Skoda Yeti reviews

At 50,000 miles we have had to replace the timing chain, the gear box, the electrics that control the windows plus a few minor faults. The cost in the last 6 months has been near to £2500.00...absolutely not worth it! Now we have an oily, exhaust type smell in the car that cannot be diagnosed! Air con cleaned, pit inspections etc all to no avail. We have a very reliable garage that we have been customers for 15 years, we totally trust them and they have done all they can to be helpful...but this beast of a car is not worth the money it has cost.

My second Yeti I have purchased , The first a Yeti Diesel which I had no trouble because I live in a remote part of Dorset I needed a 4 x 4 no problem on snow or ice was not disappointed in the hard winter we had. Best safe cars I have ever purchased and are very reliable I very highly recommend..

Very pleased so far with above vehicle purchased from Capitol Skoda, Newport,

This is the only new car I have ever bought so far and I have not been disappointed. The performance is lively for its size and the handling and comfort are good. Fuel consumption is good, particularly on motorways achieving upper 40's. I would definitely buy another

Like every thing about the Yeti except the road noise

Versatile, comfortable, economical. It does all it should extremely well.

This vehicle is competent without being outstanding, the performance and economy being no better than OK compared with other cars, and the lack of any control over the 4X4 feature is a minus point compared with most other 4X4s.

I have owned this car from new.It is the second Yeti I have owned. I can honestly say it is simply the best car I have ever owned and I would not swop it for anything else.It is economical for its type regularly retuning 50 mpg.It is fun to drive,comfortable and reliable.The running cost are not expensive compared to other cars I have owned. I recommend this car.

Not as much space as it looks though, and also suffering from the VW diesel engine debacle.

Driving on Motorway gives around 50 mile per gallon but on local roads barely 40 mile per gallon

Downsized from a Honda CRV 2.0 Exec to the Yeti 11 months ago. Can honestly say that all the reviews in the motoring press are correct, especially the capability of the 1.2 litre engine matched to 2wd - surprisingly nimble and adequately punchy. Compared to the Honda the fuel economy and VED are significantly improved. The cabin space is obviously smaller the Honda but more than adequate for the 2 of us ( I am 6 ft 1 and tip the scales at 16stone 8 lbs and find the seats generous, supportive and comfortable with more than adequate leg room) and frequently grand children. Great flexibility in arrangement of seating / cargo space as rear seats offer 35/ 30/ 35 split and can be tilted forward to create a flat load space - haven't tried removing rear seats to increase size of flat load area- understand this is a bit awkward . Rear seat backs can be individually raked and seat squabs slide to provide a good range of adjustment to aid comfort for rear seat passengers. The ride is not quite as refined as the Honda but certainly more than adequate. The roof rails make it easy and economical to add extra load carrying capacity. My only real complaint is the lack of a spare tyre - only a reinflation kit is provided which has already proved an expensive option after suffering an irreparable. Overall, very happy with our choice and would certainly considered another Yeti to replace this one in due course

I'd wanted a Yeti for a long time but didn't think I'd be able to afford one. Used values are high and I hadn't considered buying new. Thanks to 0% finance and an accomodating dealer, I now have a 1.2 TSI SE on the drive and I'm not disappointed. Although the design is quite long in the tooth now, the Yeti is as as comfortable and practical as ever. Driver and passenger space is good, and although the boot could be bigger, the load space with the seats down is vast. The Yeti is fun to drive too, with plenty of torque from the turbocharged petrol unit and excellent handling thanks to independent rear suspension. It's one of only a handful of cars I've owned that I look forward to driving.

Excellent comfortable high up driving position and seats at "bum" height, ideal for access by "mature" driver and passengers. Tendency to minor engine electrical faults and Add Blue requirement a bit of a pain, particularly relative frequency of top ups. (mainly used on country roads and farm, rather than motorways.) Manufacturer's mudguard flaps quite inadequate for country roads. D.I.Y. extensions have helped but should not have been necessary! Survived last winter's floods but had to remember to switch from automatic to manual 1st / 2nd gears to avoid stalling in flood water. Over all very satisfied with Yeti. Previous 15 years drove Subaru Foresters but found Subaru too expensive to run and maintain but they were great!

Good driver/passenger height for seeing countryside. Excellent off road. Good boot. Love the car & so does the dog.

Over my 48yrs of owning several makes & models,this one suits me the best,my wife also loves to drive it as well. Our next car we buy will defenitly be another Yeti

I didn't want a Chelsea tank, but I wanted a car that was higher off the road, easier to get into and incorporated the latest technology

Has proved to be my most reliable car owned. Quite reasonable to service and insure. Perhaps not as economical as Skoda would have you believe, but still not bad.

I have been very pleased with the Yeti as a day to day car for a busy family. It is good to drive and copes well with both local and longer journeys. I chose the petrol option which is slightly thirsty. My main problem however was the need to replace the engine at 50,000 miles, the timing chain jumped and caused valves to hit the pistons. The car was just out of warranty, Skoda did adventually contribute 80% of the cost of the replacement engine and the dealer were extremely helpful.

Having waited 7 months for my Yeti to be delivered, I have found it easy and comfortable to drive, and relatively economic when compared to an original freelander.(my previous vehicle) I have a proper spare tyre so load space is compromised to some extent I took delivery in July 2011 and have had one service on the vehicle, I just wait for it to tell me when it needs one. I will be looking closely at the replacement yeti when it comes into production so that I can replace this one with the new model

I bought the 4x4 Yeti 4 years ago to help me get around in winter, and it has proved very useful - much better in winter on rural snow-covered roads. I would have preferred it to have larger tyres rather than the semi low profile ones, which are not very practical on our pot-hole ridden roads, but probably appeal more to the city-dweller who fancies having a 4x4. I get about 43 miles per gallon on average, but I do mainly short journeys. Economy is better on longer journeys. The car has been back to the dealer several times in the warranty period with warning lights coming on, and it usually takes them two or three days to fix a problem, though I can normally have the car back at the end of each day and return it to them the next morning. This has been very inconvenient. I paid for extended warranty because of these problems, and then an airbag warning light came on. This turned out to be a broken wire which they did fix in one day but it wasn't covered by the extended warranty and cost me over £100. It has since been back with one other problem that was covered by warranty, but took them 2 days to fix. There have been some intermittent electrical problems. A couple of times I have parked it and on returning to it a couple of hours later I've found all the windows open. Once I used the satnav to get me to an unfamiliar destination, and when I was ready to go home, the whole radio unit and satnav were inoperable, but everything worked again the next morning. Sometimes the cooling fan stays on for several minutes after turning the engine off, but it is always on cold days after a short journey. It has never happened on hot days or after a lot of driving. The problems have been irritating but it is a good car to drive.