Hi everyone

I was driving on the motorway in middle Germany when my 2007 2.0 Tdi Vrs octavia showed the coil light flashing few times and the car stalled and went dead! I couldn't started and the road side diagnosed it with a faulty injector, which was the same a Skoda dealer nearby said. They told it costs 800 euro to be replaced!! I had the car towed to Slovakia, my destination, and I was told there the same thing but for 700 euros!!

1) Has anybody had this problem before, was it really the injector, or they are just trying to squeeze some money out of me? could it be anything else?

2) The breakdown was on 01/10/10 and the car registered 03/10/10 so the car was under the 3rd year warranty of the UK, gut the mileage when I left the UK was 59600 or so, and in Germany was 60500 or so... am not sure if that would mean it is still under warranty in the UK especially that they stipulate there the car doesn't exceed 60000 to be covered in the 3rd year!!

Please help and advice on this.... the UK Skoda they would re-impurse me the money paid to any Skoda dealer in Eruope provided my car is under a valid 3rd year warranty.... and am not sure if I should tell them the current milage which just exceeded the limit allowed!!!

HELP HELP HELP I can't afford this bill at the moment as to make things worse , I entered the hospital in Slovakia for 8 days with Pancreas inflammation!! it never rains but it pours.

Edited 16 November, 201015 yr by ocavia-victim

VWG have issues with Piezo injectors on later PD engines.

Injectors short causing supply circuit A problem causing the ECU to shut down.

If it's got full history inside the network, VW and Audi are honoring upto 100,000 miles as known concern.

If you do need to pay for the parts, put an X on the end of the part number as VWG are now doing exchange injectors at half the price of new units.

1 hour labour from a specialist and back on the road for around £300.

Fight with Skoda Customer Services

Hope this helps

That's what mine did although my dealer diagnosed a duff ECU and relieved me (well the lease company) of £1000!

I wonder when the injector will go again as it that is the true fault, it's just waiting to re-occur!

Steve

VWG have issues with Piezo injectors on later PD engines.

Injectors short causing supply circuit A problem causing the ECU to shut down.

If it's got full history inside the network, VW and Audi are honoring upto 100,000 miles as known concern.

If you do need to pay for the parts, put an X on the end of the part number as VWG are now doing exchange injectors at half the price of new units.

1 hour labour from a specialist and back on the road for around £300.

Fight with Skoda Customer Services

Hope this helps

Many thanks for your reply, mate! Really much appreciated! I miss-typed my car's registration date (am still in hospital! hence my user name: octavia-victim), the correct date is 03/10/2007, and my car broke down on 02/10/10 in Germany (ironic!!), but the mileage was 59, 500 before leaving the UK, and became 60600 at the time of the incident!

I had just bought the car before my journey but it has full Skoda-UK history. If what you are telling me about 100,000 miles is right, then you really have shown me the light in this tunnel!! I was thinking of bribing the local skoda dealer in Slovakia to put the mileage down as 60000 only

Am not sure am getting your point right about the old injector, I believe the dealer in Slovakia will take it to give some little discount on the price of the new one. Are you saying I should keep the old one to have it exchanged for money value on my return to the UK? what do you mean to mark it X? the dealer told me here they would order the part from Skoda factory in the Czech Republic (they didn't mention VWG).... i don't know if that is another lie of them.

Please advise me further on the above if you don't mind. I am hoping to be out of hospital tomorrow or friday at the most, to attend to this disaster of mine!

Regards,

AJ

That's what mine did although my dealer diagnosed a duff ECU and relieved me (well the lease company) of £1000!

I wonder when the injector will go again as it that is the true fault, it's just waiting to re-occur!

Steve

I bought my car a week before the journey, broke down a day before the last day of the 3-year warranty, but 600 miles above the 60000 miles......!! I was so upset I ended up in hospital with acute pancreatitis.

So if this is a ticking bomb, then don't wait for it to go in your face mate!

I hope your luck is better than mine!

AJ