For those of you that own a 4x4 Yeti, have you ever wondered how much or how little your car is actually running in 4 wheel drive while you're casually driving around? Well wonder no more as I plugged in our Autel in once again and recorded our drive as Alana and myself went about our normal weekend business. I plucked out a few of the clips and talked through what I personally thought was going on at different points in the video.

Tyres fitted very relevant.

It would be good to be repeating in same conditions but something like the ECO Bias OEM tyres you get and then Upgraded tyres as some might fit, All Season / All Weather / Wet weather tyres, or on All Terrains on Road.

In the video above, we had Falken Wildpeak AT3Wa all terrain tyres fitted which are 215/65/16. I'd more than happily carry out back-to-back tests, I would just need a testing ground to keep the route equal, a tyre machine to change the tyres and for a tyre supplier to lend me all different tyres to test 😁. The videos main purpose is just to give people the idea of what there car is doing at different road scenarios. 😀 But I do agree that running different tyres with different conditions could make for a fascinating video to see how hard or little the Haldex does work. 😀

My Testing ground overs the years was my local roads, different seasons / weather, and also my offroad outings, a tyro can be very different according to the weather / ground conditions.

Different tyres but on rims, change wheels / tyres for different outings or seasons.

Some tyres were and are Jacks of All trades, kind of like what you are running in the video.

3 hours ago, Scott_4x4 said:

Hi @Chua 👋. I love hearing from other owners that have modified their Yeti. Hopefully a few more Yeti or just fellow VAG owners in general will come out of the woodwork with their off-road or overlanding cars so we can all share ideas with things that work or things that just really don't work 😄. Your car looks great and I'm always going to be jealous of your near white sandy beaches you have over there 😎. Although I hear that the corrugated roads are not too enjoyable 🙈😁. Have you got any pictures of the side awning and shower awning setup? Alana's idea is to slowly turn our Yeti into something overland spec over time 😀.

So far driving around WA. I’ve not come across many corrugated bitumen roads. Some dirt roads yes but rarely tarmac.

I’ll take more pictures of the setup over the weekend when I get back home.

3 hours ago, Scott_4x4 said:

Hi @Chua 👋. I love hearing from other owners that have modified their Yeti. Hopefully a few more Yeti or just fellow VAG owners in general will come out of the woodwork with their off-road or overlanding cars so we can all share ideas with things that work or things that just really don't work 😄. Your car looks great and I'm always going to be jealous of your near white sandy beaches you have over there 😎. Although I hear that the corrugated roads are not too enjoyable 🙈😁. Have you got any pictures of the side awning and shower awning setup? Alana's idea is to slowly turn our Yeti into something overland spec over time 😀.

Between Alana and myself, we are part of a Facebook group called the Muddy Freelander Group. The group is run by a company called MuddyMods that specialise in Freelander parts and modifications. Each year they put on an annual event called Muddy Weekender for anyone and everyone on the group to meetup.

Not only that, MuddyMods hire exclusive use of both of Billings off road courses to use for the weekend. For anyone that has been to the Billing off road show, it's that place and those courses 😁.

Seeing as we don't live too far away from the event, we took both the Freelander along and also the Yeti. We were super lucky that on the Friday, Chell and Warren from MuddyMods let us tag along as they setup the course on the Friday evening ready for the weekends action.

Alana's grown very fond of the Yeti and the course overall is a bit much for our Yeti in its current form. That didn't stop us having a little go at 1 or 2 bits of the course as we went around 😁.

As a side note, if you want to see the video we have made from the weekend then give it a watch: https://youtu.be/4FQjQmPYdqE

Edited 2 October, 20252 Oct by Scott_4x4

A few pictures from our weekend...

If you squint a little, our Yeti almost fits in 😁.

Our friend made us a Yeti for our Yeti! 😁

Yeti chilling out in the Yeti 😊.

Don't leave a white car unattended when there are muddy people around 😂.

After many miles of happy motoring the engine management light has shown itself on the dash of our Skoda Yeti! After a quick scan with our Autel AP200 Bluetooth diagnostics reader, it showed us the code P067100 and the description "Cylinder 1 Glow Plug Circuit".

We decided not to tackle this job ourselves for the fear of twisting the head off of 1 of the glow plugs and having an even worse problem on our hands 😄. Instead we called out Taylor Made Tuning, a local mobile mechanic to do the job for us.

A couple of notes, do your research before buying glow plugs for a Yeti. I cannot be sure but I think the EA189 (non-adblue engines) have 4 normal glow plugs fitted. The newer EA288 (adblue engines) have 3 normal glow plugs in cylinders 1, 2 and 4 with cylinder 3 having a pressure sensing glow plug fitted. Please double check this before taking it as gospel.

Before doing the job, take the car out for a drive to heat up the engine. This will aid the removal of the glow plugs.

The glow plugs that were removed which we believe to be fitted from the factory were Bosch with the following information...

0 250 403 007
FRANCE
VW AG 03L 963319 (RB3) 4.4V 2 04 04 2014

The glow plugs that we got fitted were also Bosch with the following information on the box...
0 250 403 009-EAF
DURATERM HS 194
955 573
Made in France

Here's a few pictures for you:

Taking the channel in a slightly different direction while the winter months are upon us and doing a series of videos of some of the features on the Skoda Yeti 😊. I admit that I have a face fit for radio and I'm not host material, but until our budget grows substantially, then it's my ugly mug in front of the camera for these 😄.

If there's any other features on the Yeti that you're particularly proud of or just think, now that's a cool feature, then leave it in this thread and I might include it in a future video 😁.

Another video from our fascinating features series went live over on our channel recently 😊. To most of you this feature will not come as a surprise but I still wanted to highlight it as it's one of my favourite features on the Yeti 😁. If you have a couple of minutes to spare then enjoy seeing me having a teddy bears picnic with the aid of the easy to remove rear seats 😀.

The third installment of my fascinating features series went live over on our YouTube channel last week. In this one it features the drinks cooler built into the Yeti, how a leaky shock isn't always a bad thing and how you can close the windows without even being in the car 😊. Enjoy!

P.s, this one may contain some BAFTA award winning acting within it 😄.

If someone had said that I'd be making a 15 minute long video dedicated to the Yeti's washer wiper system, I'd have told them that I must have totally run out of all content! 😁 But I'm actually surprised just how many small and neat features Skoda have packed into the system that many people will have no idea about 😀.

It's been about a year or so since we fitted the 16" Tuff Torque steel wheels and Falken Wildpeak AT3Wa all terrain tyres so I thought it was a good time to do a little review video 😊. One point that I do go heavy into is that this modification isn't just relevant to all terrain tyres. There are plenty of 215/65/16 road tyres which could be of interest to a lot of you on our pot holed ridden roads.