For people about to order a Yeti in S trim there are some things that are different from the brochure description. On page 9 of the brochure, 'Skoda Yeti S', it shows four photographs of the interior, two of which are actually of the SE trim.

The knee airbag photo shows silver dashboard trim, a multi-function steering wheel, the Bolero stereo and dual zone AC. The S trim actually has metallic graphite dashboard trim, a plain steering wheel, the Stream stereo and manual AC.

The rear seats removed photo shows a Jumbo box between the front seats. The S trim actually has a lower tray there with a selection of open cubbies for cups, phones and a pen clip. I actually prefer it that way. When I drove the SE demonstrator I found that the Jumbo box got in the way of operating the handbrake a bit.

The dashboard top storage area has no lid. It has a rubbery finish so things don't slide about. You can put larger items in there that wouldn't fit in with the lid shut. You could put a satnav on a beanbag there.

The interior door handles are black plastic on the S trim, not metal ones. However the body coloured door handles and door mirrors listed in the SE (over and above S) spec on page 10 are actually fitted to the S trim as is a boot light.

I was surprised to get red warning lights in the doors as the lower spec cars usually just have reflectors.

The middle back seat doesn't have a headrest or cup holders in the back of it. This actually can have some advantages if you don't need to carry five adult passengers. A better view in the rear view mirror and instant easy folding forward of the middle seat without the headrest hitting the transmission tunnel.

The only thing I miss is lumbar supports which only appear in the Elegance trim.

[The rear seats removed photo shows a Jumbo box between the front seats. The S trim actually has a lower tray there with a selection of open cubbies for cups, phones and a pen clip. I actually prefer it that way. When I drove the SE demonstrator I found that the Jumbo box got in the way of operating the handbrake a bit.

They get away with the errors by the usual get out clause.

I do agree with you about the jumbo box and the handbrake , especially when you have the lid slid forward.

My wife's Altea has the handbrake nearer to the passenger side and its so much easier. I believe LHD SM's have the handbrake also next to the drivers seat so it must be delberately swapped over for RHD versions.

I find the open dash compartment useful to fit my sat nav low on the windscreen, I Was told by my stealer that the A/C is thermostatically controlled by setting the temperature setting, not to sure about that as it then becomes climate control. I was surprised that there was no bendy plastic thingee in boot or slots to fit one in. Am I correct that the radio only has fm or am i thick as i cant find other bands. Overall a bit lacking on extras after my Fabia 3 but generally happy with my yeti, sometimes less gizmos less to go wrong .

Edited 25 July, 201015 yr by mellyboy

The left hand knob of the heater controls has a range of 18 - 26 degrees C. I believe that with A/C on it mixes warm and cold air to achieve the desired temerature.

The bendy plastic thingee in the boot is not supplied if you have the spare wheel kit as it wouldn't fit in with the raised floor. However I was pleasantly surprised to get a boot net set with my spare wheel kit. One elasicated net bag for the side of the boot and a larger one to go across the front or back of the boot. At only £55 extra for a spare wheel, tyre, jack, wheelbrace and a net set this is a bargain!

The radio has AM. In fact there are 3 sets of memories for AM (18 stations) as well the same number for FM. Press and hold the 'Radio' button to switch from FM to AM. I have a short aerial and find AM reception in rural areas quite poor but only use it when out of FM reception.

The left hand knob of the heater controls has a range of 18 - 26 degrees C. I believe that with A/C on it mixes warm and cold air to achieve the desired temerature.

This is called "Climatic" on Volkswagens. It is a semi-auto AC system one step up from a normal system where you have to add the heat yourself after switching the AC on to get a temperature higher than 18 (or whatever the temp is the AC is chugging out). My dad could never get the fact that I added heat to my first car's manual AC system with the AC on when I got too cold!

If you look at some of the Google images (search "Climatic") you will see the exact same Yeti S three button unit on some Volkswagens labelled as with Climatic.

The left hand knob of the heater controls has a range of 18 - 26 degrees C. I believe that with A/C on it mixes warm and cold air to achieve the desired temerature.

The bendy plastic thingee in the boot is not supplied if you have the spare wheel kit as it wouldn't fit in with the raised floor. However I was pleasantly surprised to get a boot net set with my spare wheel kit. One elasticated net bag for the side of the boot and a larger one to go across the front or back of the boot. At only £55 extra for a spare wheel, tyre, jack, wheel brace and a net set this is a bargain!

The radio has AM. In fact there are 3 sets of memories for AM (18 stations) as well the same number for FM. Press and hold the 'Radio' button to switch from FM to AM. I have a short aerial and find AM reception in rural areas quite poor but only use it when out of FM reception.

