Any real life yeti owners out there?

[Transporter]

Congratulations, it looks like a nice kit. Pictures?

[VWSceptic]

Drove my new Yeti home today: diesel 103 4x4 manual (with off-road button, roof bars, mats ,rear and front sensors) $32,394 (plus rego). Impressed with its driving handling/engine and good gear changes..... Now have to work out all those electronic system.... ...

also has 5 year warranty

[VWSceptic]

Congratulations, it looks like a nice kit. Pictures?

thanks... I will take some .. just got home tonight!! Will have to part with my Audi A3 .. wonderful little car .. will miss it..

[mark t]

I didn't get a box of wine or disposable gloves but I was happy with the deal, and after 3 weeks and 4000 kms I'm very happy with the yeti.

If you see a dirty white diesel, somewhere in Victoria or South Australia, with 16" wheels and an ironbull towbar, there would be a fair chance it's me.

Notyet: my partner seems to have got used to the seats, she feels quite safe and comfy.

[bluey]

[...]Now have to work out all those electronic system.... ...

Great buying. How much was rego/TPI/delivery or what was driveaway price??

The stuff that you can do through the Maxidot menu system is easy, though poorly documented in owner's manual. (Can't figure out exactly what the auto central unlock function does until I get round to getting the ERWIN manuals.) The harder stuff is what we need VCDS for (planning to get one). Does yours have the cornering fog light function? Amazingly useful to have indicator or steering input light up corners. If not it's a modifiable setting with VCDS.

So far have seen a few Yeti's on the road in Brissie. White TDI. Black probably TDI with superskoda red foot rear badge and big front spotlights. White with Dolmio pasta signage.

[NotYet]

Originally Posted by mark t
the forward/backward adjusting head restraints in the current passat have the same sized mounts as the yeti (and tiguan) and so should be interchangeable, I'll keep pursuing.

I went to a VW dealership last week to look at the fore-and-aft adjustable head restraints on a Passat. (They are also fitted on Touareg apparently.) They are great - adjust through a range of at least 10cm, maybe more. At the rear-most position the front of the head rest is about flush with the seat back.

BUT ... for some strange reason, the Passat (and Touareg) head restraints are not removable.

So still no solution, other than cushions and seat inserts.

Interestingly, the VW sales guy I spoke to made it pretty clear that a lot of customers didn't like the fixed forward-tilting head restraints on Tiguan and other models (same as Yeti), and he wished that all VW models had the adjustable ones.

People here might not have a problem with fixed forward-tilted head restraints, but a google search will show that there is a lot of latent resentment about them. This is an issue not only in VAG vehicles but across many car-makers. Reducing whiplash is a worthy objective, and maybe most people can live with them (possibly by tilting the seat further back than they would prefer), but one size head restraint doesn't fit all. My guess is that sooner or later, fore-and-aft adjustable head restraints (like those on Passat and Touareg) will become standard.

[VWSceptic]

Great buying. How much was rego/TPI/delivery or what was driveaway price??

The stuff that you can do through the Maxidot menu system is easy, though poorly documented in owner's manual. (Can't figure out exactly what the auto central unlock function does until I get round to getting the ERWIN manuals.) The harder stuff is what we need VCDS for (planning to get one). Does yours have the cornering fog light function? Amazingly useful to have indicator or steering input light up corners. If not it's a modifiable setting with VCDS.

So far have seen a few Yeti's on the road in Brissie. White TDI. Black probably TDI with superskoda red foot rear badge and big front spotlights. White with Dolmio pasta signage.

Sorry missed this post bluey.

I do not know whether I have cornering fog lights. I will check. I assume I don't. Are they additional options?

I registered myself, cost $1500 in NSW, TPI about $300. The driveway price (without rego) was $33,394 (i mis-typed in #45 above).

[woofy]

I went to a VW dealership last week to look at the fore-and-aft adjustable head restraints on a Passat. (They are also fitted on Touareg apparently.) They are great - adjust through a range of at least 10cm, maybe more. At the rear-most position the front of the head rest is about flush with the seat back.

BUT ... for some strange reason, the Passat (and Touareg) head restraints are not removable.

So still no solution, other than cushions and seat inserts.

Interestingly, the VW sales guy I spoke to made it pretty clear that a lot of customers didn't like the fixed forward-tilting head restraints on Tiguan and other models (same as Yeti), and he wished that all VW models had the adjustable ones.

People here might not have a problem with fixed forward-tilted head restraints, but a google search will show that there is a lot of latent resentment about them. This is an issue not only in VAG vehicles but across many car-makers. Reducing whiplash is a worthy objective, and maybe most people can live with them (possibly by tilting the seat further back than they would prefer), but one size head restraint doesn't fit all. My guess is that sooner or later, fore-and-aft adjustable head restraints (like those on Passat and Touareg) will become standard.

I have them on our Santa Fe but you can adjust them forward and back, but they still stick into you even at the lowest setting.