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290.000 new flywheel. new ball joint. forgot to mention the driver seat has also been repaired. Heat and fabric.

Tomorrow my 1.8tsi first registered may 2009 will have to go to the workshop....again. It has 290.000km. Car history: - Radiator fans not working - change of main cluster instrument do to strange noise - oil level sensor changed - front seat repaired All this was fixed on warranty in the first month of ownership App 60.000. On holiday the car was not responding well to accellerator input. It was picked up by a tow truck and brought to a workshop. Only work they did was to factory reset something with a computer. Clutch change at app. 110.000km. . Had complained for app 50.000 that something was wrong. Now they accepted it was slipping but said outside warranty. Paid app. 50% of the bill. At app. 130.000 and less than 3 years old cam chain tensioner broke. Workshop told me the car needed new engine. Zero warranty or backup !! Took the car to another dealer that repaired the engine with new cam chain kit and new cams etc. = big expensive repair. At app. 145.000 DSG7 broken. Zero warranty or backup. Initially I was told the mechatronic needed changing but they found metal parts in the oil so had to get the complete gearbox exchanged with an exchange unit. = big expensive repair. After this I had to change first one then later the other real wheel bearing. Not because of bearing failure but because the magnets that are put on like a piece of scotch tape was not sticking any more. Twin door problems. Broken wires found an soldered. At 270.000 the intake manifold was changed. Constant problems with heel and tow wear on rear tyres. Now at 290.000 the DSG7 has a bad grinding noise in all high gears. Tomorrow a gearbox from a scrapped car with app. 15.000km will be installed. I want to sell the car. I have been happy with the space and the function of the car but the mechanical problems and the lack of support from the dealership and the Skoda import has been very disappointing. I'm considering an E-class 220. Hopefully a MB will either be better or they will have better support.

I have had big problems with "heal and toe" wear on the rear tyres of my 1.8TSI I have heard that this is a problem affecting many new cars - since cars in general are getting heavier. This problem should go away with 4x4

Feel unlucky with my superb 2 1.8tsi dsg elegance Warranty repairs: Fan Oil level sensor Fog lights Replaced instrument cluster because of rattling. Seat repaired. My charge: App. 120.000 km Clutch replaced. Had complained even in the warranty period but at the end had to split the bill. App 125.000 km Broken timing chain tensioning unit. Local dealer said the engine was dead for me to pay. At the end found another dealer that put new chain kit, tensioning unit, camshaft etc. in. App 166.000 km Dsg gear box would not change gear. First diagnose was the megatronic Unit. They then found metal scrap inside the gearbox. Had to purchase a refurbished gearbox. Nice car. All my problems has been with vw supplied parts. Engine, clutch, gearbox..... Bad dealer support.

I'm the owner of a 1.8 tsi that is a bit more than 3 years and has done 140.000km. Initially I had problems with the radiator fans that was not running. Was changed on warranty. Had several problems with the min. oil level. First a software upgrade then a change of the sensor on warranty. Then followed problems with the driver seat that had a cracking sound, like somthing was mispositioned in the back rest. This was sort of repaired on warranty, but is has never been like the passenger seat. Had then the fog lights replaced because of water droplets inside. After app. 75.000 km the clutch started to slip in 4th and 6th gear (it is DSG 7 speed). I repeatedly told the dealer, but when the car was there it had no faults. The slipping would come and go. After driving on the german autobahn it would be bad. But after a trip to Sweden with calm driving the problem would be gone. After 120.000 the slipping was so bad it was noticed also by the dealer. He said the car was now out of warranty and we needed to split the bill for the new clutch. I paid 1100€ for the new clutch. After this repair the slipping has gone. I ran the car for a couple of weeks but the on a trip to Sweden it started to run bad in idle. I had it in at a local garage that found 4 faults logged on the engine. The faults was of the sensor type faults, so I thought it was a simple matter. I drove the car home to my Danish dealer and left it at his place. Then he called my a few days later telling me that the timing chain tensioner had failed and the car needed a new engine. There would be no help from the dealer or Skoda and I would need to pay more than 9000€ for the new engine. I asked for some help but they told me that because they helped me with the clutch there was no more support from the local dealer or the Skoda importer. I then told them I would pich up the car. I had it transported to Germany where a skilled garage was able to repair the engine with two new cam shafts and a new timing chain kit. total 2900,-€ Now the car has a bit of a strange sound that I fear comes from the DSG. With the luck I'm having the car will propably need a new DSG box soon........ I really like the car but has never had similar problems with a car. The parts that has failed has all been VW related parts. I assume the same problems could be with a Passat. The support from the dealer and Skoda Denmark has been plain rude....

