Hello again Chaps (& and Ladies of course)

I sold my second Yeti because the DSG was 'grunting' and could not be bothered to mess about arguing with Skoda over a warranty claim.

I (very stupidly~ as it turns out) went and spent £26k on  Mitsubishi management car . An Outlander PHEV. 6 months old with 3k miles.

This was last November.

I thought it would be fun to try something different and that I would enjoy the technology. WRONG!!

I persevered for 6 months and it drove me mad. Although very cheap to run. Zero road tax at the moment, local driving with 3 battery charges total cost £3. for a week and 40mpg when running on hybrid mode. I admit I only put 15 gallons of petrol in it over the 6 months & 3000 miles. But their claim of up to 148mpg is b****x in real time driving

 

BUT. I got fed up with having to go out in the (often) Peeing rain to disconnect the cable at 22.00hrs.

Most owners on the forum are obsessed with how many miles one can get out of a battery charge and I admit to becoming ensnared in this. It is such a complicated car and Mitsubishi have spent so much thought on the EV drive system that the car falls short in other respects.

The build quality is not good and I nicknamed it the 'Origami' car as the body work is built out of very thin 'tin'.

So here we are again, as you can see, to be now spending £110 a year on RFL and doing about 38mpg (Yeti has only done 500 miles so is still very stiff) round town. I really did not warm to the Outlander , oh & I lost £4800 in 6 months!

But I am so much happier to be back in my beloved Yeti and the upside is that The Skoda Dealer gave me £2005 and the Yeti in p/x for the Mitsubishi AND I bought at just the right time as Skoda U.K. have a deal on until tomorrow whereby, when you buy a Skoda approved second hand (Skoda) you get a fuel card loaded with £500 of FREE PETROL and TWO FREE services. 

Next purchase will be a KODIAK, as SOON as they are available. Can't wait! :clap:

 New Yeti below.

Every hybrid seem to claim ridiculous mpg figures.. id love to know what is in the test set up tha lets them claim that sort of thing..

its the real world crap mpg that puts me off them still as a real possibility for an upgrade.

The test is the same for ordinary cars, that is the problem.

I think it is run over 50 miles. The hybrid starts off with a full battery and (in the case of the mitsubishi PHEV) covers about 27 miles (Claimed 'UP TO" 32) purely on the battery. Then sticking to hybrid mode for the remainder.

In hybrid the engine only kicks in occasionally. . Put a bit of charge into the battery/cuts out/ battery depletes/ ICE starts up again and so on. So over the remaining 23 miles or so the ICE is probably only running for about half that amount. THEREFORE that is how they get 44g/Km and therefore zero road tax. The UP TO 148mpg is purely depended on efficient use of the regenerating force controlled by 'flippy~flappy' paddles.

My Vet has one and took it over the French alps and said he got a genuine 900mpg. But in this country with a non mountainous terrain I found a true overall mpg over 3000 miles was 53.5. Which still is not bad for a two ton brick!

The only reasons I got rid of it was all the faffing about charging (see above) and the poor build quality. When the hybrid Kodiaq comes out I may well give it a chance at least half the problem will be solved! The build quality. But if it costs over £40 k, no chance as our beloved Chancellor will charge you £450p.a. road tax!!

Edited 18 April, 201610 yr by Skodanut2