Next they'll move on to the sound deadening ......not good.

How the other half live!!

 

I live in a small flat attached to a Care/Nursing Home, where I look after my 100 year old mother, with a little 'assistance'.  So-called Assisted Living!!

 

We have the use of the Home facilities, which means that we are not isolated.  There is a nice Dining Room with good food when we need it. 

 

Always someone around to chat to in the Home, whilst we have the independence of our own flat.

 

Not perfect - but a whole lot better than when we were on our own in London and no-one wanted to know (including family!). 

 

My mother says its no fun getting old :no: :no:

I had to ask, as a while back this forum was plagued by someone called " Offnote " and some of your posts brought back memories. Unless you have a faulty battery, there should be no need to worry about changing it for four or five years. My original lasted till last year and was replaced with a Varta E44.

Some very odd posts have come from this op and I have wondered for some time by the nature of the questions if this is a wind up as most of the soppy questions can be answered in RFM and if the vehicle is a few months old then it has the Skoda breakdown warranty so they would attend and inform of any battery problem,sorry if i appear a little sceptical .

I've gone from sceptical to paranoid

There are lots of complaints about the low specification batteries fitted to other Skoda's outside of the Yeti forum.

 

Not all will be the fault of the battery or the car, but there are simply too many for it to be a coincidence.

There are lots of complaints about the low specification batteries fitted to other Skoda's outside of the Yeti forum.

 

When I sold my Fabia this year at 10½ years old and about 90,000 miles it was still on it's original battery and had never seen a battery charger.

No doubt there are Skoda's that are older than yours and still on their original battery.

 

But there are also lots of Skoda's who's batteries have failed within warranty.

 

At almost 11 years old the battery in your Fabia will be very different to those fitted on today's models.

 

The electrical demands of a modern car compared to an older Fabia are also much greater.

 

For what it's worth my 13 year old Peugeot 306 with over 150,000 miles was also sold with it's original battery, incidentally a Varta.

Edited 14 December, 201510 yr by silver1011

 

The electrical demands of a modern car compared to an older Fabia are also much greater.

 

The Fabia was a 1.4 16v Elegance Estate with much the same electrical equipment as my 2015 Yeti Elegance.

The batteries Skoda use today don't differ by specification. Therefore a car with stop/start, heated seats, coming/leaving home headlights, heated front windscreen etc. has the same battery as the basic model without most of these features.

 

So whether a battery will fail or not depends on a number of factors.

 

The most noticeable one is the low CCA (Cold Cranking Amps) of the standard fit batteries Skoda use.

Edited 14 December, 201510 yr by silver1011

 

The most noticeable one is the low CCA (Cold Cranking Amps) of the standard fit batteries Skoda use.

The Greenline and since May where all Yeti's now have braking energy recovery etc the stored battery power and CCA is a lot higher than those without it.

Some very odd posts have come from this op and I have wondered for some time by the nature of the questions if this is a wind up as most of the soppy questions can be answered in RFM and if the vehicle is a few months old then it has the Skoda breakdown warranty so they would attend and inform of any battery problem,sorry if i appear a little sceptical .

I've just looked at several more posts from the OP, and I am convinced we are being subjected to a clever wind-up.

^^^^^^^. Thats why I commented on some of the other posts by this person to bring them up to date and am surprised that some others have not picked up on this amount of OFFNOTE.

When I sold my Fabia this year at 10½ years old and about 90,000 miles it was still on it's original battery and had never seen a battery charger.

obviously not enough 'toys'.

The Greenline and since May where all Yeti's now have braking energy recovery etc the stored battery power and CCA is a lot higher than those without it.

 

Interesting, that isn't the case on the Superb, the MkIII Octavia (with stop/start) or the Mk7 Golf, of which it is widely documented that the OEM batteries are of a poor specification.

 

The only stipulation for models with stop/start is the battery needs to be either EFB or AGM.

 

One other point to note is that MQB models with stop / start and regenerative braking have advanced monitoring of the battery (state-of-charge is visible in Maxidot), if a higher capacity battery is fitted then the car needs reprogramming to tell it that the expected battery power has increased.

VW is developing a new body structure around 'flat batteries' - a pointer to the future......post U.S. 'clean diesel'.

I've just looked at several more posts from the OP, and I am convinced we are being subjected to a clever wind-up.

also don't ladies tend to buy the S range and not the Monty if very little driving is intended.

Some very odd posts have come from this op and I have wondered for some time by the nature of the questions if this is a wind up as most of the soppy questions can be answered in RFM and if the vehicle is a few months old then it has the Skoda breakdown warranty so they would attend and inform of any battery problem,sorry if i appear a little sceptical .

