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never had these problems with my morris minor lol

ok thanks

the DPF light only came on once b4 i had the engine sorted it came on 3 weeks after , i only do short journeys i dont think that helps a diesel engine . the oil sensor light only came on after the engine repair ,i assume like you suspect there is oil in the exhaust as i looked at the turbos the mechanic showed me was totally siezed up i did wonder if thes fault code readers are any good off ebay to reset the codes

im 65 guess im not the youngest

yes i only do short journeys i think thats why the diesel particle light is coming on

Hi all got my superb mk1 back a couple of weeks ago new oil pump .Turbo etc not exactly cheap.luckily there was no engine damage !!!! .now the oil sensor warning light is coming on approx once a week and also the diesel particle filer light is now on all the time local garage said give it a good blast down the motorway to shift the particles in the exhaust to extinguish it ,just wondered why the oil sensor warning light comes on the oil levels ok and no leaks wondered if it was owt worth worrying about the mechanic said it could be a bit of moisture around the connection any ideas ?

ok thanks for that .i think Skoda have a nerve charging £1200 for an inherent engine pil pump problem that obviously they knew about ,put me right off skodas wish id never bought one

i wonder is it possible to rplace the faulty 2.0 tdi engine for the 1.9 engine ?

hi Roto got 78,000 miles so far out of my superb till the pump went last week is it feasible to think if i replaced the hex drive and cleaned the sump filter i could get another few thousand miles out of it ?

thats exactly what i did replacing the oil and filter at 4,000 mile intervals but my oil pump still failed

i changed the oil and filter on my 07 superb every 4,000 miles but i still had the oil pump failure top quality oil and genuine skoda filter all to no avail im sorry but i am seriously fed up with Skoda

i contacted SUK but got nowhere they dont seem to care about customer relations at all there not interested , i have the same superb oil pump problem , the problem to me seems the very small shaft driving a larger shaft which is considerably larger it seems to me fairly obvious the hex key is going to round off , try turning a shaft with an allen key there is hardly any contact its obviously going to fail after a few thousand miles

if only id bought an Octavia instead

The latest modification to the oil pump balancer shaft came in ,in 2011 cost around £1,000 plus fitting

Hi Roto i wondered is it possible to replace the faulty 2.0 tdi engine with the good engine with no inherent problems or would that **** everything up ?

Agree they obviously knew about this problem , absolutely awful oil pump design ,Does the modified oil pump kit sort the problem out ? 900 quid i got quoted plus fitting ,these people who are vocal about skodas doing 200.000 miles plus obviously havent got this dreaded engine

OK thanks for that i didnt really think it was feasible ,basically you need the full replacement modified 2011 oil pump kit then ? or can you just buy the balancer unit and the drive key the garage repairing the car have a new oil pump £178 you dont know really what options to take if you fit this new modified oil pump and there has been some damage done to the engine you'd be throwing your money away as theres no real way of knowing if the engine is damaged i only drove roughly half a mile before turning the engine off so hopefully no damage will have been done !!! Only certain Chassis numbers were affected in the VAG range so VAG must have known about the problem ,they were very evasive when i spoke to them ,

yes it is a great car, pity about the engines that are affected ,even ford diesels with not a very good reputation you can expect at least a 100,000 miles with no problems

I wondered if it was possible to weld up the allen key to the coupler by a specialist welder ,does that sound feasible ,maybe your guy who came up with his own solution would know if welding was feasible ,i dont fancy spending £1,600 on a skoda updated 2011 oil pump kit , i have sent a letter off to Skoda about this oil pump problem but doubt i'll get anywhere ,to be honest i think the cars affected should have been recalled ,not happy at all any advice would be appreciated ronnie

hope not the engine revs died down i went approx half a mile ,the garage man said the engine sounded fine i suppose you wont know until after a few miles This might sound a bit silly but would it be possible to get a specialist welder to weld the hex drive key to the pump assembly ?

so thats whats wrong with my superb oil pump then ;i contacted Skoda UK about this oil pump problem and they immediately knew the part number i needed ,obviously a known fault they have tried to keep quiet about

i would ad also that not many Skos da owners visit this site only the savvy ones skodas

i contacted Skoda about my oil pump problem its an 07 plate they quoted me around a grand for the replacement part plus of course labour costs on top my Superb has hardly done any miles at all 78,000 they also said the part was updated in 2011 ? so how many engines have been affected by oil pump failure ,i suspect there are a lot more than we know about im not knocking Skodas but this oil pump problem seems to have been kept quiet i maybe wrong

your car has done a lot less than mine in mileage terms yet it seems you also hAD oil pump failure it seems the oil pump modification was introduced in 2011 so it makes you wonder how many VW AUDI and SODAS are affected there must be hundreds

when i called Skoda UK i was quoted a part number replacement oil pump sump etc £957 i realise mechanical things need replacing but i think this oil pump problem has somehow been kept quiet i only came across it on this site ,my skoda has only done 78,000 miles i expected a lot more to be honest being a diesel ,the car has had regular oil changes and servicing .the person i spoke to was basically not interested and told me to take it to a skoda dealer.which would cost at least £2,000 for an engine that has basically done very few miles i am seriously not happy with skoda and am considering calling watchdog i am not at all happy with my Skoda Superb