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Surely there must be a privacy issue with a dealer looking at a business card in YOUR car?

Hi RSmike, I had had a problem with the chap in this same service department last year when I had a problem with the 2nd gear changes of my dsg gearbox in my previous Octavia, a 2010 1.8tsi L&K. The delays and poor communication made me escalate that to Skoda too, who on that occasion were helpful in finally getting the gearbox fixed. I think the service dept man remembered me, found the card, was curious, looked on the internet and found a way of causing me problems by sending the pics to Skoda. I asked Skoda about him looking at items in my car and they weren't interested at all!

Hi Rob_e, thanks for the link, that is interesting. I will see what the actual dealer quote is and then look at whether there are other, cheaper options.

However this pans out this will be my fourth, and last, Skoda. The dealer has had my car for nearly three months and for 90% of that my car's just been sitting there. Terrible communications, lied about when they would be working on it, excuse after excuse for doing nothing. And I think Skoda might at the very least have offered some sort of contribution rather than a straight dismissal and taken action to make the dealer work on the car sooner than they did.

Once I have my car back I will reveal the dealer's identity.

Nothing wrong with giving your Octavia vRS a run on the track and if something like this happens then its not all its cracked up to be and I for one wouldnt buy another...

sorry mate and really feel for you,but the top and bottom is rules are rules and skoda say no motorsport activity,skoda uk now have the proof that your car has been involved in motorsport activity and hence why your warrenty is void,sorry mate but cannot see were you going to go with this one but if i was you try and con them into a good will jesture like paying 50%

Standing starts kill cars - be it Porsches, Ferrari's or skodas.... Not even race cars like standing starts - god knows why you'd want to try to kill your road car in that fashion.

Remapped or not full bore strain kills cars.

However.... It would appear that the early tensioners are suspect. I very much doubt standing starts helped but I really don't think the cause is entirely due to dragging it.

Before it gets scare mongering level of tensioner failure all I'd add that there are a few examples out of several thousand units.

Time to ditch the 'time bomb' - not quite - look at what you can change it for... Mini / BMW all have tensioner failures.

I'd suggest perhaps getting an official response from vag regarding the known tensioner issue. Perhaps worth changing the tensioner as routine prior to the warranty running out? That's what I will be doing

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of Santa Pod - if two valves had hit a cylinder how come the engine ran fine at higher revs than idle?

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of Santa Pod - if two valves had hit a cylinder how come the engine ran fine at higher revs than idle?

I had a Peugeot 405 that started to run lumpy on idle, but drove OK at higher revs. Compression check showed one cylinder was low. Cylinder head off and there was small piece of the exhaust valve head missing so the valve didn't seal anymore.

It is also likely that you have invalidated the T's & C's of your motor insurance. This may be raised to show that Skoda aren't the only company that has such an exclusion and that you have a reckless disregard for such exclusions.

You have proof of the existance of a motor policy which states "This policy shall be voided by the use of the vehicle for motorsport" rather than:-

"Exclusions

n) Use of the vehicle for motorsport."

What the second wording means is that you're not covered by the policy whilst competing (including RWYB, autotesting), but you are covered for non-competitive activity, including driving to and from the event.

1) should have bought a mk 1

2) shouldnt leave the photography card next to the handbrake

Really unlucky dude, hope you get it sorted

You would hope so after 24 months.

You would hope so after 24 months.

I dunno, maybe SKODA sub contracted it to me hence its taking so long

I dunno, maybe SKODA sub contracted it to me hence its taking so long

Nah. Youd of started a thread about what you havent done

Haha