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stuffed? I have a second car this one owes me next to nothing I'm far from stuffed lol I'd call it an annoyance which I don't have time for right now. Stuffed not at all... If I binned it tomorrow it would cost me very little.

I gave as much insight as I could. I explained in depth what happened and why I was here. And 100% agree plenty have brough good advice to the table. My intent was to get a camera in the head before doing anything. I read that it was an interference engine which told me it was going to have caused damage but figured there would potentially be others that had the same bad luck and that I would learn what route they took.

why would my belt failing panic others? My car and my circumstances are not reason for anyone with a 2.0 tdi to panic lol If the title was 'clickbate' and I had said 'Skoda Octavia 2.0tdi bad design timing belt fail' then you might have a point. I don't have time to split hairs mate, just walk on by if your not going to fetch anything of any worth to the table... I don't need schooling thank you very much.

Think on? You feel that me having a title that says snapped timing belt will put others off buying a Skoda? Or that it is misleading? It seems to have drawn enough people here to offer good advice so from my standpoint the title does what it was intended to do.

Right but what difference does that make with my situation? The belt has failed irrespective of anything that is what I need to address the past has no relevance what so ever as I'm not trying to sell the car here. Essentially if the belt has gone which it has and given it happened how it did and given its an interference engine what is the best move moving forward. I'm not here for people to diagnose why it happened.....

Its too late to look back, 'would have, could have, should have serves no gain other than gratitude to the person scorning (not suggesting that that is your intent btw)

The car was bought by myself along with two additional identical cars from motopoint they had less than 10k on them at the time. I sourced them for the sales reps at the company that I was the GM for at the time. The reps were spread out the UK so they took cars to local approved garages for their servicing. I have all the receipt's... Not in front of me right now.... Ultimately what difference does it make? The timing belt was taken out by the fan belt snapping and wrapping around it.... I have no recourse with the garage. I get you guys want the full picture and thought I gave a good overview at the start of this thread. That company I was the GM at decided to cease trading so I bought the car off the CEO. I usually run newer cars but I started my own business to decided to just run the Skoda for my commute until the company is up and running, its still early days for the business. Thankfully I have an Abarth 595 comp, aka ****box which was bought for ****s and giggles a good while back, thats being used at the moment. Hopefully that provides better insight. I feel a little like I'm being quizzed so that someone can say you had it coming or I failed to look after the car, both are not true. All three of those cars had servicing done in accordance to Skoda or the VAG group. The belt has gone end of, I need to work out what to do in the most cost effective manner as I have a new business that I'm growing. I'm also near 50, have driven for longer than I haven't. I was working on cars from the age of 12 with my dad, timing engines, changing exhausts, rebuilding brakes alone too. I'm also a petrol head have two supersport bikes a new'ish R1 and a ZX-10r. I'm here for advice not schooling lol I do appreciate the sensible helpful advice guys 👍

fan belt same thing right? The charging system

when the car went into the garage in Milton Keynes they changed whatever was due to be changed. up until about 5k ago it was a company car with no expense spared on servicing. I have receipts somewhere from that Garage.

I believe 149,000

Lot's of the Ford Sierra's had a non interferance engine? MY old Capri B reg back in the day was a non interfereance engine if I remember rightly.... I guess it depends on the engine fitted, defo the 2.0 ltr Pinto was a non interferance so you'd get away with a timing belt snap on them.

Quite possibly, I did smell rubber as it started running rough but I literally had 5 secs to react

I agree - but thats not something I have any recourse with sadly so no pint in pointing the finger at poor servicing by the garage that generally did the service work. The car was with a sales rep in Milton Keynes the garage servied it regular and charged handsomley for it but that was in the past. There is no recourse there.

Yeah next port of call is to either sell the car as a spares and repairs or to get it in to a speciliat to have it checked over.... I thought that the injectors would be under the intake manifold and quite some work to get out to stick a camera inside. If I had a compression test done, I'm guessing you would have had to have had the camera in there first to establish if the valve caps have snapped off etc... as turning it over to test comperssion with snapped valve caps would only make things a million times worse. I recon orused head is possibly the best way to go, but I need to take the plunge and find a decent garage that can collect the car to do those tests trouble is it would likley cost at least £150 just to get it towed to a garage in the first instance.... Everything you do is money sadly. I know I could likley take the head off myself but the weather is a little too cold to be stuck outside doing that at the moment. yeah must be I'll need to check

Thanks, it's what I figured to be the case, what a nightmare..... Had I been neglectful to the service interval I#d say I had it coming but it's pur and simple bad luck.... Not sure why there isn't something placed on the enging to prevent the fan belt being dragged into the path of the main timing belt.

