SteveDon

Yes, it's the transmission oil filter housing with top broken off. Heaven knows why but quite frankly I'm just glad it's a straightforward fix. Oil and filter are freely available, this housing is dealer or specialist only but hopefully getting one on Monday 👍

Don't need to be a DSG expert to spot the problem here 😉 Like I said, sudden catastrophic loss of oil. Easy fix anyway. Thanks for the comments 👍

Yes Alasdair, many times, without issues. The car is being returned to me on Friday so I'll have the opportunity to inspect it and report back.

I will get it checked yes, but I want to see if there's anything obvious first. Are there cooling hoses that pass the oil through the radiator like some of the Audis? Apparently the O rings can pop out if not properly installed. I've never replaced myself but? The oil I could see sitting on top before it was towed away was gin clear and smelled like oil i.e. no metallic particles visible and no smell of burning. I was towing a 1200kg caravan at the time along the A48 out of South Wales but it wasn't struggling and gear changes were quite normal, engine temp at 90deg .

The car isn't here but from memory 130k ISH miles and it's probably 30k ISH since the last DSG oil/filter change. Similarly with Haldex. I've done the Haldex twice since I've owned the car. Based on a lot of YouTube footage, I cleaned the plastic gauze filter of gunge too. I have a favourite grassy hilly dewy paddock that I check the 4x4 in.

Thank you. Yes I was aware of that but even so, there seemed to be a sudden almost catastrophic loss of fluid/oil so what's failed and how do I fix it?

Coming home from Tenby a bong sounded commensurate with warning on the dash saying the transmission was getting hot. There was a distinct smell of transmission fluid too. I pulled over, popped the bonnet and the was quite a puddle sitting on top of the DSG. Called Green Flag (who were amazing cos we were towing a small caravan too). The car sitting in a secure compound for a few days until it can be returned so I can't look at it. It's a 2013 mk 2 Octavia Scout 4x4 6 speed DSG, well maintained, and I think it happened quite suddenly.Any thoughts?

Sorted, turns out it was one tooth out. Nice to know that the belt can be re timed without a complete strip down.

Greetings, my first post I've changed my timing belt on a 2013 Octavia Scout mk 2 with 2.0 tdi cr engine, code CFCH. I now have the "crankshaft position camshaft position correlation (bank 1 sensor a)" error P0016 I double checked crank, camshaft, fuel pump and tensioner so I'm reluctant to strip the whole lot again until I've ruled out other potential faults first. My neighbour has Vcds but hasn't used it much yet so 2 questions, where is the plug from the camshaft sensor? I want to check that. Question 2, bearing in mind we have little knowledge of VCDS yet, is there anything we can do to check the timing with it. Thanks in advance.