Most definitely attracted to a used Skoda Yeti as my next car, but with £5000 in the pot Im wondering if anyone could recommend at what sort high mileage  should I be running away? There is a 2015 on auto-trader for a frugal £5500....  but fightingly 146000k  !  I am sure even a no wife, no children, happy Mr Uber driver isn't doing a 1000 miles  a week!!!!  Any thoughts on were to draw the line guys on high mileage? Much appreciated guys. 

How much money have you left in the bank after the purchase.........is probably the answer.

Edited 17 January, 20197 yr by Ryeman

Best say if you want a Petrol or Diesel and Manual or Petrol. 

What power of engine, lower or higher?

There is a guy on another Yeti forum whose diesel Yeti is approaching 200k miles. Still gong strong.

Mine has just clicked over 150k miles, but is a 2009 model so the bodywork etc. is a little rough. Engine and mechanically, everything is fine though.

10 hours ago, neilybs6369 said:

There is a 2015 on auto-trader for a frugal £5500....  but fightingly 146000k  !  I am sure even a no wife, no children, happy Mr Uber driver isn't doing a 1000 miles  a week!!!! 

Feasible.

 

Up to fairly recently I would see a Yeti taxi that operated on the M8 and M74 around South Lanarkshire and Glasgow. 

 

Also when based down South, I hardly used my vehicle midweek, but my weekend commute home was around 900 miles. 

 

 

11 hours ago, neilybs6369 said:

Most definitely attracted to a used Skoda Yeti as my next car, but with £5000 in the pot Im wondering if anyone could recommend at what sort high mileage  should I be running away? There is a 2015 on auto-trader for a frugal £5500....  but fightingly 146000k  !  I am sure even a no wife, no children, happy Mr Uber driver isn't doing a 1000 miles  a week!!!!  Any thoughts on were to draw the line guys on high mileage? Much appreciated guys. 

 

I have a taxi driver friend who racked up over 300,000 miles in an Octavia. 1000 miles a week was not unusual, especially if he rented it to another driver when he wasn't working.

Thanks guy's, thats eased the fear a bit. My first choice would be the 1.6 diesel or the 2015 onwards which is claiming to do the same MPG as the older 1.6 TDi. And same tax..

The thing with Taxi's / Airport Transport is that ones doing high mileage might be running all day with hot engines and not lots of cold starts.

Maybe even sitting idling during day / night shifts, so still hot engines.

 

Taxis with Euro 5 & 6 Diesel engines that are sitting idling on ranks etc might not be so long lived, might be having DPF or EGR issues, 

might have 'stripped DPF's.

*Might not have the Emissions system still fitted as it left the factory.*

 

Then the Elephant in the room with Euro 5 TDI's is 'The Fix',  has it been done or not.

As to early 1.2 TSI high milers, Chain Tensioners.,,, & Turbos / Actuators.

 

So research is important, Service & Warranty history, and condition condition condition.

Edited 18 January, 20197 yr by Skoffski

Cheers.

 

I would avoid the 1.6 if it has had the emmisons fix. Too many likely issues and it definately affects driveability.

 

At that sort of miles, 150k it would anyway soon need a new egr valve DPF etc, all expensive items with a fixed life.

 

The euro 5 110ps and 140ps, are also supsect and would also need the same works above, even if never had the fix. If you can find a 170ps, they are less affected.

 

Basically any modern diesel of any make is likely to need about £2k plus of works at around 150k for the emmision equipment.

Edited 18 January, 20197 yr by kenfowler3966

1 hour ago, kenfowler3966 said:

The euro 5 110ps and 140ps, are also supsect and would also need the same works above, even if never had the fix. If you can find a 170ps, they are less affected.

 

Are you saying the CR110/CR140  engines are more likely to have EGR/DPF issues than the CR170? What's the reason for this as I don't think I've come across it before.

 

1 hour ago, kenfowler3966 said:

Basically any modern diesel of any make is likely to need about £2k plus of works at around 150k for the emmision equipment.

 

That completely depends on how it's been driven and looked after...

Thanks so much guys this is really helpful...

 

The 170 is reportedly much less impacted by the emissions fix than the lower power cars, so less likely in the future to need egr and dpf repairs due to this.