King Bore visited us today. It's a kind of day to normally stay inside. But I had to take my daughter to the train station. It was difficult to change gears. The clutch was stiff. But overall. The Yeti performed well as usual.

Temperature meter

Whoa thats cold

Wow! Now that's extreme cold, I would love to drive around in that (and let the dogs have a play around), with winter tyres on the Yeti of course.

No wonder the gears were difficult, oil must be like treacle at those sort of temps

Must use pre heaters to get her started :wonder:

TP

Impressive! I thought -25C is pretty cold for Yeti.

Did You use any kind of block heater (swedish: motorvärmare) - electic, petrol or diesel - before you started the engine,

or did you just start it from cold (outside or in a somewhat warm garage?)?

How do You find the heating ability of the petrol 1.8TSI Yeti in -10-20 celsius (more normal "cold" winter temperatures where I live :-))?

Is it sufficient without a "webasto"-heater, or do You have such a device (petrol or diesel) installed in Your Yeti?

Martin

Did You use any kind of block heater (swedish: motorvärmare) - electic, petrol or diesel - before you started the engine,

or did you just start it from cold (outside or in a somewhat warm garage?)?

How do You find the heating ability of the petrol 1.8TSI Yeti in -10-20 celsius (more normal "cold" winter temperatures where I live :-))?

Is it sufficient without a "webasto"-heater, or do You have such a device (petrol or diesel) installed in Your Yeti?

Martin

I have a petrol 1.8TSI Yeti. There is no problem with the standard heater, at least down to -15 celsius which is the coldest I've got so far. I do use an electric pre-heater in the morning, but not back from work. The engine seems to get warm rather quickly even without the pre-heater

The coldest temperature at which my Yeti started so far was -23℃. It had spent a night at about -27 and then in the afternoon, when it got slightly warmer, I started it without a hassle. The clutch pedal was stiff though (for the first 15 minutes or so). Also, the engine heats very slowly in idle run. In fact, if the outside temperature is below -20 and you run the heater at second speed (and max heat, of course) engine temperature begins to fall below 90 degrees fairly quickly in idle run. Another peculiarity that I noticed is the distribution of heat by the heater when the engine is not fully warmed up: it tends to heat upper part of the car in the first place, so I have to adjust air flows more towards the legs.

There is an article in the Russian automotive magazine “Autoreview†comparing Yeti, Tiguan, Qashqai and Sportage: a link

Among other aspects, they also tested heaters and got the following results (on the y-axis is the temperature in ℃ and on the x-axis is time in minutes; all the engines were in idle run):

Driver's Head

Driver's Legs

Rear Passenger's Head

Rear Passenger's Legs

Both the Yeti and the Tiguan were equipped with "Climatronics". And although I have a "Climatic", I experience basically the same.

Today I noticed black smoke coming out of the tailpipe for the first minute after a cold start at low temperature. It was -24℃. This was the second time I noticed it. Previous time I noticed black smoke at -16 the other day. Looks like it is normal for the 1.8 TSI engine, according to other forums. But strange: my previous Euro-2 Lada (and the Yeti is Euro-5) emitted black smoke after cold-starting in the frost only once or twice. Then I had forgotten to properly disengage the anti-theft system that simply cut-off one cylinder. I hope that smoke doesn't hurt the catalytic converter in my Yeti. Also there was some faint creaking coming from the engine for a couple of minutes, then it vanished.

Another thing I noticed today is that the front suspension makes strange noises like creaking and grinding while passing narrow sleeping policemen. These noises pass away after a few kilometers.