Hello, Hello, Hello, Newbee in the house....

[andybristol]

Hi, I have just bought my first Skoda, I've ended up by default really with a 2.0TDi PD engined 4X4 Mk2 Octavia 2009 (ex Kent Constabulary vehicle) hence the slight attemp at being funny with my topic title - hello hello hello, maybe I should stick to not being funny, it suits me better....  Anyway as I was saying, by default (cos wife said it must be a 4x4) I have ended up with this, my first Skoda experience.... why have I not bought one before ? It goes like a rocket and pulls like a train, wowser for a 2.0tdi its a nimble piece of equipment. its got a fair few miles at 125K but always been serviced beyond most have probably... Anyway I'm enjoying browsing through the pages of info and subject etc etc... thanks for the welcome.

[DGW]

Welcom to Briskoda from a fellow 4x4 owner.

[KBPhoto]

Welcome.

I've just switched to a CR170 from a PD140 Octavia (not 4x4) and I do miss that low down torque. It's great.

[andybristol]

Thank you for your welcome .... I must admit its got more torque than my previous vehicle which was a 3.5L V6 petrol, I'm sure this will be a pleasant experience once I get past the first and probably worst issue I could have started with... I welcomed myself to the joys of the infamous DPF within 24hrs of picking it up... although I eventually had to have it put it into a forced regen using vcds and its now back to 0% from the worst my man has seen before 54%, he said that normally over 45% means its scrap and will need to be replaced but what saved mine I think was just prior to having it hooked up to the vcds to kick off the forced regen I had driven about 90 miles with a strong dpf cleaning solvent in the fuel, so that probably had an effect of loosening up the particles just prior to the regen. Not having done a regen before I must say it was not a pleasant experience... having to drive at 2500rpm or more continuously until that light went out, fortunatly it went out about 200m before the motorway junction I wanted to get off at so now all good again, checked with vcds after and back to 0%... good to go again.

Edited 23 November, 2014 by andybristol