The only 16" wheels on offer from Skoda are the Helix design (Forrest being retired), I could have had those on my new Yeti but prefer the Moon design alloys I currently have so decided to swap with the Origami on the new Yeti. I find the Origami overly styled for my taste.

 

Why did you go for the 16" instead of the Original 17" as standard?

Why did you go for the 16" instead of the Original 17" as standard?

Seems you joined us in January 2013 - don't you remember the endless (well, almost!) 'discussion' that was still rumbling on then :peek: ?

Why did you go for the 16" instead of the Original 17" as standard?

Without wishing to stir up old arguments, I kept the 16" wheels because they provide a much smoother drive. The one criticism pointed at the Yeti is its poor unsettled ride, 16" wheels solve that by providing more absorbent 60 profile tyres on 16" wheels.

All matters of opinion of course!

Without wishing to stir up old arguments, I kept the 16" wheels because they provide a much smoother drive. The one criticism pointed at the Yeti is its poor unsettled ride, 16" wheels solve that by providing more absorbent 60 profile tyres on 16" wheels.

All matters of opinion of course!

So you're not a hoon either, I take it )))

So you're not a hoon either, I take it )))

??????????????? hoon??????????????

??????????????? hoon??????????????

Hoon is apparently a term used in Australia and New Zealand, A term used to describe, mostly driving a vehicle at high speed and pulling manoeuvres likely to cause excitement and cheers from onlookers.

It was a joke among old farts predominantly))))$

Well then I am not a hoon! Not sure if I ever was but probably in my late teens when petrol was less than 23p a gallon. Now I find I get places in the same time as "hoons" but in much more comfort and using much less fuel. I guess it is called experience but maintaining a good consistent speed by reading the road and traffic serves me well. 

Well then I am not a hoon! Not sure if I ever was but probably in my late teens when petrol was less than 23p a gallon. Now I find I get places in the same time as "hoons" but in much more comfort and using much less fuel. I guess it is called experience but maintaining a good consistent speed by reading the road and traffic serves me well.

Now, are you an older fart than me, that has converted £sd into 23p, as I can remember filling up at 48 1/2 old pence a gallon ! ?

Now, are you an older fart than me, that has converted £sd into 23p, as I can remember filling up at 48 1/2 old pence a gallon ! ?

Come on, lads!  That was only a year or two ago.  Wasn't it :wonder: ?

Come on, lads!  That was only a year or two ago.  Wasn't it :wonder: ?

I worked in a petrol station in summer holidays. I remember it was a big deal when petrol broke the 5 shillings barrier - over a £1 for 4 gallons, scandalous! Ah, how I lusted after a Daimler Dart and the (politically incorrect warning) 'totty' that drove it, checked her oil for free at every fill up! Now where is my zimmer frame and why did I come here????

Well then I am not a hoon! Not sure if I ever was but probably in my late teens when petrol was less than 23p a gallon. Now I find I get places in the same time as "hoons" but in much more comfort and using much less fuel. I guess it is called experience but maintaining a good consistent speed by reading the road and traffic serves me well.

.....and not using the brakes helps greatly

I worked in a petrol station in summer holidays. I remember it was a big deal when petrol broke the 5 shillings barrier - over a £1 for 4 gallons, scandalous! Ah, how I lusted after a Daimler Dart and the (politically incorrect warning) 'totty' that drove it, checked her oil for free at every fill up! Now where is my zimmer frame and why did I come here????

5s a gallon is the price I remember when filling up dads Vauxhall Victor.

It still cost a weeks wages for me to fill it up though.

Hoon is apparently a term used in Australia and New Zealand, A term used to describe, mostly driving a vehicle at high speed and pulling manoeuvres likely to cause excitement and cheers from onlookers.

You rang?.

One bloke got killed when he fell off the back of a flatbed doing stunts........!

Not a Joke Dorris!

Authorised madness!

I worked in a petrol station in summer holidays. I remember it was a big deal when petrol broke the 5 shillings barrier - over a £1 for 4 gallons, scandalous! Ah, how I lusted after a Daimler Dart and the (politically incorrect warning) 'totty' that drove it, checked her oil for free at every fill up! Now where is my zimmer frame and why did I come here????

In the late seventies out here 1L went up to $1 (10 shillings).....I thought it was the end of the world.

I'm claiming I was a kid back then, though.

I expect this is what I will do.  The Ateca is not much bigger, unlike the Kodiaq which is ruled out for that reason.  I'm happy with my Skoda dealer but don't really know much about SEAT dealers.

 

From surveys shown in UK car magazines,  Skoda and Lexus seem to have the best dealers and Seat and French car dealers seem to have the worse. The new head of Seat has acknowledged that their dealerships need to improve.

5s a gallon is the price I remember.....

4/6d a gallon plus 1d a shot for the redex when I used to fill up my Rover 90. Happy times on that huge front bench seat :giggle:

From surveys shown in UK car magazines,  Skoda and Lexus seem to have the best dealers and Seat and French car dealers seem to have the worse. The new head of Seat has acknowledged that their dealerships need to improve.

The dealer I've bought my last few cars from covers many marques including the VW's, Audis and Skoda that I've bought.

Unsurprisingly I've found their customer service to be pretty much on a par though their premises for Audi and VW are better, not that that's very important.

When you ask Skoda drivers and owners on a forum like Briskoda which is one of the biggest or not the biggest Skoda Community how many took part in these Customer Surveys 

with the results not many say that they did.

My dealer has Skoda and Seat on the same site, but having taken a friend to pick up his repaired Seat the other week, the attitude between the two is marked. I wandered around the Seat one for over 10 minutes before someone spoke to me, the receptionist is stuck at the back in the dark, there is no free coffee machine and the "customers lounge" was grubby, untidy and not at all welcoming, plus there was a distinct lack of publicity material.

Good model choice though and after sales care and Service plans etc. 

Maybe not so many Skoda UK employees filling out surveys online and on paper though.