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So I had some time today to get the car up on the lift and check some things: - oil level sensor wiring seems fine - I checked with VCDS - no errors. - I checked with Launch diagnose - intermittent error on the oil level/temp sensor - which brand do you recommend I should buy? - apparently my octavia 2 vrs CEGA engine doesn’t have a dsg thermostat, so I can’t replace that - I will buy the main thermostat and replace that one instead - hopefully it solves the slow heating up - besides these - would you advise on some preemptive maintenance I should do on the car? (It’s my first skoda) 😁

Awesome, I’ll look into it. Thx guys!

It jumps from 105 to 135, then back to 9x, then jumps again. It does this for a while, then stays steady between 85-9x. Then jumps again. It’s very unsteady. I also don’t really think it actually reaches 150x, the oil at those temps doesn’t really offer lubrication/cooling anywhere. Turbo would die instantly 😂

The oil temps were fluctuating like that before the oil change and flush. i did the oil change and flush because O thought it’s old/bad oil in the car.

I’ll try cleaning that pipe and see what happens. Thx a lot!

Thanks for the detailed answer. but my coolant temp never went past 90. my OIL temps are going haywire

Can you tag him here please? 🙏 This is something that's really bugging me, and would like to hear some opinions before I start taking it apart to replace anything that has to do with the cooling system haha

So, I recently bought myself a Skoda Octavia vRS 2.0 TDI 170, CEGA engine, 2010. Car has 213000 km right now. Timing has been done by the previous owner at 206000. I replaced: - radiator - intercooler - airco condenser - fan shrouds - oil LiquiMoly TopTec 4200 5w30 alongside a Liqui engine flush + motor protect - I still have ordered the DSG thermostat to replace it - because I see it takes a long time for the coolant temp to reach "90" on the dash, and sometimes it fluctuates (sometimes drops to 85, sometimes to 70), so DSG thermostat is in the plan for replacement. My issue is, and something that I can't seem to figure out, I see my oil temps on the dash spiking pretty often, even reaching 150 degrees on a 100 km/h speed cruising on the highway, that doesn't seem normal in my opinion. So most of the times it just stays between 85-105. Then it spikes around 120-130, then goes back down. This morning on the way to work (it was a 85 km drive), it spiked to 150 and stayed in the 130-140 degrees area for the last 15-20 min of the drive. Is there another thermostat that I should replace? Afaik the car has the coolant radiator, the dsg oil cooler and the oil cooler on the oil filter housing. And the latter 2 are also using coolant, could all these issues be caused by the dsg thermostat? Coolant level hasn't dropped at all since the replaced parts mentioned above, I have no errors on the car. Average fuel consumption is between 5-5.5 l/100km, so that seems alright also. DPF oil ash volume is around 140 ml. So that would also seem fine according to the km the car has, dpf is doing it's regens. Anyone else had issues like this? Or has any pointers?