Hello from what seems like ‘stranded in Spain’.  A quick resume.  2009 FL vRS CR 170. Drove from North to South in a ‘spirited way’ as they say along motorways (about 520 miles).  In the UK a lot of my driving is motorway as well.

 

A few days later the ‘exhaust control system light comes on’.  Car still performing ok.  I call Skoda Assist (I’m out of Warranty but bought another 2 years of Assist).  They pointed me at a dealer about 15 miles away who couldn’t take the car for a couple more days anyway (today 19th).

 

Took it in this morning.  An hour later they tell me it’s the sensor (referenced in this post and when I looked at the old and new part number they match). 

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/173341-control-system-for-exhaust-gases/

 

They also said it needed a regen.  Back at 1pm and the regen hadn’t worked so they would have another go after their siesta.  Back at 6pm and no joy.  Need a new DPF at about 2000 euros.  They can’t do this for 10 days.  I get in the car and it has now got 3 lights on (Exhaust as before; DPF which wasn’t on before and has never been on in 50000 miles; and the glow plugs).  And the car is driving in limp mode – again was fine when I took it in.

 

So all a bit fraught.  If I get this done (and I may have no choice) then the warranty on the new unit should it develop a fault won’t be recognised by SUK I would guess.  And as I see it this is a DPF that should easily have lasted more than 3.5 years of motorway driving – but what chance of SUK listening when it was changed by a non-UK dealer.

Any and all thoughts would be welcomed.  Skoda Assist due to call me in the morning (sat 20^th) but so far all they can say is that it’s a Skoda dealer and we have to follow what they say.  I may even have to return to UK before the due date – not sure how I will manage that either; slowly?

 

As an aside, and it could be a red herring, the work sheet shows the code for the ‘motor’ as CEGY – but my service book shows CEGA – could just be a typo?

 

Teach me to come to Spain in my own car – or at least one that is not inside the 3 year warranty period.

 

Skoda dealer fitted a new DPF pressure sensor to mine last week. Then to be told they could not get it to regen so where waiting on Skoda UK to give them some assistance in coding it. I had exact same thing all three lights on and limp mode. All for sorted with some new values.

The new sensor should have made in maylasia written on it as the USA one is the one causing problems.

Hope it gets sorted for you dude.

dont worry about the warranty of any new oe parts, by law they are covered all over europe. The dealer and suk will try and tell you otherwise.