Thank you very much for your help Moggy Tech. The last link was for a complete kit with actuators. The car already has central locking - just need the remote part. I do not want to install an alarm - not impressed with all the bipping flashing cars with false alarms. I'm also not so interested to install a cheap chinease remote locking kit. I prefer to find the correct convenience unit perhaps as a used part and what exect parts in needed. Hope there is a tech on this forum that can help me with the correct code for the unit............

I have now purchased 6y0959753E I hope I can use it for the central locking on the Fabia Classic 6Y What do I need more? New convenience unit? Will that do the job. Is the remote wireless receiver housed inside the convenience unit? What code will fit the above transmitter? Hope someone can help me.

Hi All We have a Fabia 2006 6y model - 3 cyl classic. It is with central locking but without remote control. The Wife wishes a remote control for birthday. How much do I need to do this. Found 6Y0959753E - will that be enough or do I need a receiver also. Is there any no original manufacturer kit available that is working ok? Found a lot on Ebay but do not know what the quality is like and how big a hassle it is to install.

I have Continental winter tyres on my superb 1.8 It is the best car I have ever had in the winter. I always run on winter tyres on black steel rims. They are stored at the local workshop. In November I call them and go to the workshop. In more or less the same time as a F1 pit stop they lift up the car, change the wheels and let me back out. As a part of the service they wash the rims and store them. In March or April I go back in a change to the summer tyres on the aluminium rims. Salt and winter is not very good for the aluminium rims. I do not have 4x4. 4x4 will help, but only for accelerating. On braking 4x4 will help you nothing. Many tend to forget that. With a 4x4 in these conditions it is a risk that the slippery road is not detected so well at accelerating, but first at braking. As long as you drive enough to have the tires wear out and not need change because of age it is not a lot of extra money to have to set of tyres on rims for a car. Only downside is a slightly higher fuel consumption on the winter tyres. Exactly like the summer tyres you can get cheap lousy tyres and good more expensive tyres. I put good (expensive) winter and summer tyres on my car. It is a Skoda not a Lada ;-) PS live in DK.

The other day I collected the car from service in the morning. After a couple of trips during the day I was on my way home. The display said app. 35 km remaing gas. The fuel needle was almost at the bottom, but not all the way down. I belived there was some left and that I have previously run the car with the above displaying. Suddently during acceleration the engine started to loose power. After a while it quit!I managed to let it run into a parking area. After a few minutes I restarted it. I then carefully ran it to the next gas station 5 km away with now further problems. I was alomost sure that it was running on vapours. Very strange I only managed to squize 54 ltrs on it. I believe the car has capacity for more than 60 ltr. The 54 ltr was consistent with the fuel needle, but not at all with the engine quitting. Can it be that the fuel can run to the back of the tank on acceleration or something like that?

The new 7-speed DSG box on the 1.8 is another box than the previous 6 speed. It has another clutch system running with dry clutch as opposed to wet clutch in the old meaning higher efficiency. Volkswagen has developed an evolution of its pioneering DSG gearbox. The new seven-speed system – a world first and codenamed DQ200 – uses a pair of dry clutches in preference to the six-speed version's twin wet clutches. This increases efficiency and performance over the wet clutch six-speed system. The six-speed DSG gearbox, which was introduced in 2003, uses a pair of clutches submerged in oil. The new seven-speed gearbox adopts a pair of dry, organic bonded friction linings that do not require cooling, making the drivetrain more efficient through the extra ratio and the fact that less power is required for the gear selection and clutch servo system. For the first time the DSG gearbox has been mounted transversely. Measuring only 369 mm in length and weighing only 79 kg including the dual-mass flywheel the gearbox is remarkably compact. These modest proportions mean it can be applied to models from the Polo right up to the Passat and, in its current form, it is capable of coping with power outputs of up to 170 PS and 184 lbs ft of torque. In adopting seven-speeds, Volkswagen engineers were able to lower first gear to improve acceleration from a standstill. By contrast seventh gear has been raised to act as an overdrive function making it ideal for motorway driving with the additional effect of raising economy and comfort levels. The volume of oil contained within the gearbox has also been reduced by 75 per cent. The oil circuits are split into two in an effort to protect the lubrication's purity. As with a conventional manual gearbox, one of the circuits is used for cooling and lubrication of the gear teeth, the second feeds oil to the gear actuators. Since the clutch does not require cooling the quantity of oil was reduced from seven litres in the six-speed DSG gearbox to only 1.7-litres in the new seven-speed system. Production of the gearbox is set to start at the end of the year with its first application in the UK being planned for the Golf and mated to the 1.4-litre TSI petrol and 1.9-litre TDI diesel engines.