daztms85

sorry for dragging up a old thread its just that i have not had my skoda pd/tdi 170 bhp vrs octavia(with 42k on the clock) very long as i bought in dec 2011 and have been suffering with the same problems with mine like that have been mentioned in the thread. But my problems seemed to started when skoda changed the injectors and loom in august 2012 as they suffer from carbon build up and short circuit the injectors which makes them cut out when driving along so they was replaced under the recall it was ok to start of with and pulled really hard at first when they was done,but over a period of time the car has became harder and harder to start it takes three or four atempts to fire up with the key and is even worse in the cold weather and sometimes needs the throttle to start it, but when it fires into life it runs really really lumpy for a few minutes and goes when it has warmed up a bit but has a slight lost of power like its holding back on low rpm when driving along, there is no signs of smoke or any ecm/pcm lights on the dash and is still returning 530miles on a tank full of fuel which i run on the shell v-power diesel all the time. have changed the fuel again this weekend the car seem a bit more responsive power wise bout not alot better and the car still has the starting issues have been on the phone today to skoda (carrs) in cornwall have been told to check the exhaust on start up to see if puffs out any black smoke when its trying to start, if does have been told its a glow plug fault as it can not heat up the fuel and throws it throught the exhaust, if it doesnt puff any smoke etc, it is another issue and that i should get it plugged into dignostic machine to see if has stored fault codes but this has left me scratching my head a little just want to get it sorted driving crackers any other surguestions would be great thanks