Chris that is great to hear.

If they could deal with all customers in the same way that is going to be really good.

There certainly are a few like yourself recently that are getting good customer service.

Maybe the likes of the legal action being taken in Australia will lead to some Corporate changes in attitude from VAG/SKODA to their manufacturing or design faults being dealt with.

If they just get on with replacing Catalytic converters where required and give some extension on the warranty of the replacement engine or rebuild in the cases where they have dragged it out until there are only a few months of the 3 year warranty to run

george

PS. Never had any problem with dealing with Skoda myself, always just stated my Consumer rights and had those respected and honoured as they should be.

(ie, Corroding Alloys & hopeless Dealership that misleads or lies)

I have never ever in any post suggested that anyone uses other oils, in fact i have always said only use the correct oil.

I just happen to use 5w 40 because it suits me.

I have bought 2 rejected vRS second,and third hand and had no problems with them.

I can highly recommend them as a good cheap used purchase when they have been properly repaired.

The 5w30 vs 5w40 debate:

Mine was drinking about a litre every 2000 miles (so below spec). Ran out of 5w30 so went to a litre of 5w40. Lasted almost 8000 miles before needing topping up after that (variable/18.5k service interval as I do 30-40k a year).

By "needing topping up" I get a clue from the oil temp (hits 94 or 95 when cruising the motorway when starting to run low; normally 89-90 when full) but wait for the yellow oil light. Some might scorn my method (wait till it tells me) but I can't be checking it before each trip > 100 miles as that would be every day. I don't check the fuel gauge that often!

Now had its first (18.5k) service; next one due at about 37k so we'll see how it does on the second (third) sumpful. It basically had a full oil change and a bit between services anyway..

My engine was replaced last month. I have had excellent support from the dealer ever since the start of the oil consumption saga. I was getting free oil, then had the oil breather modification done off the back of my own oil usage figures. That made no difference, so then had an oil consumption test, before having the new engine fitted. The new engine has not used any oil over the first 750 miles.

Skoda UK were OK in supporting my case but it has required frequent communication. However, my experience of SUK is that they will not get into any technical discussion and will not acknowledge that there are many other customers with the same problem (perhaps understandably).

5w-30/5w-40 told by my dealer that either is acceptable although 5w-40 better for people doing higher mileage.

Mine is going in this week for 2nd year service, only got 7,000 on the clock (i have owned since new) and I have put 1 litre of top ups in dribs and drabs between day 1 and the second year service.

I guess (luckily) i have a good one.

My previous petrol VRS was using around a litre every 1000 miles when I bought it at 46k. By the time I sold it at 85k miles it had dropped by half, so a litre every 2 to 2.5k miles. That's was after converting to 5w 40 and thrashing it after a remap.

New car bought at 1200 miles, now at 4k, and can't detect any consumption, level is still at the top of the twist on the dipstick which I think is the max level. It's also been driven hard at times from the day I got it, ie full throttle and 6k revs. So it appears they're not all equal, and ime driving it hard was beneficial.

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So it appears they're not all equal, and ime driving it hard was beneficial.

I think you have a point. When my car was new I drove gently for the first 1000 miles and kept below 4k revs for the first 500 miles. Then later on discovered that I had bad oil consumption. The replacement engine has been driven hard from day one (plenty of full throttle, frequent manual gear changing and lots of revs). So far no oil consumed.

Dealer still hasn't bothered to find out what a consumption test involves yet, how long should they need my car for roughly as they've not offered a courtesy vehicle yet either, a day, 2 days?

Thanks

Few hours

Few hours

Ah, thank you :-)

My old one was using a litre every 4k or so before we got rid, did 11k in it and think i only topped it up once myself and that was only 300ml or so after about 2.5/3k. Id have been unhappy if I was having to check the oil every few hundred miles; thats not right on any car.

our car was using lots of oil, after the breather fix we are just border line with about a litre per 1000 miles so we have been discharged from the dealers process.

One thing I have noticed though is most of the time my wife drives the car, very short journeys to and from work and oil usage was high.