Thanks for your help guys will be turning the heater control to mix some warm / cold air in future, found am now ,I am sure I have seen photo of the bendy thing in photos of the boot of a yeti, but no loss i put my loose bits and bobs in a" for life" shopping bag and hang it on one of the hooks , was not aware the spare was such a good deal will be ordering one soon , as a Old Yetioin and have many cars all with spares including my fabia 3 , I at a loss to understand how the motors manufacturers have away with not supplying a spare. Any one ever used the gunge and pump and was it effective, when I asked my stealer with regard to using it etc he said ring Skoda assist , they will sort it out., I would much prefer to stick the spare on and be on my way.

Edited 26 July, 201015 yr by mellyboy

Any one ever used the gunge and pump and was it effective, when I asked my stealer with regard to using it etc he said ring Skoda assist , they will sort it out., I would much prefer to stick the spare on and be on my way.

I agree. I ordered the spare and if I ever need all that space I can leave it all at home and buy some gunk if need be or just take the chance and leave it to Skoda Assist. My A2's spare also takes up 90 odd litres of space under the false boot floor but I prefer that peace of mind.

More and more manufacturers are doing away with spares, because it reduces the weight of the car and therefore reduces it's carbon foot print, plus statistically modern tyres are far more puncture proof than in the past.

Tempting fate probably, but in the last 7 years of average annual motoring (13k/pa) I haven't had a puncture, and I drive a lot off-road. When did you have your last puncture?

When did you have your last puncture?

In nine years with the A2 and 110,000 miles I have had four punctures! Of those not a single one would have been saved by squirting the gunk into the wheel...

Statistically you are likely to get a puncture every 38,000 miles. I had two in 50,000 miles in my last car.

When we visited my mother-in-law there were fitters putting up a conservatory for one of her neighbours. They were dragging items out from the back of a van on the street. I had a brand new self-tapping screw in the back tyre when I stopped less than a mile away.

I think I would rather have a spare wheel to continue a long journey safely.

Not sure about the need for a 50 mph speed limit on the supplied spare wheel. I think Skoda are just covering themselves. I had a small narrow space saver on a previous car, inflated to 60 psi, and drove 40 miles on it at 50 mph. It had very little grip and was extremely noisy. I wouldn't have wanted to go any faster on it. However a 195 section 16 inch tyre is very close to my other 215 section 16 inch tyres. The reason for the speed restriction is given as the slight difference in rolling circumference. However I think it would be probably be quite stable.

I have been been motoring for fourty years and never had to change a wheel on the road, when driving private or commercial I have always had a spare, Murphy's law will now come into being and the only time in my long years of driving I will get my first blowout in the most inconvenient place with only a emission saving tube of gunge to see me safely on my way, sorry but I will get a spare and risk Greenpeace kicking my door in for assisting with the destruction of the planet

Edited 26 July, 201015 yr by mellyboy

... was not aware the spare was such a good deal will be ordering one soon , as a Old Yetioin and have many cars all with spares including my fabia 3 , I at a loss to understand how the motors manufacturers have away with not supplying a spare. Any one ever used the gunge and pump and was it effective, when I asked my stealer with regard to using it etc he said ring Skoda assist , they will sort it out., I would much prefer to stick the spare on and be on my way.

I think you will find that the £55 spare +bits is only when it is ordered fitted in a new car. To buy it separately ( I think Skoda now do a kit) maybe around the £200 mark. Phone your dealer.

See the posts at the end of this thread:

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/160480-real-full-size-road-wheel-as-spare-wheel-will-it-fit/

Two of us on this forum have used/sourced a skinny spacesaver.

tom

The left hand knob of the heater controls has a range of 18 - 26 degrees C. I believe that with A/C on it mixes warm and cold air to achieve the desired temerature.

The bendy plastic thingee in the boot is not supplied if you have the spare wheel kit as it wouldn't fit in with the raised floor. However I was pleasantly surprised to get a boot net set with my spare wheel kit. One elasicated net bag for the side of the boot and a larger one to go across the front or back of the boot. At only £55 extra for a spare wheel, tyre, jack, wheelbrace and a net set this is a bargain!

The radio has AM. In fact there are 3 sets of memories for AM (18 stations) as well the same number for FM. Press and hold the 'Radio' button to switch from FM to AM. I have a short aerial and find AM reception in rural areas quite poor but only use it when out of FM reception.

Can I ask where you got your short aerial, as mine is to tall to fit comfortably through the garage door, I have left it unscrewed at the moment and keep it in the boot for long journeys, and to be perfectly honest the reception doesn't seem affected by the lack of aerial.

My dealer (Thomson + Potter) supplied it on the new car at my request. It is a black flexible aerial like the original but about half the length. The original aerial was also in the car when I collected it. The salesman said that another Yeti owner had bought a silver short aerial from Halfords which looked good on his Aqua Blue car as it looked almost body-coloured.

I looked at them in Halfords but they seemed rigid to me, just bits of aluminium. Mine sometimes touches the underside of the garage door on the way out so I prefer a flexible one.

