£90p/h You sure you didn't walk into an Audi dealer by mistake.??

Pulman Volkswagen, they are a franchised Skoda service agent - but with VW labour rates!

Wow, was paying £75 at dealers but they didn't deserve it so payed an indy £65 but they didn't deserve it either so now I pay a local mechanic £30 but am not sure that will stretch to injector replacements...

Yep, that's pretty much what the previous 769 posts alluded to too

Glad you got it sorted, it's just a shame you hadn't seen this thread earlier and avoided a breakdown on the motorway.

I wonder how many other PD170 owners are out there that haven't been in for their FOC injectors...

Skoda seem to be pretty on the ball with informing people, I'm not the first owner of my Octavia but I got a letter from them not long after the recall was official telling me to bring the car in for a look and just received another one a couple of weeks ago reminding me I need to take the car in. I read this forum at the time a while back and was concerned that people were having unexpected problems after having the work done and Skoda didn't seem to be able to resolve it so I was visiting again to see there's any progress and from what I can see there isn't really.

Aside from the usual sensor problems the engine and various bits seems to be fine so I'm still not sure what to do, I have decent RAC cover so if the worst came to the worst and it did fail then I should be covered ok for getting towed but then I don't know if there is a limit to when Skoda will fit the injectors and if there's any risk from waiting for the injector to fail.

John

Take it in and get them done.

Ask the dealer to put a technician on the job who has done a few injector changes before as "you've heard of a few horror stories".

Skoda seem to be pretty on the ball with informing people, I'm not the first owner of my Octavia but I got a letter from them not long after the recall was official telling me to bring the car in for a look and just received another one a couple of weeks ago reminding me I need to take the car in. I read this forum at the time a while back and was concerned that people were having unexpected problems after having the work done and Skoda didn't seem to be able to resolve it so I was visiting again to see there's any progress and from what I can see there isn't really.

Aside from the usual sensor problems the engine and various bits seems to be fine so I'm still not sure what to do, I have decent RAC cover so if the worst came to the worst and it did fail then I should be covered ok for getting towed but then I don't know if there is a limit to when Skoda will fit the injectors and if there's any risk from waiting for the injector to fail.

John

I am pretty much in the same boat as you John with this dilemma..should I take it in (its running fine ) and risk a **** up ..or wait until it becomes a problem...not sure about time limits on VOSA recalls either.....anyone have any idea..

Is this still an issue on even new models? Have a 12 plate, sorry not read all of the previous 780 posts :p

No, only the older PD170 engines, the later vRS's (2009>) are common rail (CR170) so not affected.

No, only the older PD170 engines, the later vRS's (2009>) are common rail (CR170) so not affected.

Thank you very much

Take it in and get them done.

Ask the dealer to put a technician on the job who has done a few injector changes before as "you've heard of a few horror stories".

I'm surprised you'd still recommend that given the amount of grief your car has given you, I was thinking of posting a separate topic and asking people to post where they had the injectors done and whether they had any issues to see if there's any consensus on better or worse garages.

John

Fair point, although it is important to state that the faults I had with my car weren't the fault of the components or the car itself.

It was purely shoddy workmanship.

If I was armed with the knowledge I have now I wouldn't be putting anywhere near as much faith in the dealer as I did.

The injector change (if done correctly) is a must to avoid a potentially dangerous and unexpected breakdown, and to reduce the liklihood of a costly bill in the future.