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Considering I live in regional Australia (mind you it's the 7th largest city), I'm not surprised that they haven't heard of this failure and they are trying to get Skoda onside to fix it. The insult more was from the servicer (Audi) saying I was 'lucky' to get anything as they don't 'have to' provide a new engine as it's out of warranty. Surely a 4 year old car should not need a new engine and I could 'reasonably expect' to get MUCH longer out of it than this. It's the 6 speed manual, petrol 2.0 VRS. Just wouldn't start. Left me stranded and had to get it towed. It had the emissions/engine light on in the dash for 8 days while I waited to get it booked in. I did go to the servicer the 2nd day after the light came on though and they told me there were quite a few errors and they needed it longer to look into it. Then I had to wait for an available spot to book it in to get looked at. Of course it failed midday the day prior to my scheduled booking! So far only verbal agreement to the Audi service manager that skoda will cover the engine cost, not labour. He thinks I get a 2-year warranty on the new engine. I've contacted Skoda Australia through Facebook, waiting on a call back. Do you know if this 'new engine' is a reconditioned one? Or brand new? The current ones they're manufacturing don't fit in the 09 model ... I'm also out of pocket rental car costs ... :(

Just had the timing chain tensioner fail in my 2009 skoda octavia TSI 2.0 VRS turbo. I bought the car new from a dealer in Brisbane, Australia in August 2010. 3-year warranty is finished by about 9 months. Audi / VW servicing in Newcastle say they have never seen this problem, but obviously it is a known fault, as we've done a fair bit of searching online. Skoda have 'verbally' said they will pay to replace the entire engine ($12,000 AUD), but I have to pay labour for install of about $3,000! Anyone in Australia have this happen and replaced? Pretty disappointing, as we love the Octavia and we haven't had it 4 years yet and it's only got 62,000km!