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Check the actuator, that's moving fine when someone is working the throttle. Can the fins in the turbo themselves jam but still allow the linkage to move? Only sound I noticed is when someone comes of the throttle, theirs a popping/thump sound and a possible whine from that area of the engine. Cheers,

Good morning, thanks for the replies - so first glance appears the actuator was stuck, took some force to move initially and though now free to move I only got a few hundred meters down the road before the P0299 error appeared and back to limp mode - If I clear the error whilst driving, the car actually runs rough, smokey, slower than in limp home mode if its under any pull on a hill. So perhaps it is the turbo. Waiting on someone to work the throttle pedal and I'll see if the actuator moves and I'll try putting some silicon spray on it. Thanks, will check intercooler etc for oil. Cheers,

Good afternoon, bit of a long shot. So my father-in-law drove down over Christmas with his DSG 2.0TDI? Octavia, about 2000kms. After arriving the car started to exhibit intermittent drive problems, and sound from the engine bay or somewhere. He took it to the local garage and they said probably the dry clutch is wearing out, use it until it fails. Same time oil around the injectors which was said to be a know problem with the rocker cover splitting. Took it to a mechanic to change the rocker cover as already had the part, they then found two injectors didn't want to come out easily and decided it was not worth continuing (not enough time given the car needed to head back), re-assembled the car and left it for us to pick-up later that evening. Driving it home the DPF symbol came on and the car has dropped into limp home mode. Father-in-law took it to another garage, in the meantime he left leaving us the Skoda, they had it for nearly two weeks and eventually after we phoned they took a quick look and said they needed to replace the DPF and turbo. I suspect they just plugged in the OSB2 and read out the error code and chose the most expensive parts to change. Error on the dash board has remained on since - and it does say DPF blocked when starting but im not sure if that's just a universal message. I don't believe either part has just happened to fail - more related with the injector removal attempt or its such a coincidence. Car previously lived on motorways so it should have regen'ed. Any suggestions? I found this thread regarding the turbo - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/243533-the-mr-muscle-vnt-turbo-treatment-thought-we-needed-a-guide-of-sorts/ I've checked the obvious pipes for splits, not noticed anything. Had a spare turbo pressure sensor from a T5 transporter which I plugged in on the off chance. Could it be the DPF pressure sensor itself? though no specific error code. My OSB2 scanner is for a VW transporter, but it does work. P0299, and one faulty glow plug on cyclinder 3 which has been borked for sometime. We've been left the car, so wanted to try and figure it out. Cheers, James