Never buy the Sun, simple reason is because I support Liverpool FC.- Enough said.

Tony

Whoops - forgot that. Mirror OK though?

Yes no problem with the Mirror. To be very truthful I very rarely read Newspapers as I get most of the Blurb from the BBC News website.

Tony

Guys - there's a word missing from the start of their sentence - a technique in English if my memory serves, known as "understood" - and that word is "IF".

 

It then reads "IF fitted with 4-season etc etc" - and then, hey presto, it all make clear sense.

Not to me it doesn't. The sentence makes even less sense, he never mentioned ice and snow, I doubt if four-season tyres or winter tyres for that matter are any better than normal tyres for off-road use. Now if the reviewer had said all-terrain tyres.................... 

Perelli P Zero's on our FLYeti Outdoor. They don't say anything about 4 seasons that I can see.

Maybe they are only fitted on 4x4 FLs 

 

Any 4x4 owners clarify?

I had a heads up that it was in the Daily Mirror today as a friend was closely involved with its creation so I purchased a copy.

 

I chose a shop where I wasn't known and went suitable adorned:

Top hat & tails then!

Maybe they are only fitted on 4x4 FLs 

 

Any 4x4 owners clarify?

The only way to get four season tyres on any Yeti is to fit them yourself or get the dealer to swap them, they only come on standard tyres of whichever make is coming into the factory. 

That's solved that then-  fitted by Skoda UK just for the road test, as suspected.

Or sloppy reporting, since no-one has yet confirmed what actual tyres are shown in any photos in the article!

Impossible to answer the tyre question as the photos shown in the attached image of the article are all library images, as far as I can see.

The Skoda UK FL press vehicle used a Pirelli PZero if that's any help. The L&K Muscavado.

Or sloppy reporting, since no-one has yet confirmed what actual tyres are shown in any photos in the article!

That's exactly what I think too!

 

Wow! Those L & K wheels look nice! 

My contact re the DM article is abroad for a week or two. On their return I shall quiz them mercilessly until I weedle out the truth as to the tyres worn at the time of the test.

 

Interrogation techniques may require a second wearing of the   

My contact re the DM article is abroad for a week or two. On their return I shall quiz them mercilessly until I weedle out the truth as to the tyres worn at the time of the test.

 

Interrogation techniques may require a second wearing of the   

Also find out who fitted them if you can (if indeed 4-seasons were even fitted) - Skoda UK, testers or factory.

 

Certainly opened up a can of worms here Horacecoker.

 

Odds

Skoda UK fitted: - evens

4-Seasons not fitted at all: 7-4

Testers fitted: 5-1

Factory fitted: 100-1

In this weekends Yorkshire Post Motoring Section there is a road test of skoda yeti outdoor 4 x 4  at a press launch in the Cotswolds

Quote  " this is the one we took into the farmers fallow fields the tyres were Goodyear Vector 4seasons which you can leave on winter and summer " unquote

Any chance of a link?

Weird thing is the Skoda press images taken at that launch event in the Cotswolds all show the Outdoor L&K on Pirelli PZeros.

Just found this from the Practical Caravan test of the Yeti FL 4x4. Looks like the same 2014 launch event in the Cotswold.

 

Full winter tyres fitted.

 

The mystery deepens!

 

".........It's worth noting that the car was wearing winter tyres rather than summer rubber, but much of the credit must go the fifth-generation Haldex four-wheel-drive system. In normal on-Tarmac driving, almost all the engines power goes to the front wheels. As soon as the car's sensors detect the wheels are beginning to slip some power is transferred to the rear wheels. Working together with the car's electronic stability systems, up to 85% of the engine's torque can be directed to one wheel if the other three can find no grip.

Few caravanners will ever tackle such a demanding off-road course. But plenty will stay on grass pitches or farm sites, and then the Yeti Outdoor's 4x4 system will prove invaluable.........."

 

http://www.practicalcaravan.com/blog/first-drive-review-new-skoda-yeti-and-yeti-outdoor

Never posted before , Hopefully a link to the digital pages of the yorkshire post motoring section .

Article is on page 8

 

http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=mypagesuite&refresh=2Qa103Jqc07T&PBID=4a04e5b4-a9e6-42da-866d-b0cdeff8ec13&skip=

Cheers zebbidy - that link works fine.

 

Seems no doubt that non standard tyres were fitted.

Just found this from the Practical Caravan test of the Yeti FL 4x4. Looks like the same 2014 launch event in the Cotswold.

Full winter tyres fitted.

The mystery deepens!

BUT that article uses Skoda press images again. And the Outdoor image used is the same car as my wheel image I posted.

Strange indeed.

Is this turning into a conspiracy theory thread looking for a conspiracy...?

 

Winter tyres, four season tyres or 'summer' tyres - does it really matter? We all know that the Yeti (in all forms) is sold in the UK with 'summer' tyres. No one (not the reviewers nor SUK) have claimed otherwise, nor have they hidden the fact that the Yetis (or at least some of the Yetis) used in this particular test were fitted with 'other' tyres.

 

One could cry foul if they had denied or covered up the use of 'non-standard' tyres.

 

The DM test was done during the last week in January (and in the Cotswolds) so quite possibly at the same time as the PC and YP tests.  

Not a conspiracy from my side. They'll all have done their reviews at the same time, during the UK FL launch.

What is interesting is that we have articles directly referencing 'non-summer' tyres. Yet the Skoda UK launch vehicle was running Pirelli PZero 'summer' tyres.

So perhaps a lack of journalistic accuracy, but not a conspiracy....

As I mentioned before, I can find out what was fitted when the DM tested it - but not for a couple of weeks. I'd wager that SUK put winter/four season tyres on the test vehicles which given the state of the ground in the pictures is hardly surprising. Perhaps if it hadn't been raining solidly for the last two months they'd have left standard fit tyres on the beasties. 

Calm down lads - just a bit of fun. 

 

We all know (now) that all UK Yetis come with summer tyres.

 

The point is, that reading all 3 different press articles mentioned, all the testers mention specifically, that non standard tyres were fitted/used ("4-Seasons, Winters, Goodyear Vectors"). 

 

To some, this may give the impression that they come as standard, others may think/know they were fitted specifically for the test.

 

However, there is no doubt that they were fitted, despite that the (library) photos show otherwise, as why is the fact mentioned specifically in all 3 articles.

 

I still believe that they were supplied already fitted by Skoda UK, to give more favorable results on the test, especially considering the awful conditions in the Cotswolds.

 

I have not got an issue with that type of practice, as all manufacturers want the best test results, but it should be made perfectly clear. And, in this instance, maybe a comparison with the summer tyres fitted to the 4x4, would provide balanced test.

 

Happy Days!

Shame though that eg Vector 4 Seasons aren't an official option (or even a standard fitment on YO for the UK).

Shame though that eg Vector 4 Seasons aren't an official option (or even a standard fitment on YO for the UK).

 

I can't think of any "non specifically sporting" car manufacturer that ties itself to one make of tyre, so I doubt that Skoda will do that with Goodyear.

 

And a question to our European members: if you buy a Yeti in the winter, does it come on winter tyres? (Although I think I know the answer!!)