Sam-octy-vrs

Found it dangling under the air box

Can anyone tell me where this is meant to be located on a octavia mk2 facelift vrs TSI petrol?? Found it just hanging loose and can't find where it's mean to go!

That all makes perfect sense, il have a crack at it after work tomorrow. Since I've owned the car the throttle body hasn't been cleaned at all, just over 2 years. I bought it on 99k miles and it's around 116500 miles now. I would like to add, incase its relevant, that the smoke has come more frequently since I had the car fitted with a 3" downpipe and decat. I had this done around Feb this year along with a new clutch and other bits. I have had a little look online about the pcv valve and so far everything points in that direction. Thanks again and il be back on tomorrow with what I can find!

Thank you for your reply. It's hard to give you accurate information as your not always looking in the rear view mirror to see the smoke! It's not all the time, its probably 1 in 10 drives or maybe slightly more that it tends to give off the smoke. If I think about it I would tend to say its more when I let off the throttle or when it's above 3k-3. 5k revs when accelerating hard. I've owned the car for a couple of years and serviced it last year, since the service I've topped the oil up once a couple of weeks ago when the light popped on so I wouldn't say it uses much oil at all really. I did pass it by my local mechanic before this corona virus came about and his initial thought was head gasket, (no signs of it on the way out) possibly the turbo or maybe oil getting into the intercooler. Apart from that I'm clueless! I will definitely have a look at the throttle body and pcv valve and check back my findings, thanks again!

Yea I think it's completely dry, I've not checked having said that but I will to make sure, to me it's more like smoke than steam. Coolant never goes down, no oil in the expansion tank, nk may under the cap so, to me, no signs of head gasket 🤷‍♂️ thought it may be the turbo? Or oil gathering in the intercooler?

Both when on power and off, it's like one cloud that then disappears. The car sometimes makes a slight cough when this happens but not always. Yea it's normally when it's warmed up but I can't be certain it's fully up to temperature. Temp gauge stays at 90 degrees, and it's on 116k miles, fully serviced with all stamps etc been looked after and not a ****ter lol really has me stumped

Hello, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction... I've owned my mk1 VRS for a couple of years now and had the odd problem here and there but this I can't seem to find what's causing it. Only when driving, occasionally the exhaust spits out white smoke. It never does this when idling and doesn't always do it when driving. It's usually one biggish plume of white smoke and then disappears within a few seconds, (happens more under harder driving) it's getting more frequent now than it used to (once every week or so) and is worrying me as I can't seem to find what's causing it. Doesn't lose water or oil, no mayo under the cap etc. As it doesn't happen when idling, I can't get a whiff of the smoke to give any more details on that! Can anyone help???

Had the thermostat replaced yesterday...so far no issues at all, temperature sitting at 90 as usual 🙂 so glad I found this thread before considering scrapping her!

I have the exact same thing gone wrong with my Octy mk1 vrs... Overheating badly 110+ degrees, I suspected water pump failure but after having it go in the garage, the mechanic said they dye/pressure tested it and the colour had changed! He said headgasket failure and that il need to have it sent off to be skimmed, new water pump and cam belt kit. There's no mayo, the coolant hasn't gone down and no other obvious signs to be HGF. The car drives absolutely fine with no faults other than the temp running high when sat in traffic and returns to 90 degrees when moving 40mph+. What I really want to know is did the thermostat permanently fix the issue or did it come back??? The cars only done 113k, very well looked after with ful service history right up to about 2 months ago