The belt was changed within the service schedule, it has been looked after there is no ignorance or complacency here. As I said the fan belt snapped and wrapped around the tiiming belt.

Thanks Gaz - I think I might just risk it for the cost of a belt and get it fitted and chance my arm - My luck has been crap of late so it'll probably be toast lol But you have to do something eh lol

It's been servierd regular, it's done 180k but as I say it was mainly motorway mileage - Had the fan belt not sanpped and fowled the main timing belt it wouldn't have happened. The car pulled like a train, the DPF was in good health, the EGR had been replaced and the oil pump etc... IT wasn't puffing smoke or sounding tired.

Yeah that was my thoughts but to get to the injectors to remove them and stick a camera in there is going to cost quite a bit as getting to the point you can use a camera will already see a healthy bill in labour.

It's done 180K but it's mainly motorway mileage it's not had a hard life.

Wonderfully (NOT) the timing belt snapped on my 2016 Octavia 2.0 tdi 150bhp 🤯 Fairly sure its an interference engine so likely to have done lots of damage 😞 The belt had been changed within the service interval it wasn't overdue. What actually caused it to fail was the fan belt snapping, the alternator light came on and then within minutes the belt wrapped around the timing belt! It actually happened and stalled just after I pulled up outside work so it didn't audibly go bang it gently stalled. The engine was at idle when it happened, it ran rough for about 5 seconds and just stopped running. Am I being very optimistic that I could have possibly got away with little to no internal damage or is it 99% dead cert that the head will be toast? And possibly pistons? It's a high mileage car but as I said the belt was changed its the fan belt that tangled which caused it to fail. Time to scrap the Skoda or do I fix it?

Have you tried manually adjusting the back light intensitiy from the infotainment screen whilst the engine is running? Mine was very dim and same as you when you take the key out etc.. it became bright. Under the 'light' or 'lights' option within 'car' not sure if its there to adjust unless the engine is running. Very strange that a factory reset didn't solve it though.

I have noticed that the amount of times that it trips into limp mode is far far less after the oil is upto temperature........ Wondering if that could potentially be a valuable clue in detecting what the issue is.

I used a relatively inexpensive OBD tool just today and it doesn't detect any codes even if I use the reader as I drive and the Coil light starts flashing and the car is in limp mode. I figured it may be a body control issue as opposed to the engine. Its been read properly and as I mentioned a VAG trained person has plugged it in to their software and drew a blank...

Hi All, I really need some help from anyone prepared to share any solid advice....... I have an Octavia 2.0 ltr SE Deisel which for some time has thrown up a flashing coil symbol on the dash randomly when driving. It's not there all the time, it will randomly trigger when driving occasionally sometimes when the turbo is boosting or when the engine is under load but sometimes does not happen at all even under harsh acceleration. When it does trigger It puts the car into some kind of limp mode almost as though it has stopped the turbo from working until the ignition is turned off and back on. When you turn off and on the fault light goes away and the car continues to really drive well. I have noticed that the fault code happens less when the oil has got upto temperature. The car has high mileage around 177k, however it has been serviced regular.....it's an ex company car and most the miles on motorways. It's always had regular oil changes its had a new battery, new clutch and dual mass flywheel, and more recently in the quest to solve the problem under the advice of a local garage had a new oil pump, new EGR valve, oil pressure sensors and yet the problem still exists. (Those jobs were done under advice from a local indipendant garage who I and the company have used for years, they didn;t charge me for the new EGR, oil pressure sensors or labour as they drew a blank on fixing it) The OBD fault code I'll add later on this evening however if memory serves me correctly it pointed in the direction of oil pressure. The engine sounds a sweet as a nut and pulls very well 98% of the time, it's as though there is some sort of failing sensor somwhere causing the ECU to trigger limp mode. There is not smoke coming out the rear, the DPF is clear too. The car is not worth a great deal anymore especially with the high mileage so I'm at a crossroads.... sell it on cheap and let someone else sort it if at all. Although ideally I'd like to find the problem and sort it out depending on the outlay for parts. The car is too good to scrap and likley that the issue is something silly......... The garage that had the car also had a friend of theirs who is VAG trained look at it along with plugging it into some VAG dealer software and they could not find the issue. In the end it was suggested that there was some internal engine fault or that potentially the ECU was faulty. Both are expensive gambles to roll with on a whim or guess.