Really??

Welcome to the forum.

I think a 'recall' will show on the VOSA site, but i am not seeing one.

Members here are still having difficulty getting Skoda Dealers to take reported high oil usage serious and no other reports of a 'Recall'.

george

Sorry to butt in so late but i bought the VRS 2nd owner, very high oil consumption so took it to the dealers to find a recall was issued on this topic for any oil thirsty engines september 2012. Just incase none of you are aware

Do you mean the oil breather mod that plenty on here have had done? Try the search facility on the forum, loads of oil issue threads!

http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/apps/recalls/searches/search.asp

Do you mean the oil breather mod that plenty on here have had done? Try the search facility on the forum, loads of oil issue threads!

Yeah was that. My bad for not checking however i noticed the head gasket has also gone on mine and now they're replacing the bottom engine

Welcome to the forum.

I think a 'recall' will show on the VOSA site, but i am not seeing one.

Members here are still having difficulty getting Skoda Dealers to take reported high oil usage serious and no other reports of a 'Recall'.

george

It will vary on the "consumption" of oil as the hand book does say 1litre/1000km but its still worth a shout. Even the service chap was surprised when he saw the recall on their system

Lukee,

Did you get your Engine replaced then, and was it just a short engine not a complete new one?

& was it the Head Gasket on a vRS. or was that what they said it was?

Is all well now with your car?

Confused.com,

There is no 'Recall' by Skoda regarding High Oil usage or any notification to Twincharger Owners.

If there was to be a recall then best that someone can let others know.

Skoda would be the people to do that.

There is a Breather Modification that plenty here have had done,

(never offered, but needs complaining about oil usage and consumption test carrying out usually before getting.)

then many have had the Replacement engine after this resolved nothing.

george

We are fortunate enough that our Polo GTI TSI doesent have the oil consumption issues.

I am not aware that there is a recall either.

Had mine put in for a second year service last week and it's a CAVE engine.

Haven't had any oil consumption issues really, 1.25l per 12k miles and no recall was mentioned.

No recall for any FABIA on VOSA. They need to know first what the hell is wrong, sort out the repair/replacement and then do the recall. At the moement they either have too many different reasons for a recall or it is cheaper for them not to do it and go through warannties. Another factor is that recall is only issued when there is a risk to user - I do not think high oil usage is that much of a risk to warrant global recall.

LOL,

I just checked my old vRS's oil, this never used any oil during daily or weekly use by me,

and it was just recently serviced and given an Oil and Filter Change by me before i passed it on..

Oil required to bring it up to when i did the oil change, '1 pint',( no metric today.)

The reason being its been only getting short runs and not had any runs up to normal temperature for a couple of weeks.

Got Thrashed just now after taking it up to 86*0C and all is fine

clouds of black smoke on first booting it, and level is perfect now after checking.

george

vRS is a car in need of heavy foot from time to time

That's what I think is hurting mine. I have stop start traffic in and out of Swansea everyday which is unavoidable. On weekends or when I get a free evening I give it a really good kicking but then I'm using even more fuel. The harder I drive I've found the less it uses but this isn't really sustainable.

Well, when I was buying this car another option was monte 1.6 oil chugger. I went for vRS as I always had a sensible, low cost cars and I finaly wanted something more smile inducing than looking at your diesel receipts . So yes, I am getting 270 miles from tank which is crap BUT I can have some serious adrenaline pumping BPM raising fun and so far I am willing to pay for it. Wife is driving 520d 163bhp version and she does 33mpg compared to my normal one of 35mpg... Well, she must be driving like a loon then!

270 from a tanks not bad, I was getting 220 from my subaru and that was a 50 litre tank

Yeah, but your Scoobs had 30% more volume and a few more ponies carrying few more kilos

fabia weight 1265kg - 177bhp - 1.4 twin charged

impreza weight 1395kg - 221bhp - 2.0 turbo

I think they're fairly similar, looking at the figures (proportionately)

LOL, I was thinking more like 400bhp ones

in those goes out quicker than it goes in

My old Evo 6 with 400hp did 28.5mpg on a run from Berks to Norwich , I got the chance to the do the same journey recently and the Fabia did 33mpg

My old Evo 6 with 400hp did 28.5mpg on a run from Berks to Norwich , I got the chance to the do the same journey recently and the Fabia did 33mpg

This is what's annoying me a bit. I never thought it would be economical coming from a Mk1 vRS but it is starting to hurt the wallet now. My brother's SSS regularly does book figures without trying

What's worse is we went up a week later in the Superb , took much less time and the mfd read 53.9mpg

Hi,everyone,thought I'd add my tuppence. Have just bought a 9 month old 2600-mile Fabia VRS 1.4. Suddenly it's started guzzling oil.....called Skoda,they say they'll sort it out...

Check it's history with Skoda UK first. Also make sure you give it plenty of right foot when the engine is hot.

how long will the cat last with all that oil going through it, I wonder