The bulk of new model A3's we've sold have been 2.0TDi and so far - NO engine problems. In fact we have 2 that have done excess of 40,000 miles already and no worries.

FSi now theres a different story -- we've had plenty of faults with those - including having to de-coke(remember doing that 20years ago??) one at only 38,000 miles!!

Maybe that's why the so-called FSi engines are no longer FSi-the only true FSi engine has been dropped by Audi.The FSi TURBO and 3.2 FSi engines merely use "FSi Technology" whatever that means.....

Maybe that's why the so-called FSi engines are no longer FSi-the only true FSi engine has been dropped by Audi.The FSi TURBO and 3.2 FSi engines merely use "FSi Technology" whatever that means.....

Very true, they are concentrating on direct injection petrol rather than full stratisfied injection. Mitsi GDi engine suffered same coking up.

I do hope nobody is going to 'dis' the mighty VAG name with this thread.

No Mr De-Niro, I hope not, its almost as bad as casting aspirations on peoples intelligence because they realise cheap doesn't always mean good

I've not heard of this problem as of yet, the new 2.0 TDi has been a fairly solid unit since its introduction in the new A3. The early 2.0 FSi's were a different story early on, with timing chain seizures being the favourite, but thats all sorted now.

No Mr De-Niro' date=' I hope not, its almost as bad as casting aspirations on peoples intelligence because they realise cheap doesn't always mean good

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People have aspirations...

You cast aspersions.

No Mr De-Niro' date=' I hope not, its almost as bad as casting aspirations on peoples intelligence because they realise cheap doesn't always mean good

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People have aspirations...

You cast aspersions.

Christ! You're a genius! You get to move to the front of the toilet paper line!

Christ! You're a genius! You get to move to the front of the toilet paper line!

:rofl:

:attn: ...and now back to the topic, please.

i havent read all this thread still hungover but we have had 1 A3 2.0 tdi come back with this fault, but we have sold god no's how many. in the end it turned out to be a faulty block. the oil was leaking past a seal and mixing.

anyway deffiantly wont be a recall. i think the situaution is if the engines is going to do it it will do it early in its life. if it dosent then the block is ok and dosent need to be replaced.

The rover 1.8's problem was the fact it didn't hold much water and could overheat quickly blowing the head gasket. It is a cracking engine though in the MG TF 135 and a waste of time in the LR Freelander. The wife used to have a TF and it was mental on the B roads but scarily it didn't even come with ABS! or EBD etc as standard. Rover eh! And they wonder what happened.

Is there a 150bhp TDi in the VW range? Bora's I think.

And Golf GT TDI

And Seat Leon Cupra / FR TDI

And the Ibiza Cupra uses the 150 lump tweaked to 160bhp...

Surprised to hear of the problems with the 2.0TDi engine! Fingers crossed it is just a batch issue!

Hey Monkey Rover 2.0 litre ( moderate driving) 3 head gaskets in 4 years! Good old british quality. Screw skoda jokes

is it only a vw problem because skoda build there own egines in there own factory

I see plenty of 2.0 TDi's out and about, so I hope for VAG's sake it's a batch issue. :eek:

The coking up in the new EUIV engines is due to the fitment of a diesel particulate filter. This helps burn away all the bad stuff in the exhaust before it enters out atmosphere. This is therefore reducing emmisions and making the new engine EUIV. The problem with this the de-coke that is built into this system only works during small intervals during "normal" driving. The de-coke only works during high speed cruising when the revs are failry low and there is minimal throttle. The DPF raises the temperature of the catalyst to "burn off" the bad particals left behind. The engine does this by adding more unburnt fuel into the exhaust and therefore rasing the temperature of the cat to above 600 deg C. If the normal cruising conditions are not met the DPF will "coke up" as some one has put it. The DPF has got a maximum capacity feature in it so it will pour loads of extra fuel into the Cat if it reaches above 70% full. (please do not quote me on this figure) The cat will in this case go well above 600 deg C to try to rid its self of the "coke" if it cannot due this because people are not driving within what VAG stipulate as "normal" then once the DPF reaches 80% full it will bring on the engine emissions warning light and the vehicle has to go into the workshop for a manual de-coke. The technician will then use the 5051b diagnosis machine to carry out the burn manually. Now if this doesn't work then a catalytic convertor replacement is necessary and we all know how expensive these can be.....

Around 8 months ago, my Boss's 2.0 tdi (140bhp) had to be replaced after consistanly using ALL of its oil, till finally the engine failed alltogether whilst on the motorway. VW fitted a new engine straight away and he had it back within 4 days. the engine had only done 1200 miles!:eek:

Not good when 100mph on M62 to hear the sound of your engine failing - I was there!