well ive now had the news after weeks of messing about and changing the oil breather, which i might add never worked at all, and topping up oil every 600 miles, i am now getting a new engine, and about time, but what grieves me is ive just had my 40,000 miles service, but im not arguing, but they are not giving me a 3year warrenty on the new engine, is that right?, So happy days at last.

well i hope it works ok for you but my 'new' engine still uses oil after 3k miles so dont build your hopes up just yet, again some work fine and others dont :/

i did manage to get a 1 year warranty extension out of them but it was hard work getting it so again good luck with that

I was in my local dealership Saturday waiting for the parts guy and,if I heard correctly,he was telling the customer before me that the window regulator he wanted,being a Skoda part,had a 2 year warranty,so said customer would be unwise just to buy a cheap eBay repair kit.

This being the case it would seem illogical if a new engine was not warranted for at least 2 years

illogical or not, they dont offer any warranty extension with the new/refurbished engine

illogical or not, they dont offer any warranty extension with the new/refurbished engine

But you said you "got a one year warranty extension out of them." so it seems there is no official policy...so if one why not two?

Illogical usually means incorrect in my world.IMO if all those who have had a new engine joined together against Skoda a lot better deal would happen regarding warranty extension...easier said than done,of course.

I was in my local dealership Saturday waiting for the parts guy and,if I heard correctly,he was telling the customer before me that the window regulator he wanted,being a Skoda part,had a 2 year warranty,so said customer would be unwise just to buy a cheap eBay repair kit.

This being the case it would seem illogical if a new engine was not warranted for at least 2 years

How it works with BMW is, "You dont get warranty on warranty" . If you pay for a new engine (or pay a contrbution),then you will get a parts warranty of 2 years.It is irrelevant what and when parts are replaced during manufactures warranty,when the three years up then thats that.

Edited 4 June, 201313 yr by PulsarET

Slightly different situation here and why someone needs to make a legal challenge.

Skoda/VAG know there was and is a fault and continue in the EU/UK and around the world to sell vehicles that they know are fitted with faulty or substandard parts that can cause engine failure.

So by 'Sale of Goods act' in the UK, that will quite possibly be, 'Not of Merchantable Quality'.

Cars have been returned by customers,

these cars have been repaired and then put back into the Trade and into Skoda Dealerships and sold under Skoda Used car Warranties, and some of these are failing again.

Some were Dealers Demonstrators with the 3000-4000 miles on them, and the first ones that were Demonstrators are out of Manufacturers Warranties after August this year and some are still not Repaired and are failing now.

An engine needing replaced, when they know the VIN numbers of the vehicles that will be effected, they have make changes to the engines they know are faulty.

Its a whole different game from just rendom minor parts.

If engines are replaced they might well be at the expense of Skoda/VW/SEAT/Audi, but they are replacing because of their Design or Quality control of parts.

The customer of a new vehicle or even those that bought second hand can expect at least a decent life of usage from the vehicle after purchase.

(Now buyers know to purchase the Extended Warranty when Buying to possibly have 5 years of piece of mind.)

They should be confident that after fair use and wear and tear they will still have a usable or saleable vehicle.

An Extended Warranty is going to cost VAG nothing if they are confident in the product after carrying out the Warranty Engine Rebuild or Replacement.

'Someone somewhere in Skoda is getting leave to say there will be an extension, so why does a customer that has required a new engine not get the position in writing from Skoda.'

george

Well said,George.

If a manufacturer cannot fit a complete new engine and not provide a further 3yrs/60K miles warranty then they have,and must know they have,a product not fit for purpose.

yes i got a warranty but not with the help of the dealers, nor initially from skoda themselves.

i had to write a few letters/have phone calls to and fro going up the chain of command which then took about 4 months to achieve the result i sort of wanted, hardly easy and possibly quite off-putting for most people, im just a pain in the a$$. had i don nothing then no warranty would have been forthcoming and when i say sort of, this is because 18 months of my car warranty has now expired and i got 12 months extended, really i wanted those 18 months back.

the warranty itself came from 'car care plan' so im assuming there is actually a cost to skoda as although it says skoda approved its by a third party so somebody has had to pay for this. i was like George and thought it costs them nothing to warranty but im wrong as it appears there is some cost, regardless of how much it ACTUALLY cost them.

so now i have till sep 2015 to find a replacement

I can see what you are saying George,and totally agree with you.But i have been working for BMW now for 15 years,and have never seen them put a 3 year warranty on ANY component, engine or otherwise fitted via warrant.They are pretty good at fixing known issuse outside of warrant via goodwill/DSA,but they will not warranty that repair unless the customer has paid a lump towards that repair/part.

Maybe VAG/Skoda are different.......Be nice to think so.

I know there is a monetary cost to someone.

Be it the Manufacturer or however the Insurance is covered.

Warranties are Insurance and a Financial undertaking.

Skoda have the system in place, as do dealers, everything is about money.

Its the Penny Pinching and lack of Quality Control that caused the problem and Skoda/VAG stretching out Repairs in Dribs and Drabs.

Because it is not being treated as safety risk there are no recalls as such, and no real procedure set down for dealers other than the 'Oil Consumption test', Breather Mod', then the uming and ahhing.

'Warning off customers' that the Oil Change may cost them if there are no problems'.

Its Kidology and just taking the Pith actually.

Skoda are getting off lightly in the Expense Front IMO.

Customers have bought a product that within several months of being on sale to the Public Skoda/VAG knew had problems.

The Demonstrators had problems and customers of Seat in 2009, Skodas in 2010,

Its 2013 and the cars with faults are still not being promptly repaired in many cases.

george