My brand new Yeti Outdoor 1.2 DSG makes a loud droning noise between 1200 and 1400 RPM. After much complaining and test driving another like for like car which makes the same noise this is the outcome. Skoda UK and the retailer agree this noise exists. They say it is a "characteristic" of the model and is the sound of the engine labouring because the Euro 6 mapping has made the gear change so late that it causes the engine to labour before changing. This has been caused to assist in lowering emissions to comply with new euro regulations.

No one at Skoda or the retailers want to know about the problem. This is not a characteristic but a fault that they are not prepared to fix. They were quite happy for me to spend £18000 on a vehicle that I hate driving. I owned a 60 plate Yeti of the same spec previously and that was fine, no drone just mapped to Euro 4.

Any prospective Yeti Outdoor buyers out there beware the abominable Yeti.!!!!! Or buy some ear plugs!!

That ties in with our experience with the latest 1.2 Pug (308) which is in third, dead cold, in less than 100m including a 90* corner ....staggering along at ~ 1000 revs.

What they do for emissions these days!

or buy a manual.

or buy a manual.

Or override it in 'sports' mode if you lose sleep over it.

I'd be interested on how you get on with this, I too have just ordered the 1.2 DSG Euro 6.......and their response is worrying.

Running an engine under load at 1200 is putting a strain on everything in the drive train.

There must be some mapping that can be changed to make the gearbox change down earlier and up later, perhaps by an after market gearbox specialist.

 

On ours (1.6) the reverberations improved considerably at low revs after a couple of thousand miles that I take it was due to the DMF bedding in and doing it's job better.

Edited 16 June, 201511 yr by Urrell

My brand new Yeti Outdoor 1.2 DSG makes a loud droning noise between 1200 and 1400 RPM. After much complaining and test driving another like for like car which makes the same noise this is the outcome. Skoda UK and the retailer agree this noise exists. They say it is a "characteristic" of the model and is the sound of the engine labouring because the Euro 6 mapping has made the gear change so late that it causes the engine to labour before changing. ...

So this is the new 110PS TSi? I've test driven the 105PS TSi and found it pretty smooth, although one really wants the 150PS 1.4 in a Yeti (maybe that will happen in the Mk2)...

What speeds do you get this issue, and how is the rest of the Yeti experience, may I ask?

Welcome to the forum.

 

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What road speed or gear is the car / DSG at when you are at 1,200-1,400 rpm.

Is this as you crawl along in traffic, or starting off and in each gear, going up the gears , or how and when?

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How many miles has your Yeti done,

ie are the Brakes now run in with the newness and tightness off them. and off the tyres and drivetrain?

 

As to those that suggest a manual, you bought one, an Automated Manual.

 

If Skoda / VW Designers / Engineers have introduced to an established vehicle that has been updated noises and 

characteristics that are unacceptable then maybe do not take the word of Dealership Employees.

Often Tommy. (Deaf Dumb & Blind.)

 

Contact Skoda UK Customer Services at Milton Keynes, get a Customer Services Manager to get back to you,

& they can arrange an actual Technical Department Employee to see about arranging a person with an 

interest in Factory Build and Design Failings and unacceptable introduction of Characteristic Noises and Behaviour.

Maybe they can get some of Alasdair Stewart Skoda UK Brand Managers After Sales TEam to look at DEalerships 

that say, 'They all do that Sir / Madam'.

Before yet another vehicle from the Volkswagen Group gets featured on BBC1 Watchdog.

(what the Dealership Staff are saying sounds like what Fiat UK Said about the Fiat 500.

Blaming new Emission Rules and Mapping.)

Edited 18 June, 201511 yr by goneoffSKi

My manual 1.2 Tsi (105) will drone when at 1200 in 6th gear but that is to be expected. Move it up to 1400 and all is quiet. I would have thought the same to occur with DSG, but it should have changed down or change down once it senses the incorrect loading.

 

and as stated before let us not forget with all these new emissions, it not some new electronic wizardry its fuel settings.

Edited 18 June, 201511 yr by DonjSZ5

DonjSZ5,

Do you drive a Yeti with DSG or is it a Manual?

Can you explain how you get a DSG to drive any distance at 1,200 or even at 1,400 rpm in other gears without it changing

to the most economic gear.

And why in 6th at that choice of throttle and speed you should have a Droning noise to endure ?

It has no Lock Up, so is it when in Manual?

 

it is not a CVT box like some previous VWG / Audi boxes

 

It is electronic wizardry.

It is a Mechatronic Control Unit, a ECU and Mapping and a Automated Manual Twin Dry or Wet Clutch Gearbox.

They have had the Mapping Wrong before, and clutch packs and the Synthetic oils in the Dry Clutch Boxes 

that is now changed to Mineral Oil,

so ever developing technology and resolving issues, so always worth having issues passed to Skoda UK 

and Skoda CZ,

or they say, 'We have never heard of that before',  usually because Dealership staff say. 'They all do that'.

Edited 18 June, 201511 yr by goneoffSKi

DonjSZ5,

Do you drive a Yeti with DSG or is it a Manual?

Can you explain how you get a DSG to drive any distance at 1,200 or even at 1,400 rpm in other gears without it changing

to the most economic gear.

And why in 6th at that choice of throttle and speed you should have a Droning noise to endure ?

It has no Lock Up, so is it when in Manual?

 

it is not a CVT box like some previous VWG / Audi boxes

 

It is electronic wizardry.

It is a Mechatronic Control Unit, a ECU and Mapping and a Automated Manual Twin Dry or Wet Clutch Gearbox.

They have had the Mapping Wrong before, and clutch packs and the Synthetic oils in the Dry Clutch Boxes 

that is now changed to Mineral Oil,

so ever developing technology and resolving issues, so always worth having issues passed to Skoda UK 

and Skoda CZ,

or they say, 'We have never heard of that before',  usually because Dealership staff say. 'They all do that'.

Manual as stated in post.

No, other than use TIP.

From day one of petrol engines its all to do with timing of the spark. Not sure you can change that very much. The rest is to do with ramming more or less fuel down its throat with a turbo.

Skoda UK don't know what an ISOFIX child seat is let alone something as technical as an MCU, ECU or auto clutches.

From day one it is about timing, air, fuel and spark and still is.  

 Diesels can do with timing, Fuel, Air and Heat.

 

As to the other points and Skoda UK or Skoda Technicians and Fitters or other employees you could be right.

but then there are some around that are familiar with Basic and advanced mechanical engineering thankfully.

Edited 18 June, 201511 yr by goneoffSKi

Just a couple of thoughts, perhaps it's the tightness of a brand new engine? Also, is it worth trying a couple of tanks of premium fuel (Shell V Power Nitro or the like). Just to experiment.