A clock that can be read by passengers, maybe high up on the dash, or part of the courtesy light cluster

it would  get spare wheel on the tail gate...

 

 

 

 

I just hope it will not hapen the same as with rav4 and crv which got bigger and bigger and they lost completly their funky character.

I'm with UncleDavros re the readability of instruments. The instrument cluster is very poor. These hooded things around speedo/rev counter serve no useful purpose. I had a Yeti as a courtesy for the day and my wife, in the passenger seat, asked me a few times what the outside temperature was. Also I found I had to move my head a bit to the right to see the speedo needle clearly. I know you tend to get used to these things but having owned an Octavia and 2 Fabias the instruments in them have been a model of clarity and your passenger could just glance over and see time/temperature etc.

Did you adjust the wheel up/down or in/out?

How would adjusting the steering wheel help the issue of clarity when it is caused by the hooded binnacles? Not quite sure what you mean!

You said you couldn't see the needle properly. You didn't say what was obscuring your view. Most people on here have said that it is part of the steering wheel that can obscure, therefore moving the wheel can improve the matter.

Perhaps you should have been more specific.

Well yes, but what else could you do, other than use a genuine skinny spacesaver wheel/tyre? Maybe there's a way of mounting it vertically to one side or the other, but wouldn't that unbalance the whole car? On the back - no, no, no! (And besides it's almost certainly not practicable.)

 

A combination of a spacesaver spare wheel and a stretched boot would be nice. 

Stretching the boot would make the departure angle of the car worse, therefore making it worse off-road. It would also increase the overhang from the back axle which would be detrimental to the currently very good towing stability.

Stretching the boot would make the departure angle of the car worse, therefore making it worse off-road. It would also increase the overhang from the back axle which would be detrimental to the currently very good towing stability.

 

Yeah agreed. Maybe stretching the wheelbase might make more sense then.

 

Regarding the spare wheel: I wonder how the one in the Octavia reduces the luggage space by just 20 litres while the one in the Yeti takes up so much more space.

In reply to Graham's post above (#31) it was clear that I was referring to the raised binnacles causing the problem with readability of the instruments. How could I be more specific? More importantly, as a driver who has had a Yeti for a long time, I wonder, Graham, what you actually think of the point I've raised about clarity of reading the instruments. Perhaps I am missing the reason for the use of the raised binnacles!

Off-roadability, in this context, is the overall geometry of the underpinning, isn't it?  Approach and departure angles depend on how close the wheels are to front and rear respectively; the ramp angle depends on ground clearance and the distance apart of front and rear wheels.  Stretching either the boot or the wheelbase would be detrimental. 

 

In passing, I've never wanted or needed to have a proper look at a Fabia.  This morning, I chanced to walk past one that had its boot open; now, that is small!!

Off-roadability, in this context, is the overall geometry of the underpinning, isn't it?  Approach and departure angles depend on how close the wheels are to front and rear respectively; the ramp angle depends on ground clearance and the distance apart of front and rear wheels.  Stretching either the boot or the wheelbase would be detrimental. 

 

I agree with that, but the way I see it the Yeti is more of a family car with decent off-road capabilities than a thoroughbred off-road vehicle. Stretching the wheelbase or boot might hamper the off road capability a bit, but I think many people would appreciate the increased boot space. 

Approach and departure angles depend on how close the wheels are to front and rear respectively; the ramp angle depends on ground clearance and the distance apart of front and rear wheels.  Stretching either the boot or the wheelbase would be detrimental.

Seems to me that this is a non-issue in practice. If the current Yeti boot was stretched modestly (eg 100-150mm) on the same wheelbase as now, isn't it possible that the stylists could could angle up the underskirt at the rear so as to preserve the existing departure angle? Maybe the tailgate would need to be slightly less tall and the bumper redesigned a bit. But feasible surely?

All a bit academic though - it's not going to happen on the current Yeti and the Yeti II will presumably have a completely different underside geometry anyway.

In reply to Graham's post above (#31) it was clear that I was referring to the raised binnacles causing the problem with readability of the instruments. How could I be more specific? More importantly, as a driver who has had a Yeti for a long time, I wonder, Graham, what you actually think of the point I've raised about clarity of reading the instruments. Perhaps I am missing the reason for the use of the raised binnacles!

I had the seat as high as it would go and the steering wheel as high as it would go, and I had problems seeing the top of the speedo as it was hidden by the steering wheel.

I didn't like the 'sunken' aspect where the speedo and tacho were in tunnels you had to look down, preferred the Fabia and Octavia and Roomster flat panel.

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In reply to Graham's post above (#31) it was clear that I was referring to the raised binnacles causing the problem with readability of the instruments. How could I be more specific? More importantly, as a driver who has had a Yeti for a long time, I wonder, Graham, what you actually think of the point I've raised about clarity of reading the instruments. Perhaps I am missing the reason for the use of the raised binnacles!

 

You said you couldn't see some of the speedo AND you said you didn't like the "tunnels". I didn't see that the two things were connected and it wasn't plain from your words. It's never bothered me in the 3 years I've had the car, but then we are not all the same. C'est la vie.

 

I agree with that, but the way I see it the Yeti is more of a family car with decent off-road capabilities than a thoroughbred off-road vehicle. Stretching the wheelbase or boot might hamper the off road capability a bit, but I think many people would appreciate the increased boot space. 

 

But if you alter those 2 items you will remove the good off-road capabilities. Even putting an inch into the wheel base would drastically reduce the ramp-over angle, and there are too many bits under the back to raise out of the way to allow an extension there.

 

And as many. many here have said, the boot is not really that small, but you have to think differently in the loading. As examples the boot on Mike's Freelander is the same size, but in the 7 years I had one I never heard anyone complain about it, and as has been said, look at the size of the boot on a Fabia! They really are small.

And as many. many here have said, the boot is not really that small, As examples the boot on Mike's Freelander is the same size.

Well, almost.

As you well know the spare wheel is on the outside, so that is great, the floor is level with no drop down, unlike the Yeti without the floor.

Boot space with seats up to glass:

The Yeti with spare wheel has 322 litres

The Yeti without spare wheel has 416 litres

My Freelander has 354 litres, which is why it feels slightly bigger, but the outer seats don't slide forwards so I can't put one of my normal bags front to back like I used to.

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