Proud new owner of a 103TDI

[BJ75]

Yup. Had it just over a year & 3 months. Absolutely love it. Awesome, awesome car that still surprises me with it's overall ride quality.

Would LOVE to put a set of Matterhorns on it, and get the rear-view mirrors coated black. Matterhorns are stupid expensive to buy from Skoda, but I'm hoping to either set up a swap with another Yeti owner on here, or perhaps try and organise a swap with a dealer who has one on a showroom car - which will only work in both cases if they don't like the Matterhorns and want Spitzbergs.

Backup plan is to get a set of R-Type VW wheels painted black, which I don't think would look that bad either, to be honest. Some might disagree though...

[Boon]

Some pics of yoda the blue yeti

[Blue103TDIDSG]

Hey Boon - twins LOL
We had our windows tinted

Before



After



They look darker here than they are due to the extreme sunshine as opposed to the overcast day in the "before" photo

[Boon]

Just wondering which diesel u using for the 103tdi? Have tried a tank of shell and got about 700+ kms from a tank and have just refilled with bp ultimate. Did ya remove ur radio antenna or is it just missing in the second pic?

[Blue103TDIDSG]

Hey Boon - you got keen eyes
No I didn't remove the aerial and it sure isn't there in the photo - so I just went downstairs to check - it's there - Phewwww
Here's another photo taken at the same time



So it is some form of optical illusion in the this photo - sure seems to be missing



Now, on the fuel - I usually use Caltex (with a Woolies shopper docket)
From about the third tank I get 900+ range after filling

What gearbox yours got ?

[Boon]

Now, on the fuel - I usually use Caltex (with a Woolies shopper docket)
From about the third tank I get 900+ range after filling

What gearbox yours got ?

Mines a 6 speed dsg. 900+km/tank is awesome! Will see how the new tank of BP ultimate goes. My wife drives from north to southside and back for work so heaps of traffic lights.

[Blue103TDIDSG]

That missing aerial

That missing aerial got the better of me
Went back to the original photo and cropped it and there it is
Purely by chance it was positioned so as to blend in with the edge of the background trees



In fact if you look carefully at the original photo you can just see the base between the rail and the roof

[Blue103TDIDSG]

Mines a 6 speed dsg. 900+km/tank is awesome! Will see how the new tank of BP ultimate goes. My wife drives from north to southside and back for work so heaps of traffic lights.

Yes magic gearbox.
Our running is at the other end of the spectrum traffic wise
We live on the bay surrounded by sugarcane so it is a 15 minute run back to the main drag and the shopping centre
There are 2 ways we can get back to the M1. Speed limit is 100kph when we head north and 80 and 100kph when we head south
So economy is probably about as good as we will ever get

[BJ75]

900km from a tank is pretty amazing. I get 700 if I try. Which isn't often. All that torque is just too tempting for right foot.

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[Blue103TDIDSG]

900km from a tank is pretty amazing. I get 700 if I try. Which isn't often. All that torque is just too tempting for right foot.

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We went to Caboolture last weekend and the MFD showed 5.4l/100km for the trip up
then with some running around up there and again when we got back the overall for the total trip was 5.6l/100km

But I seem to recall reading somewhere that the trip computer is optimistic
Either way I'm still stoked

[Blue103TDIDSG]

You can try the Osram Night Breakers in the headlights, I've fitted them to Tiguan and they're much better than the std H7 globes the car came with.

Thanks Tranporter
Will have to do something as they are a lot less than the old series 80 Landcruiser that had the same H4 headlights + another 2 for high beam

On the lights - another question
Has anyone replaced the DRLs with LEDs or something that gets away from the yellow of the std bulbs ?
And if "yes" how to overcome the CanBus blown bulb issues

Sure is ....

BJ75

Love that colour combination

Had a look at the official Skoda site - Skoda Yeti Colours - Å*KODA Australia

and they don't show a red with black roof
Did you have a factory order for yours ?

[Boon]

We went to Caboolture last weekend and the MFD showed 5.4l/100km for the trip up
then with some running around up there and again when we got back the overall for the total trip was 5.6l/100km

But I seem to recall reading somewhere that the trip computer is optimistic
Either way I'm still stoked

If the MFD is inaccurate, does that mean the other readings could be too? I've got an A4 B8 MY13 and the 'total' consumption figures seem spot on but the 'trip' consumption figures seem more conservative. Unfortunately still doesn't match the advertised numbers though unlike the yeti which goes under the quoted 6.9L/100km.

[Boon]

Anybody tried there roof rails? http://bit.ly/13ni1rw

[Rooboy]

I've got the original Yeti roof bars which I'm reasonably happy with. Drove up from Melbourne to Falls Creek 2 weeks ago with a car full of food and a Thule roof box filled with skis and boots and got 7.9L/100km (MFD 7.5) which I think is ok.

The Yeti returns to its natural environment

[Blue103TDIDSG]

If the MFD is inaccurate, does that mean the other readings could be too? I've got an A4 B8 MY13 and the 'total' consumption figures seem spot on but the 'trip' consumption figures seem more conservative. Unfortunately still doesn't match the advertised numbers though unlike the yeti which goes under the quoted 6.9L/100km.

Boon
Have no experience with the Yeti fuel system but have installed a fuel flow system in an ultralight aircraft. In the aircraft system it is a small vane that spins as the fuel flows through an orifice combined with some means of producing a pulse for a known volume as it goes through, which is an LED with a photo transistor. Then the "gauge" has software that simply converts these pulses to litres per hour, and if you feed in the cruise speed and amount you put in the tanks it will tell you distance to go, time to go and fuel remaining with an alarm when it gets to your preset low. Just like the Yeti.

It is factory set but has to be calibrated to fine tune it - think you can do this with the Yeti one too. In my plane the flow transducer is installed not far after the electric auxiliary fuel pump which is one of those "rattle" type pulse pumps. This pulsing has an effect on the flow, I suspect that it is the pressure pulses, but anyway it causes it to read about 10% high when the pump is running. This is no real problem since the aux pump is only on during take off and landing.

All this IS going some where, so hang in there. LOL

I believe all the readouts for the fuel usage, range etc, will come from a single transducer so any variation or inaccuracy in that unit will reflect across all readings. In addition because of the way that the work they will all have some degree of inaccuracy, the least of which will be caused rapid changes in flow.

All this if just IMHO and I stand to be corrected by those with far greater knowledge than I have