Hi all and thank you in advance for any advice you can give me.
I should say up front that what I know about cars and mechanics can be written on the back of a piece of confetti...so please use short words and speak slowly! ;-) My Yeti was registered March 2010 so six years old with a full service history at 2 different Skoda garages. I bought the car after one owner with 18,000 miles on the clock and it has now done 68,000 miles. My compressor has just broken and I'd like to get some feedback from other Skoda Yeti owners. Obviously I'm not delighted to have something as expensive as this need replacing. Having taken good care of the car and kept up with the service schedule at Skoda dealerships I feel like this unit shouldn't be breaking down so soon.
So first up, does anyone share that view or is a compressor breaking down after 6 years just par for the course? I live in France and the Skoda garage that has been servicing the car for the last 3 years has just disbanded but even if it hadn't the French don't do much in the way of customer satisfaction. I guess I was wondering if Skoda itself stood by it's components in anyway outside of the first three or five year warranty?
Also at the same time I have an engine noise issue. If I push down on the clutch while the car is idling then the engine starts sounding more like a tractor than a smoothly running Skoda Yeti. Okay, not that bad but it's the best way I can describe the change in engine noise. I took the car into a new Skoda garage to discuss this and the mechanic did the old sharp intake of breath and said that it was either a problem with the clutch/flywheel or the gear box (I think!) and that even diagnosing the problem would be a big job. If I understood correctly, if the problem isn't something simple with the clutch then it would probably be a gear box problem requiring the replacement of it!I'm taking the car somewhere else for a second opinion so I'll update here when I know more. I guess my overriding feeling is that, despite the care I've taken with the car, maybe now is the time to sell it and upgrade...
Is six years and 65 - 70,000 miles just about the time everything starts to break on a Skoda?
Thanks in advance for any views.
Jamie
I should say up front that what I know about cars and mechanics can be written on the back of a piece of confetti...so please use short words and speak slowly! ;-) My Yeti was registered March 2010 so six years old with a full service history at 2 different Skoda garages. I bought the car after one owner with 18,000 miles on the clock and it has now done 68,000 miles. My compressor has just broken and I'd like to get some feedback from other Skoda Yeti owners. Obviously I'm not delighted to have something as expensive as this need replacing. Having taken good care of the car and kept up with the service schedule at Skoda dealerships I feel like this unit shouldn't be breaking down so soon.
So first up, does anyone share that view or is a compressor breaking down after 6 years just par for the course? I live in France and the Skoda garage that has been servicing the car for the last 3 years has just disbanded but even if it hadn't the French don't do much in the way of customer satisfaction. I guess I was wondering if Skoda itself stood by it's components in anyway outside of the first three or five year warranty?
Also at the same time I have an engine noise issue. If I push down on the clutch while the car is idling then the engine starts sounding more like a tractor than a smoothly running Skoda Yeti. Okay, not that bad but it's the best way I can describe the change in engine noise. I took the car into a new Skoda garage to discuss this and the mechanic did the old sharp intake of breath and said that it was either a problem with the clutch/flywheel or the gear box (I think!) and that even diagnosing the problem would be a big job. If I understood correctly, if the problem isn't something simple with the clutch then it would probably be a gear box problem requiring the replacement of it!I'm taking the car somewhere else for a second opinion so I'll update here when I know more. I guess my overriding feeling is that, despite the care I've taken with the car, maybe now is the time to sell it and upgrade...
Is six years and 65 - 70,000 miles just about the time everything starts to break on a Skoda?
Thanks in advance for any views.
Jamie
