MaciejO

Year of registration: 2015 (65 plate) Engine: 2.0 TDI vRS 184 Mileage when fault occurred: 51,400 Miles Dealer name & response (i.e. "don't want to know"/"yep, they all do that"/other): Funnily enough the car was booked in to an independent VAG specialist for timing, cambelt and water pump at the end of this month as its due. £440 all in. Any other info. (Full Skoda service history/independent?): 3 first services up carried out by Skoda with previous owner and then the rest carried out by myself. The car did a lot of short journeys since April as I took additional job as delivery driver to support the family during covid. Recently after driving for about 5 minutes (first start up of the day) the coolant temp gauge in the car shown 90 deg c but then 1 minute later started rising past 90 deg c which was odd as it never happened before. I pulled over, waited for couple of minutes and then temperature dropped back to 90 deg c and stayed there until the end of the night. I have plugged in my OBD reader the next morning and took the car for a drive and same thing happened. Temp shot up to 110 deg c, dropped down and stayed there until the rest of the day. It seems like its fine after the car warms up properly? I have also noticed that the fuel economy drops significantly during that first 5-10 minutes of the drive until the engine temp rises beyond 90 deg and drops back down. I have drove the car last night aswell and the temp went to 118 deg c on my OBD reader so after getting back home it got parked up and will not be driven until fixed. I know its another topic but does anyone know what the pressure on the fuel pressure rail should be as I had a reading of about 1700 bar recently under full load? Thanks! Maciej