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- People of varying height have reported that the standard internal rear view mirror is set too low and obscures their vision. This is not the case with cars fitted with rain sensing wipers. Check this when you test drive and tick the rain sensing option if this is not standard with your model (and you feel the standard non-rain sensing wiper mirror is fitted too low). Click here for thread. OR you can just order the "Light assistant" auto headlights option (£65 in the UK) which also has the sensor and higher mirror.
- Sunroof: This option was deleted in April 2010 but is now available again.
- If you tick the box for the spare wheel you cannot have an internal bike carrier at the same time unless you remove the whole spare wheel assembly and boot floor as per this thread.
- Some people have reported stone chips to the side of the vehicle around the front of the rear wheelarches. If you tick the rough road package this area is covered with special protective film. If you regularly do dirt roads (or live in the UK with our current pitted roads!) consider ticking this option. Or order the film from Skoda: Part numbers: 5L0 807 905 B (Protective foil left) 5L0 807 906 B (Protective foil right) EDIT: as of week 45 build 2010 this will be standard on all Yetis.
- Snowchains. If you must use them check the Yeti manual first before ordering as Yetis and snowchains have issues. Most people suggest winter tyres are a better option.
- You cannot get MDI as an option in the UK - this is a connector to connect iPods and iPhones to the car's radio via an Apple 30pin connector (also charging the device and giving full functionality through the radio/steering wheel controls). It might be retro fitted later.
- You cannot get the timber wood finish instead of the silver finish on the dashboard in the UK fitted from factory. You can however retro-fit it. See this thread.
- You cannot get an electrically adjustable driver's seat in the UK. EDIT: as of September 2010 these are now available as an option.
- A Jumbo Box is just a central armrest (also cooled by the aircon) with a 3,5mm audio jack inside.
- Think about your sat-nav cables and other powered devices and how you will route their cables since the Yeti's power socket sits under the handbrake and not on the dashboard as with some other cars.
- The spare wheel is called a "spacesaver" but is NOT a narrow spacesaver. It is just a standard wheel but slightly smaller than the other wheels but due to that has a speed restriction on it (on higher spec models). On some of the lower spec models the spare and the other wheels are the same with no speed restriction.
- You cannot order the Alcantara finish on the Elegance trim level in the UK even though on the SE the cost of leather and Alcantara is exactly the same (and leather is standard on the Elegance).
- Locking wheel nuts are shown in the UK options list for all models but they are in fact standard for most models.
- The UK brochure does not explain the Columbus sat nav radio's features very well. It has an internal hard drive to which you can permanently copy your music collection via the SD card.
- The double sunvisors shown in the manual are not fitted to UK Yetis and is not available as an option.
- The Yeti manual shows a roll up fabric dog guard requiring special factory fitted hooks fitted to the car's ceiling to fit it either behind the front or rear seats. It is unknown how you order this and as such it is impossible to order (in the UK). Click here for thread.
- The UK Yeti brochure and website does not show the colours very well. This thread shows all the latest colours very well. Here is a link with good pictures of the colours (scroll down a bit first after clicking on link). Or here on the Skoda world website. And here is another link to good Yeti pictures and this one. Click on the 1600x1200 versions.
- You can download the latest Yeti owner's manual here. You can also find the owner's manuals to all the radios there.
- The Yeti exterior rear view mirrors can't electrically fold. Edit: as of sometime in the middle of 2010 all Elegance spec Yeti's now get electrically folding mirrors as standard regardless of you ordering the electric seat or not.
- If you have a low garage you can fit a shorter stubby aerial. Various ones will fit. See thread here and here and you can buy them from eBay.
- The spare wheel is a £85 option. If you decide to have a spare later all the bits for it will cost you over £250 from the dealer. Skoda Assist will cover you via the RAC for three years if you get a puncture but be mindful that their small print won't cover you from year 3 if you don't have an actual spare wheel. See post 18 in this thread.
- Tunnel lights are just Skoda speak for automatic lights. In other words you leave the light switch in the Auto setting and the light sensor in the mirror will be used to decide when it is dark enough to switch the lights on automatically - i.e. when you drive into a tunnel.
- The price difference between the Elegance and the SE is circa £2,035. Thus adding leather and perhaps one more option to an SE means it is not worth going for the SE and you may as well just get the Elegance (with standard leather seats) as chances are the other options you are picking are standard Elegance features anyway - e.g. cornering foglights or Bi-Xenon headlights. This might help explain why over 50% of all Yetis are Elegance spec.
- You can fully retro-fit a towbar, right down to the "factory prep" and the access hatch for the removable tow bar in the bumper. Cost vary from about £280 for a non removable towbar with old fashioned (and ugly) external twin sockets to about £700 for the removable Westfalia version. Remember to get your dealer to do a software update on the car as well, since part of the factory towbar prep is to tell the car's computer what to do if you connect something to the system - eg. to switch off the reversing sensors, change the ESP settings and show a trailer on the radio display. This costs circa £50. If you don't do this the reversing sensors will constantly beep when you select reverse (if you have reversing sensors).
- There are numerous anomalies in the Yeti brochure. If it is confusing you, then have a look at some of these I listed in this thread regarding the August 2010 brochure.
- The standard Yeti seats have height adjustment but this adjust the height of the entire seat base up and down. If you want to alter the pitch of the seat and have the front higher than the back for example, you need to consider the Electric driver's seat with memory function. This allows for the front and back to be adjusted independently via these switches. The round switch is for the electric lumbar control which can be moved up and down as well as in and out.
- The Yeti diesels come with a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). A very green bit of kit but it does put some limitations on your driving style and does not like lots of short trips. Skoda has released some guidance on its use and this can be found in this thread. Thus you might have to think about TDI vs Petrol if your driving style and/or typical trips won't suit a DPF.
- Some people have started to notice that the Halogen lights are not that good since the Yeti uses one bulb to do both dipped and main beam (so it can do either or but not both at once as most cars do on main beam) - see this thread. So if you live in an area where you need decent lights consider getting the Xenon lights as an option or get the Elegance spec on which they are standard.
- On models below Elegance you can add the sunglass holder above the rearview mirror for very little cost. See this thread.
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