brummie10

Thanks for all the advise spoke to friend who has the same model but with 120k on it, he got the egr done for 400 bargain and had an injector go, he was in leeds, found a large independent who showed him a container of failed ones and a draw of very good third party ones he has bought in bulk at lower cost. like he saw about 80 in stock, he said at least 40% of his business seems to be vag 1.6 tdi, less so 2.0 tdi injector failures, he charged about 250 per injector and did the one that had failed rather than all of them but said see you soon for the other 3. ive had the major parts done so touch wood should be good for another 4-5 years when i will consider a change to petrol. my guy said go ford petrol eco boost, cheap to fix and get good third party parts. But ive also read horror stories on ecoboost engines as well. he said vw petrols at least double the cost to fix vs fords, and less options for third party good parts. he runs and audi himself but said if he was a punter would not touch them. thats all his opinion of course, but hes a good egg. Ill use additives once every few months and swap diesel suppliers every 3rd tank. touch wood should do ok. it was doing 63mpg on a 60mph run yesterday. so thats about 13mpg more than previously, i do buy the other post they were not up to scratch to start with. it really is night and day sound and response, the mechanic was shocked as he been servicing it since i had to 4-5 years ago. brummie 10

yes thanks for that going to add some cleaner exhaust on my next fill just in case and maybe find someone locally who removes and cleans them, don't want that to go down as well.

That hilarious they sell additives but dont advise them !!!.

no it was not a skoda garage, reliable independent, i also have a personal relationship with the extended family, they said after 30 years of servicing and repairing motors, if using supermarket diesel which i do, as bp and shell have more additives they said to redress the balance, long term it would help. This was not a skoda garage, i have not even approached one yet, i needed car back and i dont trust skoda garages after the ea189 fob offs. They said there fed up of having to pick the pieces of vw diesel engine failures. there view was ive had the major bits done which could have been floured from the start and so should be good for another 4 years, when timing belt is up. rac guy picked up the same failure codes at the roadside. regards brummie10

Dear all, not having a good year with my yeti greenline 1.6 tdi this year. My father had it from new in 2012 and then I bought it from him at a discount about 4 years ago. Sadly he passed away last year. He had done about 29000k, over 8 years not alot i know and now its about 61k 4 years down the line. I had the timing belt done about 2 years ago. Ok thats normal and had a few wiring issues repaired as well. I use a very good independent garage in bilston i service yearly regardless of milage which is about 10k a year I have not had the ea189 fix, due to egr warnings etc and I have not been in any of the claims. We do about 2-4 hrs per week of motorway driving on weekends on days out as a family, so helps keep the dpf clean. So in December the egr valve failed about 1k for fix, so I can get that the commuter traffic etc and 2-4 hrs of motorway would have thought would keep it clean. So now 1 week ago 2 of the 4 injectors failed. So car went in, they had real trouble sourcing them but got them. They had to do front discs and resolve an issue with one air bag on the wiring loom. Big bill. Injectors have to be replaced in 4s so new set of valves, 1300 just to the garage, no profit, some other stuff that breaks and stuff when they take them out another 200. They showed me the invoice from the supplier, took 6 to find any. So I had rather a large bill. So now touch wood the major failure parts are new. All computer stuff done tuning and timing etc So I'm driving home and the engine sounds so much better. Like night and day better, before i got this short urban driving I got about 40-42mpg max. I was now getting 67mpg. Called garage they said they were shocked at how good it was sounding. Have they changed the design or do we think which is my suspicion, the injectors were faulty from day 1 out the factory. ive been advised every other tank to add some redex to keep it clean i didn't bother before. Should I kick up a stink and try and get some compensation or am I barking up a pole. Regards Brummie 10