There has been 1 or 2 topics with very similar themes but I wanted to run this by some of you who have possibly had more experience with dealing with skoda so I'm armed with a bit of knowledge.

Its 18 months old with 20000 miles on clock and been running great since I bought it from skoda 6 weeks ago. Last night on way home from work (with no warning lights on before or hint of what was about to happen) engine suddenly lost power and car started to judder along, lots of smoke from the exhaust every time I revved which had strong smell of fuel and the engine and epc lights came on. Called the AA out and the guy just said it wasn't going anywhere and it was to be towed back to a garage. It really struggled to start again

It has spent today with the skoda dealer in warrington and having had it all day they have come up with

- cylinder misfire

- different weights of fuel detected in engine??

The guy I spoke to basically said "you have put diesel in it haven't you, not that you are going to admit it though"

It has had nothing but shell v-power petrol in since I have owned it and I am a bit concerned they are going to try to wrangle their way out of fixing it. The car hasn't been modded in anyway.

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated

Dan

I had the TSI VRS combo, great car, after 7K miles, I was driving along a nice dual carriageway, and all of sudeen it started juddering like mad, EPC light came one, and I managed to ease it to a local service area about a mile further on, getting towards the service area it started smoking like a steam train and was really embarassing!! Pulled in turned it off, tried to restart, didnt want to know, Skoda Assist came out which was the local RAC man, he played around with it for a little while thought it might be a coil pack or something, so he swapped one and nothing, performed some other tests and diagnostics on etc and it basically come up something to do with an incorrect fuel mixture on one of the cylinders or something, so got towed to my dealer.

Collected the car a week later and they had replaced whatever was needed etc, and it ran fine, traded the car a few weeks later as I had a diesel on order, and they took it in on PX put it on teh forecourt it sat there for a few weeks, then one day then went to move it, it started up, again smoke everywhere, rattled like a good un and went pop or something, so was then abandoned in the yard for several weeks! After that I have no idea what happened with it.

http://www.murray-group.co.uk/skoda/used-cars/845/skoda-octavia

This is the car, I traded it in June this year!!

It seems that the TSI VRS engine obviously has some sort of problem, not sure whether its across similar engines across the VAG group or not? I know many people only come on forums when there is an issue and I am sure there are loads of other TSI VRS owners out that are probably very happy, but it just seems like its a common problem maybe??

Can have problems with injectors overfuelling.

Cheers James, I hope my solution is not to have to get rid of it, as really genuinely like the car but I would worry about the problem failing again or even worse in future when its not under warranty. Does sound like there is a slight common thread with the problem though.

Sherlock, is the problem with injectors fixed by replacing just the one injector or the whole set?

Cheers James, I hope my solution is not to have to get rid of it, as really genuinely like the car but I would worry about the problem failing again or even worse in future when its not under warranty. Does sound like there is a slight common thread with the problem though.

Sherlock, is the problem with injectors fixed by replacing just the one injector or the whole set?

Normaly its only the faulty injectors which are replaced, especially if its warranty.

Cheers James, I hope my solution is not to have to get rid of it, as really genuinely like the car but I would worry about the problem failing again or even worse in future when its not under warranty. Does sound like there is a slight common thread with the problem though.

Sherlock, is the problem with injectors fixed by replacing just the one injector or the whole set?

I was changing mine anyway, was swapping over to the same spec car just diesel, only coz whilst I loved the TSI was fast, smooth etc it was just far too thirsty for me at the pump, that was all, it was just frustrating how this happened in my final few weeks of ownership of it.

@sherlocksVRS if this is something that gets done under warranty is it likely to happen outside of the warranty?

Ok. Update on this and maybe some advice needed if possible. Car been at skoda now for 10 days. Spoke to guy in services several times and yesterday he said dont worry we will fix it but we can't get it going and we are all scratching our heads as to what is wrong with it!? I am quite worried I have bought a bit of a dud here, if its got skoda mechanics in a skoda garage stumped. I don't want something that's patched up only to go terribly wrong again when it is not under warranty. I originally bought it from skoda in Oxford but it's currently being looked at in my local dealer. Any thoughts on what I should be doing other than waiting for a call, as I've never been in this position before with a car for this long (and I've owned renaults and fiats)

From my recent experience of Skoda mechs.... It dosnt seem to take much to stump them!

It took us to go in and diagnose the fault ourselves!

Completely different problem mind you.... Hope it all gets sorted out!

Hi Dan, what was the resolution for this? I had similar issue about a month ago, 47k and just out of warranty but engine management light came on, EPC then shut down to a load of smoke.

 

All codes pointed at Injector 3 which the dealer changed but since then I have been experiencing a juddler on idle. Is currently in its 2nd Skoda dealer trying to work out cause, luckily I have customer care assisting.

 

Thanks
Andy

My issue sorted, dealer fitted the wrong injector for my car - fitted the 1.8 part not the 2.0

 

12 weeks of hassle, internet research, independent dealers and it took me to insist they checked the part was correct before they accepted anything was wrong