Brianjuk

I have just bought a 2019 Octavia VRS estate, but I did it see any post ‘18 cars with full leather. Is it possible to fit the heated leather from a 2016 or 17 car in a 2019 car? (I already have heated front seats) did any later cars get full leather in the diamond stitched pattern or was it just 1/2 leather alcantra (I can never spell that)?

Well, the Superb didn’t last long! It had engine issues and went back to the selling dealer. ☹️👍 now the dust has settled and I have daily driven a half restored basket case clio sport 182 for a couple of months I’ve finally found a worthy replacement, so hello again from a 2019 Octavia VRS tdi 4x4 owner. Let’s hope this one is a bit more long term…😂

To draw a line under this. I have today had the car collected and a full refund of the purchase price. A positive shout-out to Silverline Motors of Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan. now to find a replacement…

What stats should I be particularly concerned with. I have a code reader that will access the dpf data effectively. I assume spot load, distance since last regen, and ash load. Anything else?

I have seen a superb 190 dsg l&k in my price range but it’s a private sale. All checks out well and has 113k, full history, 2dsg services and a cambelt. I’d there any way of identifying the sort of issues I’ve had BEFORE I buy it this time…😂 (if I go for it, it’s overpriced at present so I need to haggle)

I am not fussed on mileage so long as it has good history. I’d much prefer DSG to manual, realistically it’s a high spec se-l or and L&K ive split out the needs from the nice to haves. I’m my list. The needs are Apple CarPlay, heated leather, acc.

Fair point.

Scores so to speak. I have officially rejected the car today: it is still using 1.35l per 1000miles of oil there is a suspension creak (I suspect front arb) the battery has died and it is giving every indication that the dpf is rapidly clogging up again. let’s see if the dealer honours their word. I hope so…. If they do I will not name and shame. if anyone knows of a good Octavia or superb estate for sale as follows, please let me know: must have: ULEZ compliant. 1.4tsi or 2.0tdi heated leather acc Apple CarPlay heated front screen Much prefer: beige leather panoramic roof park pilot DCC suspension Limit is £15k

So, as suspected the car is still chomping oil. I will drive the rest of the 1000 miles and get the garage to note the oil used. here is an out there question, I have been planning to reject it under the sale of goods act and that is probably the course I will still take, but superb l&k estates with DSG and good history are scarce in my price bracket and I’m a bit concerned I might end up with another duffer. what about seeing if I could push the selling dealer to fund a replacement engine? Am I in cloud cuckoo land for even thinking that?

Not gone away but nothing to report yet. I have had the dpf cleaned and the oil changed. BUT I have caught Covid and it has properly done me over so no chance I’ll get enough miles driven to update any time soon. ☹️ pretty sure the news will not be good. The car used another 1/2 litre in the last 300 miles. My local vag specialist, who did the oil change suggested the oil burning is the real reason that the dpf keeps clogging and won’t regen. They think that explains why the dpf light seems to come on more on the motorway than around town. Next step, as soon as I’m well enough, is to get a few hundred motorway miles on it and see where we are at….

Always. I’m with Sam Goldwyn. “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”

I have spoken to the dealer and I am cautiously positive. what we have agreed is that they will pay for the car to be diagnosed, have the dpf removed and cleaned, the inlet tract and dpf cleaned at a terraclean centre of my choice. if, after that and an oil change, the car uses oil in the next 1000miles they will take it back and give a full refund. that seems pretty reasonable to me. What do you think?

Engine off. Pressure differential 0hPa differential pressure sensor static offset: 0hPa

It flicked the low oil warning light on, I parked it up, let it sit and checked the dipstick, where the level was too low to touch it. I am also shocked that the low oil warning came so late. My 2004 clio, and all previous newer cars have all been better in that respect. Not a great design choice IMO

Assuming I didn’t mess up checking it when I bought it, that would be 1.5l in 850 miles. I have reached out to the selling dealer. We will see what is offered.

Writing that email now. 👍

I have owned it for two weeks. The warranty is a year. I assume rejecting it will be harder the longer it goes. I’m torn about doing that because the dealer does not have an alternative car I’d take and does still have my old car which I really wouldn’t want back. I’d have to somehow get cash while leaving my old car there. If I could get this one properly fixed that would be my preferred option.

Thanks. I do understand that, but it lets people know how it was driven. If I keep it, once the dpf is sorted, I need to retrofit a speed limiter (missing because I have an early ACC) and then I’m happy to drive it by foot and see what MPG I can get.

