Skoda Yeti TDi 4x4

[RS Grant]

ST565NP said:

Do you know which dimension tyres are on the car ? My father's 2011 1.2 TSI uses 215/60/16 but Skoda recommends 205/55/16 for winter tyres ( so that you can use snow chains) . I like the idea because these 205 are much cheaper, but the diameter difference is 13-14% which is really too much - it should be max 3%.

So, does someone uses 205/55/16 on a Yeti, and how is it?

Can't help with the ride/drive of it on 16" wheels I'm afraid. This one uses 17" wheels and 225/50/17 tyres, but for what it's worth, I think that the car rides really well. I drove the car home a few hundred miles but at no point did I notice any rough ride and I'm sure that if it was an issue then I'd have heard about it from my mum and dad by now as well.

[alfabeat]

My wife had a 110bhp 4wd 2.0 TDI for 3 years (64 plate). As said lots before they are really competent cars. We had a few problems with EGR gubbins and trim falling off. Its the only car that's let me down on a journey in about 15 years.

The major disappointment though was the mpg. I don't know if there was something wrong with ours, but even on long motorway journeys cruising along at 70, we never could get more than 35mpg. And overall average over the 3 years/45k was low 30's. It did drop quite a bit after it went in for it's VAG dieselgate fix.

Average daily commute was 15 miles so maybe just not long enough for it to be efficient.

[RS Grant]

alfabeat said:

My wife had a 110bhp 4wd 2.0 TDI for 3 years (64 plate). As said lots before they are really competent cars. We had a few problems with EGR gubbins and trim falling off. Its the only car that's let me down on a journey in about 15 years.

The major disappointment though was the mpg. I don't know if there was something wrong with ours, but even on long motorway journeys cruising along at 70, we never could get more than 35mpg. And overall average over the 3 years/45k was low 30's. It did drop quite a bit after it went in for it's VAG dieselgate fix.

Average daily commute was 15 miles so maybe just not long enough for it to be efficient.

I know that urban economy can be a little woeful on TDI cars sometimes, however, this one seems to be doing ~47mpg average on a mixture of roughly 40% town/village pootling and 60% open road at ~70mph stuff. Not sure if there were any mechanical differences between this 59-plate and your 64-plate though? I would assume that to keep costs down it was just a calibration difference between the 110bhp and 140bhp model but I could be wrong about that.

[Shakermaker]

RS Grant said:

alfabeat said:

My wife had a 110bhp 4wd 2.0 TDI for 3 years (64 plate). As said lots before they are really competent cars. We had a few problems with EGR gubbins and trim falling off. Its the only car that's let me down on a journey in about 15 years.

The major disappointment though was the mpg. I don't know if there was something wrong with ours, but even on long motorway journeys cruising along at 70, we never could get more than 35mpg. And overall average over the 3 years/45k was low 30's. It did drop quite a bit after it went in for it's VAG dieselgate fix.

Average daily commute was 15 miles so maybe just not long enough for it to be efficient.

I know that urban economy can be a little woeful on TDI cars sometimes, however, this one seems to be doing ~47mpg average on a mixture of roughly 40% town/village pootling and 60% open road at ~70mph stuff. Not sure if there were any mechanical differences between this 59-plate and your 64-plate though? I would assume that to keep costs down it was just a calibration difference between the 110bhp and 140bhp model but I could be wrong about that.

The 110hp used the EA288 engines whilst the 140 and 170 bhp models used the E189 engine - the 110s weren't affected by "dieselgate" from what I recall either.

[RicksAlfas]

ST565NP said:

Do you know which dimension tyres are on the car ? My father's 2011 1.2 TSI uses 215/60/16 but Skoda recommends 205/55/16 for winter tyres ( so that you can use snow chains) . I like the idea because these 205 are much cheaper, but the diameter difference is 13-14% which is really too much - it should be max 3%.

So, does someone uses 205/55/16 on a Yeti, and how is it?

I'm sure the Greenline versions use 205/55/16s.

[RS Grant]

Shakermaker said:

RS Grant said:

alfabeat said:

My wife had a 110bhp 4wd 2.0 TDI for 3 years (64 plate). As said lots before they are really competent cars. We had a few problems with EGR gubbins and trim falling off. Its the only car that's let me down on a journey in about 15 years.

The major disappointment though was the mpg. I don't know if there was something wrong with ours, but even on long motorway journeys cruising along at 70, we never could get more than 35mpg. And overall average over the 3 years/45k was low 30's. It did drop quite a bit after it went in for it's VAG dieselgate fix.

Average daily commute was 15 miles so maybe just not long enough for it to be efficient.

I know that urban economy can be a little woeful on TDI cars sometimes, however, this one seems to be doing ~47mpg average on a mixture of roughly 40% town/village pootling and 60% open road at ~70mph stuff. Not sure if there were any mechanical differences between this 59-plate and your 64-plate though? I would assume that to keep costs down it was just a calibration difference between the 110bhp and 140bhp model but I could be wrong about that.

The 110hp used the EA288 engines whilst the 140 and 170 bhp models used the E189 engine - the 110s weren't affected by "dieselgate" from what I recall either.

So just as I thought, no real changes between them... apart from the entire engine.

[ATG]

Unlike our Hilux Surf which didn't bat an eye, the MIL's 4x4 yeti needed a gearbox after "wading" through a flooded lane and got stuck in some slush on our driveway. Useless piece of kit. I'd chop it in in a heartbeat, but my wife says my son loves his grandmother, so I'm stuck with her. Boom boom!

Box seems to have gone when a breather pipe was submerged and the cooling effect of the water caused water to get sucked in. I have no idea where that pipe is located, but I'm guessing that the driver may have helped the situation by creating a tsunami. Yeti's don't have a huge amount of ground clearance and water (maybe 1ft deep) did come in through the door seals once she stopped, so the water was clearly too deep for the car, nonetheless it seems unlikely they'd make a breather pipe double up as a vacuum cleaner.