Welsh Boyo

Got mine done today, cost£1079. Car just over 5 years old so was told it was needed despite having a low mileage (36,000). The job seems to have required a lot of parts and apparently a specialist tool for the 1.6 TSI Petrol engine (the tool costs around £1000 itself). Was told 6 hours work but recording dashcam showed nearer 4 hours in the workshop. The old belt showed very little sign of wear but better safe than sorry I guess and wanted to keep the 2 year all in service plan warranty intact!

I have an Octavia Mk 3 saloon (2018). In a recent cold snap one of my headlamp washer covers also broke off. I imagine this was due to insufficient screen wash antifreeze causing an ice build up behind the cover when the jets were activated. Ice casuses expansion - that is well known. In my case though the two "lugs" on the end of the washer jet also broke off with the cover 😒 I didn't want a long repair involving the removal of the front bumper and replacement of the entire jet as it is bad enough having to spray a new cover with the correct paint so I experimented with removing the end of the jet by first first griping the assembly on the car with a mole wrench to stop it retracting into the bumper and then placing two thin blades (I used artists pallet knives) in between the clips and the serated part of jet assembly as shown on one side in the photo. That allowed the end section of the jet to be removed by carefully pulling it off. I further discovered that the jet assembly parts for the Octavia 3 (Part Numbers 5E0955966 Right and E0955965 Left) used the same end pieces as the more easily available and cheaper VW Golf Mk Vll 2013-17 (Part numbers 5G0955966 Right and 5G0955965 Left). It would also seem that those end pieces are not "handed" so are interchangeable. Replacing the end piece of the jet is a breeze as it just pushes on to provide an interference fit with the teeth on the main assembly. Hope this might help someone with the same issue PS the part numbers for the washer covers are 5E0955109E GRU - left side and 5E0955110E GRU - right side (driver side of RHD car). Best to get the primed ones if you can,