unless we are using the double bass, which i would imagine is unlikely to fit) Normally it's just an amp head and Cab plus one or two guitars. Gretsch semis.