I drove the car for the 160 miles for the oil usage test and usage was low, I also took the car to Oulton Park for a track day, the car used £85 worth of petrol covered 180 miles with every gear change on 6500 rpm, I was amazed when I dipped the oil and it had used NONE!

So thrash your car and usage will reduce maybe????

I do think there is a problem with this engine just trundling around, there is nowhere to use this car hard where I live, the most we have is quarter of a mile of dual carriageway, one side of that is 40mph for 200 yards and 30mph for 100 yards!

Will be interesting when I eventually get on the 'mainland' on a motorway and see what oil usage is there.

I'm with you both on that theory too. Normally I'm stuck in stop start traffic not doing many mpg even with low rpm's and last time it used 400ml in one tank (260miles). This week I've been messing about, using the paddles but using more of the revs. By that I mean instead of changing to 5th when I normally would I'd leave it in 4th and leave the revs higher. I was also doing short in gear blasts just to hear the engine and for fun. Just come back from a spin and I hooned back from Ammanford to home which is about 10 miles fairly quickly and plenty of revs and didn't bother with 7th gear at all. I'd just filled up too so when I got in I parked on level ground, waited a few mins then checked the oil. It hadn't used any. I double and triple checked but it's still on the max marker.

If there is a logical explanation why an engine worked hard should use less oil than one that is not then I've not heard it.

I know the vRS twin charger engine is very unusual,perhaps unique,but there must be some reason for the opposite to what you might expect to happen.

That seems to be issue for some reason ? When the cars are driven normally ( as you would do with a normal car) it will use oil but when you drive enthusiastically it uses little or non ? Very strange, looks like the breather fix does work for a while but then issues again reoccur and quite often full engine fail? Some cars are fine up to a certain mileage then the issue of oil arrives? It's been said that 50% of the Italian 1.4tsi cars are faulty ? ( which includes all the vag cars ) , if this is so Italy wouldn't just have the issues it would be global ? Would a Facebook or similar global page where all with issues logged their cars , so a true picture of the issue could be seen? It would cover all the vag 1.4tsi engined chariots and possibly be used to portray the issue more fully to vw ? I'm no Internet geek but would this be useful or just ignore me

Our 'Breather Pipe Fix' didnt work at all. In fact, it made it worse

(0.9 litres used in 107 miles after the 'Fix')

It now uses none after the new engine has been fitted

Our 'Breather Pipe Fix' didnt work at all. In fact, it made it worse

(0.9 litres used in 107 miles after the 'Fix')

It now uses none after the new engine has been fitted

So the fix didn't fix it lol ? Your new engine how long in and mileage done, you may not be out of the woods yet as some of the replacement engines are failing :(

I'm confident about it

Why are you so negative?

It it fails again, then another engine will be fitted

Will be trading the car in in October..so no worries at all

I'm confident about it

Why are you so negative?

It it fails again, then another engine will be fitted

Will be trading the car in in October..so no worries at all

Negative me nooooo realistic ? Maybe anyway what are you going to be trading it in for ? Another perhaps or maybe not

I've done 3.5 thousand and still no usage to report...

Negative me nooooo realistic ? Maybe anyway what are you going to be trading it in for ? Another perhaps or maybe not

A Citroen DS3 Sport or a Suzuki Sport or a Mini Cooper or.......Dunno..Not another Fabia though

I'm confident about it

Why are you so negative?

It it fails again, then another engine will be fitted

Will be trading the car in in October..so no worries at all

This is my thinking. If it goes wrong then Skoda can fix it. I'm not keeping it out of warranty either. In fact it may be going a lot sooner than that

I've done 3.5 thousand and still no usage to report...

But 3.5 k to run it on fuel evil !

A Citroen DS3 Sport or a Suzuki Sport or a Mini Cooper or.......Dunno..Not another Fabia though

Chris rats n sinking ship lol, I do like the ds3 look, Suzuki is a great little car ( they say its the new mini )

This is my thinking. If it goes wrong then Skoda can fix it. I'm not keeping it out of warranty either. In fact it may be going a lot sooner than that

That's what I mean martyn it'll be a worry after the warranty has gone IMO