Soppy?  Moi?  My last car lasted 17 years....2.00 auto Primera with absolutely no problems.  Brake pads once and tyres once.  Did 41,000 miles.

 

I deem myself a VERY good driver and even know where to put the petrol in.  So, soppy? :clap: :clap:

^^^^^^^. Thats why I commented on some of the other posts by this person to bring them up to date and am surprised that some others have not picked up on this amount of OFFNOTE.

Now I realise why you are called Sad!!  Also cynical!!

 

I bought the Monte because it was a VERY good deal.  I need a powerful car to draw a horse trailer and a friend has a Yeti and said it would do the job.  I bought it unseen from a Company norf of the Watford Gap.  The car cost less than a regular Yeti with 10,000 on the clock from my local dealer (rip-off merchants) and it only had 50miles on the clock - showroom model.  Its very smart and hopefully will attend many horseshows and deal with the sometimes 'iffy' ground.

 

I can assure you that I am real.......soppy? ..... well, that's debatable.  Female certainly.  Interested in the mechanics of cars - definitely not!!  Just interested enough in wanting to keep it going in a reliable manner.  Yes, its a rare day when it does more than 15 miles, but that's MY choice!!  Sometimes, just goes up the road.  For G-ds sake, its just a car and has to do what I want!!

 

My main criteria was a car that my 100 year old mother can get in and out of fairly easily and will draw the trailer and the Yeti meets this goal.

 

I really know nothing about cars and only want to find out on a 'need to know basis'. 

Sad,cynical,............yes maybe and still not convinced,Skoda has a 3 year breakdown cover ,no need to call the Rac who would inform of any battery problems,if you can research batteries you can RFM.

I don't know whether Twoladies is Offnote in a new guise or not but if it is then he(?) has mellowed because although some of the posts are a little "odd" (and let's be honest Twoladies can't claim to have cornered the market for those) she isn't being derogatory about the Yeti or intended to cause offence and upset on the forum. I can understand the logic of Twoladies car choice if she needs to pull a trailer but even if she didn't and just wanted it to pootle down to the shops and back it's her money and her choice. I'm sure there are plenty of owners driving around in the more powerful 4x4 varients , having convinced themselves that a 1.2 TSi just wouldn't be up to their needs, even though it never tows, never goes off road and lives on the tyres it arrived on all year round. (I recall MarieK and Snowy and her assurance that with winter tyres and a bit of care she had no trouble getting around Skye and beyond with its 1.2 TSi engine and 2 wheel drive which was pretty convincing testimony to the Yeti's capabilities even in this basic setup).

 

I've followed Two ladies various post and the responses and "quirky" they might be but I think if you look at them from a "I just want it to start and stop and get me from A to B" perspective then they are not unbelievable. Personally I find the arrangement for the interior lights less than intuitive and whether the switch is up or down isn't that obvious and as for calling out the RAC rather than Skoda's own service, perhaps if Twoladies has always been with the RAC (and with a 17 year old Primera I'd want breakdown cover) either she's happy with the service and wants to stick with it or maybe is still within the contract she's paid for so why not use it?

 

I actually sometimes find new members posting "silly" questions quite useful - because I've been wondering the same thing myself but with nearly three years of ownership now I can't bring myself to ask. So I'd say let Twoladies ask whatever she wishes and anyone who thinks it's really Offnote, well you can always ignore them.

 

But come on Twoladies, lets see the colour of your money - with a Freedom membership; like Del Boy says "You know it makes sense". (Ask your mum if you are too young to know who Del Boy was and, no, it's not another forum member. Well, not the one I mean).

Twoladies is most definitely NOT Offnote!!

The English is too quirky and has too many British idioms to be him.

 

I am quite happy to believe that SHE is real.

I suggest that if anyone thinks otherwise they report it to the Mods who have ways of checking.

Quote from two ladies

I deem myself a VERY good driver and even know where to put the petrol in. So, soppy (from a previous post you say a battery for"DSG 170 BHP" which is a DIESEL so even if you where to put the petrol in it might not help)

Edited 16 December, 201510 yr by Sad555

My wife often goes to the "petrol station" to fill her car with diesel.

 

I think the use of the word 'petrol' is simply used as an alternative to 'fuel'.

I doubt if two ladies can remember "off note" and I don't believe his postings are now accessible .

 

I personally found his postings that stupid they became almost amusing.

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In my opinion two ladies is asking the sort of questions a typical female (my wife ) would ask and good luck to her, keep them coming they brighten a dull day.

 

Hope I have not offended to many technical minded female members of which I believe we have quite a few.

My wife often goes to the "petrol station" to fill her car with diesel.

 

I think the use of the word 'petrol' is simply used as an alternative to 'fuel'.

 

As does my wife!!

 

I cannot understand "Sad555"'s continual harping over this.