Yes I did. All the US dealers I tried said no to outside America. Their pricing was a lot cheaper which is unfortunate and frustrating 

Which country is @PPW in?

Sydney Australia

On 11/03/2019 at 21:45, Freestayl said:

Hi guys, this is my first post here on the forum, but I have been a regular visitor for a while. I have a question regarding Yeti reliability.

 

I have a 2013 2.0 tdi Yeti with 110hp, 4x4, and I have done approximately 120k miles. I like the car as it is very versatile, has a good fuel consumption and its 4x4 has proven to be very useful as I live in an country which has a lot of steep hills (such as the Alps) and during the winter we get a lot of snow. Anyway, back to my question: Until now I have not had any serious problem, besides changing an ABS module (for the cost of 1500 eur) last year and regular servicing which includes changing the cambelts, waterpump and other must do stuff.

 

I would like to ask you guys, who drive similar car and have more miles on the clock that I have, what are your experiences with Yeti's reliability, if you have any serious problems, what are servicing costs?

 

I am asking this because I do not know if I should sell the car and get newer one or if I should just keep it and drive it until it brakes down completely ...

 

I have asked the same question Honest John, who I admire a lot (https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/) and got an answer from him to sell the car as soon as possible.

 

thank you for your thoughts and good luck on the roads!

 

 

Coming back to your original question. Honest John is right, the design life of a modern car is about 6-7 years and bearing in mind your mileage you are likely to be faced with accelerating costs over the next few years and the anxiety of poor reliability. Take the risk of you want but sensible thing to do is to replace ASAP. 

My experience with 213,000klm on my 2014 diesel yeti goes completely against honest johns view. I do believe cars are made to be turned over more regularly these days. Apart from services, a clock spring and on my third set of tyres I have had no issues. Averages 6lt per 100klms. I forgot to mention one of my day running lamps is blown and I have replaced two headlight globes also. Car is driven on a lot of dusty gravel roads and good highways. Probably on about 20% city driving. I think a lot of it has to do with how you drive it. It also does not make financial sense for me. My car is worth about $10,000 (5,000 pounds). To buy another car is going to be around $35,000-40,000.  I guess if a minor component went I would need to reassess. 

11 hours ago, Meyannos said:

My experience with 213,000klm on my 2014 diesel yeti goes completely against honest johns view. I do believe cars are made to be turned over more regularly these days. Apart from services, a clock spring and on my third set of tyres I have had no issues. Averages 6lt per 100klms. I forgot to mention one of my day running lamps is blown and I have replaced two headlight globes also. Car is driven on a lot of dusty gravel roads and good highways. Probably on about 20% city driving. I think a lot of it has to do with how you drive it. It also does not make financial sense for me. My car is worth about $10,000 (5,000 pounds). To buy another car is going to be around $35,000-40,000.  I guess if a minor component went I would need to reassess. 

Exactly, you have been fortunate and hopefully you will get many more happy miles. However, the real risk of something major going wrong increases exponentially with age/miles and then your car is worthless as the repair costs more than the car is worth - you are also left carless and £5,000 in the hole! 

Honest John was being honest - if you can you are likely to be far better off financially swapping an older car (6+ years) for a newer model and avoiding the potentially total loss. At 6+ years depreciation has more or less plateaued so is no longer the major impact it has on value of younger cars.

Honest John might want to talk about the Elephant in the room.

 

The having a Euro 5 TDI with the Defeat Device that came free with the car and no Emissions Fix carried out so the car you have, 

or the Euro 6 emissions car with SCR / AdBlue which you might not want to have as a keeper.   

Euro 5 engines usually fall foul of the Low Emissions Zones are starting to pop up around the country.

6 hours ago, Skoffski said:

Honest John might want to talk about the Elephant in the room

He has, frequently.

The court case here is still dragging on. Maybe by the end of the year we will have a decision. Very frustrating. Haven’t accepted Skoda’s software update offer in lieu of class action.