So I found a secluded industrial estate road and did a forced regen with my icarsoft diagnostic tool. all a bit odd. The regen started: turbo upstream temp climbed to 560deg temp before particle filter climbed to 640deg Temp after particle filter climbed to 592deg thw temps stayed pretty static for an hour or so and then the revs dropped and all 3 temps dropped to the 130s but the regen never showed as complete. After about another 30mins at idle with similar temps I gave up and cancelled it. post aborted regen the situation is worse: calculated soot is now: 0.17g measured soot is now: 25.80g ash is the same as before. i am thinking next steps is to book it into a local VAG specialist for proper diagnosis, because I will need paperwork to hit the dealer with for whatever my next steps are. What do you think?

I have had the car a fortnight from the selling dealer. I am leaning toward money back and return it, or they pay for a dpf remove and clean. The issue is that I PX’d against it and I really don’t want that car back. 😂 I need to see if my diagnostic tool can force a regeneration as a starting point.

So my diag tool did work (albeit painfully slow) and: Oil ash mass: 57.60g Oil ash volume: 0.14l Soot calculated: 13.71g Soot measured: 22.69g Distance since last regeneration: 11658m Time since last regeneration: 1120s i assume that is not ideal… History wise: it has had 2 brake fluid changes, 2 out of the 3 DSG services (75k and last this year at 120k) timing belt in late 2020 at 100k no notes of previous issues of this nature. no notes of oil being bought outside of service time ( I have all records from the last few years down to odds and ends bought on eBay for the car. so I’m pretty sure this is not a known long term fault from the PO.

Thx so much Varoom. I will start and see if I can read those values with my diagnostic tool. If not, there is one VCDS owner nearby and I’ll reach out to them. I will update the thread as I go.

Thanks Toot. I will check through the history. air filter is an obvious good shout. And I will check wheel temps after a drive to see if it has a binding brake. I too think it is doing/trying multiple regens, but have no idea where to start at checking. My icarsoft diagnostic is pretty unusable when a car has this many systems, it grinds to a halt. I didn’t know that the batteries needed coded to the car. Pretty sure that didn’t happen. I’ll see if my diag is up to that. I am shocked that service essentials are optional on the dealer history. I will wade theo the receipts. I hear you on the other things. I will check, but things like brake fluid, while good shouts for longevity, are not going to be causing that mpg, and I need to start with the elephant in the room before it is worth considering anything else. I did check the fluids etc, but the dipstick had an ingrained oily soot deposit that looked like a full oil level even when wiped. Schoolboy error… Tbh, I shouldn’t have bought it in the circumstances. It was dark, raining and I was shattered. I had been to see what I thought was ‘the one’ and it was a complete wreck. This was an on a whim, on the way back detour because the car I had previously needed to be gone asap. this one presented well, the dealer had excellent reviews, and the warranty package is good. I know the area it came from, which is a good one, and the stack of receipts is huge. (Shame about the dark brown leather tho😳)

Two things I forgot: -the car is 2wd -the battery is a nearly new Yuasa 096 and when I put it on my smart charge shows as being fully charged and in good condition

Hi. I have recently bought a 125k 2016 superb 2.0 tdi 148 DSG estate L&K. The car is lovely, drives well, (apart from a slight suspension creak) and feels like it has good power BUT so far I have managed a best of 31.1mpg. That is driving like a SAINT, in eco mode, on a long motorway journey (cruise @ 70) and a little gentle a road. min normal mode on 50/50 long motorway a road I got 29.9mpg from the second tank. Again, driving VERY gently and using cruise as much as possible. No traffic jams or city use. any ideas what I need to check? I bought it expecting to get a minimum of 46/47 mpg in open road driving and this is nuts the other points that may relate are: - Stop start only works very occasionally. Most of the time the engine stays running when stationary. - The cooling fan almost always runs for several minutes after parking up at the end of a journey. - I have had it on a fault code reader and the only fault I can see is that there is some sort of movable radiator blanking flap that seems to be not reacting to commands. - The DPF light came on toward the end of the first motorway journey in the car (about 200miles in) and stayed on for the next 40 miles or so until I parked. It was not in the next time I started and had not come back on since. - It seems to be using some oil. I don’t know where the oil was when I bought it, when I checked today it was low and needed 1.5l to bring it up to max on the dipstick. Tyres are Michelin cross climate (19”) at the correct pressures. fuel is vPower diesel the car has a full dealer history and is not due another service for 5k miles or 230 days. MPG is measured brim to brim over a full tank, not from the computer (which is showing around 40mpg)