Joellesonjia

Hi, we've been amazed at the amount of stories found on forums concerning the BXE engine. Ours went last week, the con rod breaking then the crankshaft blasting it through the bottom of the engine, the jolt of the engine broke the exhaust brackets and the turbo is screwed too, all this whilst driving in the outside lane of the M40 on a Friday afternoon! Sales and service staff at our local Skoda were very unhelpful, offering us £1000 for our 2009 Octavia estate, bought from them at a year old and serviced regularly by them!! One of the mechanics came and spoke to us on the side and mentioned that he has seen this problem before, but never quite as bad as ours. If I can figure out how to post a photo I will. Anyway we shall be making a formal complaint and as Skoda want 6k to fix it we shall be looking for an engine ourselves and getting somebody else to do the job. Being faithful to Skoda has got us nowhere. I can say we'll definitely be getting in touch with DVSA to report this and can only urge others to do the same.

Just joined this forum after googling problems with the VW 1.9 TDi engine. My other half was driving home on the M40 last week when the engine blew on his 5 year old Octavia. 120k, full service history. It's wrecked! Checked the engine number and yes, it's a BXE!! Skoda garage wants 6k to replace the engine and turbo . Seems to be a lot of posts concerning this. What the hell is going on? All of you that are surprised and haven't had any problems with your BXE engines.....there's time yet. I must say, apart from that the car has been great, so we're really disappointed. Will definitely be following this up.