Mickmartin

Pretty easy when you’ve done to once buddy , You only need to Jack up the drivers side and go in through the wheel arch and bonnet, No more than 3-4 hours. Remove the lower boost pipe, supercharger cover, 2 Aux belts held by tensioners require an angled 16mm spanner or the official vag tool T10241or bodge yourself up a bent spanner.Use 16mm spanner To hold the charger shaft and loosen the supercharger pulley and pop the 2 aux belts off. 2 bolts hold on the supercharger bracket and 4 screws to take of the water pump. Fit new pump and do everything in reverse. P.S All the part numbers are listed in another thread

Buy the water pump first, Its less than £70 from amazon ,£180 was the cheapest I could get it at a local motor factors with a trade discount. To put it into perspective Skoda wanted £550, coast me less than £100 to do myself and that included replacing the 2 aux belts and 2 hours of my time.

For an mk2 fabia VRS? Chain kit cost me £120 from TPS, £30 for the tensioner, water pump £67(Amazon), timing tools £20(eBay) The tensioner has been revised 4 or 5 times the since fabia came out the factory, To the point they changed it completely for the tsi's but you can pick up the latest version that will fit yours for £30, To change the tensioner only its still an oil drain, Supercharger cover removal, Remove water pump, remove 2 auxiliary belts, cover off, 2 screws hold the tensioner in, Then there's replacing the chain cover gasket etc. All that effort you'd be as well replacing the chain and pump. In terms of how difficult is it? If you've never stripped the water pump and charger pulleys down, It can be a nightmare but simple when you know the correct method. Timing is pretty straight forward as everything turns anti clockwise apart from inlet cam pulley is reverse thread and needs turned clockwise. An hour to strip down and an hour to do the timing chain if experienced, add another couple of hours of swearing if its you first time. I have the work manual if you decide do it yourself, and If I could give any advise.......Purchase the vag specific angled spanner tool (T10060A) or be prepared to start bending 16mm spanners to fit.

Get it plugged in, it will no doubt be a P0175 or P17BF error which would therefor mean it can most likely be fixed for less than £200, You wouldn't get clutch slip in every gear due to the dual clutches so rule out the clutch. What i think will be your problem is that your hydraulic accumulator or mechatronic body has failed and is losing pressure when attempting to select gears, This can be removed with the gearbox still on the car so not the worst job. As for value, £1200 is around the asking price for a decent CAVE fabia with engine or gearbox failure and decent bodywork but expect to get knocked down as they be hard to shift without breaking.

The clutch packs themselves will set you around £330-400 for the LUK version alone then there's labour added on top. When the box is dropped the clutch packs can be changed in under an hour if competent. Most garages your looking at £800-1200 supplied and fitted. Under £400 if you do it yourself, Again there is plenty of guidance out there albeit VW/SKODA say you require special tools, A Vernier gauge can do the same job.

Tons of tutorials on youtube bud, The dq200 requires 2 different oils, 1.7 litre's of G 052 171 gearbox oil and 1 litre of G 004 000 hydraulic oil, Both are easily drained from sump plugs located in the underside of the box. I serviced my box at 50000 miles(80467km) for piece of mind and as for the clutch.....It really depends on usage and how hard the cars been driven, there's not really definitive as I know people who are reaching 140-150k on the original clutch.

Complete myth mate, Your right it is dry however I service my own and will continue to do so. Early issues were a faulty gear selector, wouldn't find 6th or reverse, they soon revised that part, The other single main issue was mechatronics in country's with high humidity ie Asia and Oceanic country's, In the UK early models were fixed under warranty as VW group decided to put the wrong oil in the boxes and it started to corrode parts. Baring in mind these boxes were first rolled out in 2007, until almost 2016 there wasn't parts ready available to fix these so anyone who got fobbed off to "Skoda/VW" or a " dsg specialist" more than likely got told they needed a new mech, new clutch or the lot and charged literally thousands, In comparison a £3500 fix cans now be fixed for under £200 and what would be a £1200 clutch can be supplied and fitted for as little as £400 and If its any consolation, in 2019 Skoda Vrchlabi celebrated producing 3 million dq200's since 2012, Decent numbers for a crap gearbox! Also if you need any evidence that there's are tough little units, I'll show you 500bhp getting put through one.

