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Thanks for your help e-roottoot, your threads make very good and interesting reading. If I may I'd like to point the Motoring Ombudsman who is conducting an enquiry into VAG concerning my case. Until now the ombudsman was unable to find any reason why the early mileage fault had any validity. I suspect this was a response from VAG rather than the efforts of the Ombudsman's research into numbers of early mileage Turbocharger Failures. Clearly there have been recalls and fixes to the Wastegate Actuators for some considerable time. I thank all the members for their responses and help. What a great and considerate Community you have here, long may it go on. I'll try to keep you updated on any progress I make. Stay Safe everyone . Thanks for your help e-roottoot, your threads make very good and interesting reading. If I may I'd like to point the Motoring Ombudsman who is conducting an enquiry into VAG concerning my case. Until now the ombudsman was unable to find any reason why the early mileage fault had any validity. I suspect this was a response from VAG rather than the efforts of the Ombudsman's research into numbers of early mileage Turbocharger Failures. Clearly there have been recalls and fixes to the Wastegate Actuators for some considerable time. I thank all the members for their responses and help. What a great and considerate Community you have here, long may it go on. I'll try to keep you updated on any progress I make. Stay Safe everyone .

Thanks e-roottoot for your response to my request re- Low Mileage Turbocharger Failures with 1.2TSI Yeti 110 PS Outdoor 2015 Model. It was exactly using search engine Keywords which brought me to this site my friend, my rationale being that the best people to get information from will be fellow owners in the first instance. No one driving a vehicle with this type of Turbocharger should be subject to their engine failing on a Motorway especially at such a short mileage. When you buy a new car you expect the engine to last more than 30000 miles before such a catastrophic Failure. I have not been short of replies since I first posted in this Community , for which I'm grateful, some helpful, some not. If you could point me to these threads I'd be grateful. I'm a seventy four year old Gentleman, ex HGV Driver, ex NCB Engineer, ex Royal Navy who has found difficulty catching up with modern technology but trying hard to find my way!! All assistance well received. thanks again e-roottoot.

Many thanks Llanigraham for your response to my quest for information re- Turbocharger Failure. Could you please expand on your knowledge of the lack of claims within the VAG for Turbocharger failure, I'm assuming that you'll have the number of failures in order to establish your comments,. this is what I'm attempting to establish. Your help in the knowledge and numbers you have of this matter will be gratefully received and helpful in my quest for information. I'm not quite sure how your further information about chips on shoulder is relevant in my quest to gather information on Turbocharger failures. Perhaps you could expand on that as well. Thanks again for posting.

Hi logiclee, The official line given to us by the service manager at the Skoda Dealership where we bought the Yeti outdoor SE TSI 110 ps new , and have always had it serviced and maintained , was as follows : IN WRITING, Our diagnosis found a fault code stored in the memory of the vehicle relating to the seizure of the wastegate internally within the Turbo. A TPI is available for this issue/repair. Unfortunately I am not able to pass this Bulletin on to members of the public. ON TELEPHONE, It was the actuator to the wastegate which gets rid of the excess loading of the gasses to the Turbocharger . { Explained to me by the service manager, after I had been scraped off the ceiling following the cost reveal !! } I am trying to get some satisfaction now from Skoda in relation to The Consumer Rights Act 2015,{not fit for purpose}. However because of the time delay, and being out of warranty, despite the low mileage, {30570 } when the incident occurred, the onus of proving that the part which had failed was not fit for purpose, is up to me to prove. Hence this attempt to warn others in the Briskoda Community of the danger, and of course, gathering evidence to forward my case with Skoda which began in July 2020. Any relevant help from the Affected members of the Briskoda Community would be most welcome.

Thanks for the reply. I'm new on here and still finding my feet. Has anyone challenged Skoda about the Turbocharger Wastegate failures at such low mileage ?

Many thanks for your response. When the incident occurred I asked the Service Manager at the Dealership to retain the broken Turbocharger for an independent Inspection as I wanted to know why the wastegate had seized. I was told that because the part was part of the service exchange scheme it had to go back to Skoda to enable a full new unit to be used for mine. So it looks as though I have been denied the opportunity to discover that the wastegate could be changed without replacing the whole unit. The water becomes clearer now.

Thanks for posting the information about the low mileage Turbocharger failures on the TSi 1.2 Yet . Am fighting for cost of repair to my 2015 Yeti 1.2 TSi Turbo wastegate failed at just below 30 ,000 miles. Not fit for purpose. Wish I'd known about the fault prior to purchase. Charged £1,640 for replacement. Any more info on cause of failure would be appreciated