ive just been back to the stealers with my vrs due to high oil usage (even after the breather mod) and now im booked in for a short engine

i know several on here have had this but was it successful for you? so ive also a few queries surrounding it all for anyone thats been there done that or just knows the answers as the lass on the desk wasnt sure about any of them

1 did it fix high oil usage for you

2 does the car feel just the same to drive and did you have to drive like a new car or just as you have been

3 do i have to inform the dvla

4 did the dsg work as good with the new engine as im led to believe its not a simple thing changing the engine

5 does the milometer get zeroed?

6 did you get offered an ext warranty on any parts fitted

im booked in nearer the end of the month and i just hope its the end of it all, i really want to do some mods but whats the point until i know the engine is reliable enough, last thing i want is to give them an excuse to say the faults due to blah blah blah

It is odd that skoda offer some customers a short engine and others a complete new engine. Mine is a 2011 march model and after the breather fix didn't work it went back and had a complete engine not a short engine. I did query this and my dealer was surprised they changed the complete engine I am lead to believe mine is the CTHE new engine but im not convinced.. After nearly 2000 miles with the new engine i have put in just under 1/2 litre of oil which i expected to be honest. With regards to your questions.

2/ Yes to both

3/ i haven't informed DVLA and as i understand it your not having a new engine.

4/ All works fine

5/ No

6/ No

My car is booked in for a replacement engine after the oil breather fix failed. It will be a refurbished base engine comprising the following parts: -

crankscase, crankshaft, pistons, conrod, cylinder head, cylinder head cover, oil pump, timing case, sealing flange, operating valve, oil cooler, injection valve, oil pressure switch, impluse sender, oil filter and implulse sender

Units such as your turbo and supercharger are re-used. No warranty extension is offered but I'm attempting to negotiate an additional year on the engine through SUK. I would expect to get a new engine number. If after all this I find that oil consumption is no better or the car does not behave as is should, the next step will be to reject the vehicle.

Arnold, it's great your engine fixed the problem. You should be ok now. I know of others who have had engines changed and they too are all sorted. One point...and this will apply to Mad Monk too, I would let the DVLA know about your new engine as you now either have a new engine number, or no engine number at all showing on the engine block. It depends on where the engine comes from. If it's one off the line, and shipped to you then it may not have any engine number at all. Mine didn't. This needs to be addressed on the V5 document to make you legal otherwise you will have trouble ever trying to sell it and you may not be insured. You will need some official letter from your dealer or SUK confirming the engine change before DVLA will execute the change. I can't remember if I had to tell my insurers or not when this happened to me. But until you get the V5 sorted you are not strictly legal. Enjoy the car, they do go don't they!

According to the technicians at SUK your existing engine number gets transferred across to the replacement engine. Therefore no change to the V5 document. This sounds a dodgy practice to me but its what Skoda do. In an earlier post on the forum there was a report of the engine number on a replacement engine being ground off and restamped with the old number.

Going by my experience, (some points have been covered in more detail elsewhere).

1. Hopefully, I have completed 2.5 k miles since the new lump was installed. 400 mls added after about 800 miles and possibly needs a drop more now, will check at the weekend when I have time and daylight to see what I am doing. Certainly no orange warning yet.

2. Yes, treat it like a new engine

3. No - My dealer told me that my original engine number was stamped onto the new engine, which was received from Skoda/VAG un numbered. I do have the invoice for the work so if there are ever any repercussions I have some evidence that it is all above board.

4. No. But this may have been specific to my car. Following the engine replacement the dealer was unable to engage drive, the lever would move but the car would not :( This resulted in a software update to the DSG to sort the problem, so it was essentially reset and had to re learn my driving style (no giggling) all over again.

5. No

6. No. But Skoda UK have agreed to a one year extension, but i am still awaiting written confirmation (from the 20th December). I live in hope.

Hope this helps. It mainly mirrors what others have said, but there a few slight differences.

Following the engine change my car had to be returned 3 times to deal with a miss fire and the idle being at 1100 RPM when in drive. Twice they found fractures to the wiring loom and finally they traced it to a lost electrode on one of the spark plugs (Damo has previously posted a phot of the one out of his car). Apparently it vaporised and is not sitting in the cylinder.

NOTE: The replacement engine is just that, an engine, as described by Big Sheep above. All of the ancillaries (turbocharger, supercharger, spark plugs, coil packs etc) are transferred from your existing engine.

thanks guys for the reply's, lets see what the 21st brings and whether slowda are gonna make me a happy driver or just quicken up my next car choice