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Cheers mate that's great 👍🏻 but trying to get a decent mechanic who isn't ready to ride you along is near on impossible today.

I didn't even realise there was an outstanding emissions fix. What year / cars were affected please

Cheers mate really appreciate you're help and advice. I'll see how it goes over the next few days Cheers Gary

Cheers mate really appreciate the advice 👍🏻

I think I'll try it but I've all but given up hope with this car at the moment. It feels like a money pit.

Hi update: The car is still smoking only in the lower gears. The mechanics suggests drive it faster or ignore the smoke. Now I've taken delivery of the car with a brand new clutch, the clutch judders on low revs when pulling out of a junction or my drive. I asked the mechanic if there was a problem he said "rev the engine higher it'll go away". Now I know that a brand new clutch shouldn't judder but I'm so stressed out right now. I'm thinking what should I do

Hi I don't think it has it seems pretty standard no messing around with deletes ect

I took mine to 80mph But it started to smoke and vibrate badly

Hi I really wanted the 1.9 but couldn't find a decent one, took it up to 80 mph but its was smoking and vibrating so I backed off Cheers

Hi no loss of power but at around 70 / 80 mph it did start to shake and vibrate, cheers

Yes I'm going back to him next week other than the black smoke it runs really well

Hi yes new air filter fitted

Hi many thanks for getting back to me so quickly, I really appreciate your quick response and help. Where would be the best place to get my injectors checked? The clutch started slipping when I let the first garage look at it. It's been a bit of nightmare if I'm being honest cheers Gary

Hi I've decided to join this group as i was failing to get any help or support from the skoda groups on Facebook. I recently purchased a 2012 Skoda octavia 1.6 tdi, so far I've spent nearly £900 trying to get it back to a drivable state, full service, yesterday a brand new clutch but my main concern is that driving through town and in lower gears, mainly 3rd and 4th when I put my foot down it chucks out an unhealthy amount of black smoke. Now, I've had it in two garages, the first garage had two mechanics take it out and saw no smoke, no fault codes, no lights on the dash. I've just had another garage install a new clutch and I explained the issue to him, he saw what was happening ( so I wasn't going mad ) and said it may well be a faulty injector. But again nothing showing up on his machine no fault codes or anything. Please anybody who can offer me some help with this before I sell it for a huge financial loss. Regards Gary