DQ200 is a great box and easily serviceable.

You'll pick up a whole car for under £1500 if you ever head that route, Going rate is usually around £1200 with gearbox or engine issues ,I managed to pick one up a 2011 for £750 with a simple mechatronics fix.

Bare in mind, You can pretty much pick up a whole car for the money some breakers want for an engine, Break the car and make your money back if your heading this route.

I'm sure I read the OP put "steel seal" in as a quick fix to repair the head gasket, This could in theory cause blockages as I personally wouldn't dare put that or similar products like rad weld etc in a modern car, never mind of these little complexed engines.

I think this may be your end result bud, As soon as I read that head gasket had been done and the head had been skimmed alarm bells rang as I haven’t once heard of anyone having this issue in my years owning one of these(that’s baring in mind there’s 2k members over on the Mk2 vrs Facebook page and not came across one) Yep you need to remove a sh*tload of stuff , including the cams to access the head bolts Hence why I asked if the garage had mentioned if they had done the timing chain etc as it would have been wise to as it’s recommended. Strip it down, Check the cylinder head for distortion and have piece of mind someone competent done the job this time. Can send you over the workshop manual if you need it.

Cap off and and give all radiator hoses a good squeeze, Fully bled my coolant system last week and it was minging, don't let the coolant colour in the bottle fool you. If it was a air lock in I’d imagine the EML light would come on and fire the car Into limp mode as the supercharger wouldn’t engage. As I said before , head gaskets on these are a rarity, to blow or crack the head….Somethings went majorly wrong, I’d be trying to find out if that was fixed or what caused it. Have you got contact with the previous owner? Would hate to think it’s had a failing water pump and somebody’s jumped the gun and replaced the head gasket and not done it properly.

How many miles has it done? Its extremely rare that one of these has or needed a new head gasket, You may be the first person that I've ever heard of having it done as in reality the exhaust valves and guides, lifters, followers and timing chain set? I dint want to say it didn't need a new head, Its just a rarity on these.

More than likely the wrong plugs have been fitted during your service.

£1200 for £100 part is a sore one! As for the misfires, Was it misfirng before it went in for the mech unit?

Hard to beat dealer prices for these.

What plugs did you go for?

They'll send him packing and toward a DSG specialist or quote him for a recondition or whole new mech.

Yeah mate, you have a couple of options....... But its advisable that you strip the mech down to see what the exact issue is, 90% of the time its a hairline in the body of the accumlator. Full kinergo costs about £260 - thats the body, accumulator, all gaskets,oil pan - Full repair kit Speed kit - accumulator, sump gasket, seal - Speed kit I'm positive you'll only need to replace this part thought - DQ200 - Accumulator Housing and there's tons of tutorial videos online etc showing how to change the parts. I've seen people pay thousands for the same fix on here and other forums, Had garages tell people they need new clutches, gearboxes etc.......Now that the dq200 is such a common gearbox theres plenty of fixe's around.

Yep your correct, The accumulator in your mechatronic has lost hydraulic pressure, Very common fault. This is cause by almost microscopic cracks that eventually cause the accumulator to fail. The new part can be picked up for around £60-100 however and the big however is......How handy are you with tools? it can be changed on kerbside/driveway without removing the DQ200 gearbox. If you aren't willing to change it yourself I'd highly recommend you explain to your local garage/mechanic of this job as they well all point you toward gearbox/DSG specialist that will charge you £1000 upwards, Most mechanics wont touch it as they think DSG'S are only to be meddled with by specialists, I disagree as its a fairly simple fix.

More than likely the wrong plug's or coils were fitted? To have 4 cylinder's misfiring isn't usually the sign that your going to lose a piston with with these engines and with you having the CTHE build its even more unlikely, Tends to be one cylinder that gives or 2 if your really unlucky. Grab yourself a set of compression tools from amazon for round £15. You'll soon find an answer.

Should have mention this option.......Standard wheel to flat bottom .

I would be worried if its making any metal on metal noises ,These boxes don't tend to make any noise even at high mileage. As for servicing....Its the owners choice, I've serviced mine, There's absolutely 0% harm in servicing it.

or 4 grand Porsche wheels on a clapped out stance'd golf. In terms of upgrades, There's many across the skoda range available.....Its who you know that could do the coding and the cost.