I believe that the heated rear window elements also act as an radio aerial so you can expect good reception even when the aerial is unscrewed, providing you are in a good reception area.

Can I ask where you got your short aerial...

Also see point 20 in this thread.

Thanks to you both, probably go with the ebay version.

Can I ask where you got your short aerial, as mine is to tall to fit comfortably through the garage door, I have left it unscrewed at the moment and keep it in the boot for long journeys, and to be perfectly honest the reception doesn't seem affected by the lack of aerial.

I got mine from Parts4Euro, (look under Universal) and I think it looks great on the SM. It's just over 2,5 inches tall. The aerial I got is called OEM Sharan Antenna Replica. I have not noticed any difference in radio reception so far, at least not in urban areas.

Edited 27 July, 201015 yr by the_raz

I got mine from Parts4Euro, (look under Universal) and I think it looks great on the SM. It's just over 2,5 inches tall. The aerial I got is called OEM Sharan Antenna Replica. I have not noticed any difference in radio reception so far, at least not in urban areas.

Thanks, I have bookmarked it in case I am not happy with the ebay version - don't want to spoil the looks of my SM!

I got mine from Parts4Euro, (look under Universal) and I think it looks great on the SM. It's just over 2,5 inches tall. The aerial I got is called OEM Sharan Antenna Replica. I have not noticed any difference in radio reception so far, at least not in urban areas.

Yikes its a bit expensive at $30 plus shipping!

http://www.parts4euro.com/DCShop/index.php?cPath=1_364_366

Yikes its a bit expensive at $30 plus shipping!

http://www.parts4eur...cPath=1_364_366

At least I did not pay anything for the shipping (to Finland) and the service is very friendly. I had missed some fields of my address, and they contacted me by mail to verify that they had the correct mailing address.

Edited 27 July, 201015 yr by the_raz

For people about to order a Yeti in S trim there are some things that are different from the brochure description. On page 9 of the brochure, 'Skoda Yeti S', it shows four photographs of the interior, two of which are actually of the SE trim.

The knee airbag photo shows silver dashboard trim, a multi-function steering wheel, the Bolero stereo and dual zone AC. The S trim actually has metallic graphite dashboard trim, a plain steering wheel, the Stream stereo and manual AC.

The rear seats removed photo shows a Jumbo box between the front seats. The S trim actually has a lower tray there with a selection of open cubbies for cups, phones and a pen clip. I actually prefer it that way. When I drove the SE demonstrator I found that the Jumbo box got in the way of operating the handbrake a bit.

The dashboard top storage area has no lid. It has a rubbery finish so things don't slide about. You can put larger items in there that wouldn't fit in with the lid shut. You could put a satnav on a beanbag there.

The interior door handles are black plastic on the S trim, not metal ones. However the body coloured door handles and door mirrors listed in the SE (over and above S) spec on page 10 are actually fitted to the S trim as is a boot light.

I was surprised to get red warning lights in the doors as the lower spec cars usually just have reflectors.

The middle back seat doesn't have a headrest or cup holders in the back of it. This actually can have some advantages if you don't need to carry five adult passengers. A better view in the rear view mirror and instant easy folding forward of the middle seat without the headrest hitting the transmission tunnel.

The only thing I miss is lumbar supports which only appear in the Elegance trim.

Yes I'd agree with you on this, and do use my Garmin sat nav on the 'beanbag' mount in the centre tray, an ideal position for it, no looking down for street names, and quickly removed and hidden, or used out of the car in pedestrian mode.

I ordered my car in April, delivered in July, and they now have body coloured mirrors instead of black.

I have been been motoring for forty years and never had to change a wheel on the road, when driving private or commercial I have always had a spare, Murphy's law will now come into being and the only time in my long years of driving I will get my first blowout in the most inconvenient place with only a emission saving tube of gunge to see me safely on my way, sorry but I will get a spare and risk Greenpeace kicking my door in for assisting with the destruction of the planet

Murphy's Law came in to being found a bolt embedded in the a rear tyre , didn't deflate so luckily didnt have to use gunk, tyre fitter was able to facilitate a repair. Said to tyre fitter " people don't get punctures these days do they" his reply was I repair as many as ever , don,t ever put that gunk in a tyre as depending upon the gunk used could render your tyre irreparable, Punture repair £ 15 , new tyre probally £100 upwards.

Thanks, I have bookmarked it in case I am not happy with the ebay version - don't want to spoil the looks of my SM!

The ebay version fits perfectly, for anyone who needs a cheap alternative (£6.99)

The ebay version fits perfectly, for anyone who needs a cheap alternative (£6.99)

Yes I've ordered one here also, no claims made, as to amplification, as the more expensive version mentioned in this forum, but will give it a go, nice to stop hitting car park height restrictors. I suppose this means a luggage box on roof bars won't fit under these either.