Got a new engine fitted and after 13 times of turning the ignition the lamda warning light pops up. Anybody any idea's?

take it back

So has the Master Tech looked at the fact that they are possibly going to get in a new ECU.

which should have been done long before now.

 

Your replacement engine will not be the first that required this.

 

Has the latest Software been loaded on the ECU that is currently on the car?

 

Getting in a Skoda Technician that knows what he/she is doing will get things sorted a bit quicker than Ingrams can.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/315136-oil-consumption-test

Edited 18 October, 201411 yr by goneoffSKi

Yep it had the lastest software update. Its been in at skoda for 6 weeks now after the new engine has been fitted. it hasnt left the workshop due to road testing and the light popping bk on!

What engine did you go for? 2.0 TSi?

No replacement refurb 1.4 cave

No replacement refurb 1.4 cave

Haha yeah I thought so, was just hoping from the thread title someone may have attempted a performance transplant lol!

I might have 2. It may b the only way to get it bk! 

As you're in Scotland it's not those A***** C**** muppets trying to fix it, is it?

Edited 22 October, 201411 yr by PhilTheGeek

As bad as AC.

Ingram Skoda in Ayr.

So i see from the other post, no car back after 8 weeks,  

what are they going to do, & have they tried a New ECU on the car ?

 

george

They r testing the ecu as ecu's r not interchangable. Am just waitin on the results. If its not the ecu. Then they have no clue to what the problem is! 

No they are not interchangeable but they have had to have had to supply New ones from Germany before now when engines were replaced. Then recode. It is not rocket science luckily. Funny how they seem to make it like it is.

Who is testing the ecu, Ingrams or VW??

Because Ingrams can not, they have trouble checking tyre pressures correctly.

 

It is not like the engines have not been replaced before in plenty of Twinchargers.

It is really time that Ingrams or Skoda UK see to replacing your car with a usable one.

Or get a VWG Factory Trained Technician on the case of repairing yours.

Or your car taken to Milton Keynes.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/294051-cave-cthe-14tsi-just-reply-please-if-you-have-had-an-engine-replaced

Edited 1 November, 201411 yr by goneoffSKi

They have sent it away for testing. An independent tester. As they dont want to fork out for a new one! Unless its needed. If that is indeed the problem! 

Who does not want to fork out.?

 

It is a Skoda Warranty.

 

The Dealer is being paid to do the work,

not paying for it.

*Well they are getting paid to do the work in a competent manner, not if they make errors and fry the ECU.*

 

Skoda is part of the VW Group,  VW can test the ECU.

VW can supply the replacement ECU, and have had to in the past,  they supplied the Replacement engine.

 

??

Or is something else going on and it was not a 'Skoda Approved Used Car'.

?

Is that why Ingrams said in the first place that the Oil Consumption Test was being done as a Gesture'.

Edited 1 November, 201411 yr by goneoffSKi

Its a used car warranty. Manufacture warranty ran out this year. 

Am gutted. Dont think ill ever buy another vw

Don't have full background on this but surely it's time to start down the path of rejecting the car.

I dont know if i can because its out of manufactures warranty and is on used car warranty thru the skoda garage

And i dont really want to reject it as i like my wee vrs! But what can i do?

They are a Big enough Dealership & Group, 

they just have to source you a fit for purpose one that is not faulty and can be driven.

 

Skoda UK will assist them in that, or they go around the corner and get from Parks, because they are failing to sell theirs.

 

It is a case that they have sold one that Skoda / VW might well have know was likely to fail,

and then Ingrams have been unable to fit the replacement engine correctly to.

 

Even out of the Original Manufacturers Warranty Skoda UK & VW can not just be absolved of responsibility.

It was a OIl User when a Franchised Dealer sold you it.

 

Trading Standards will help you, and rejecting it and getting a replacement,

or your money back to go buy another should not be difficult taking Ingrams inability to resolve the issue.

 

Lots of good value MK2 vRS Fabia around, if you want to go get another.

I would really like another but after ma cars issues i dont know if i could buy another! Am really shocked at how skoda/vw have put out some crappy engines! I expected better.

harsh letter to dealer, wanting  to bin car and part ex against a newer CTHE engined one

I would really like another but after ma cars issues i dont know if i could buy another! Am really shocked at how skoda/vw have put out some crappy engines! I expected better.

 

You're not alone in feeling disappointed or shocked at the failing standards across the VAG model range, our family have owned 1 x Audi Avant, 3 x Vw Golf (including 2 presently), 1 x Passat, 1 x Vento, 3 x Polo, 2 x Seat Ibiza, 1 x Beetle, one Audi tt and our current Vrs fabia. Of course, this translates to no brand loyalty according to lass at Skoda, after all owning 14 models made by VAG is more likely stupidity than loyalty.

 

Couple of serious points here relating to falling standards. Of those listed above, 8 were during the nineties and early noughties, none of the 8 encountered any serious mechanical defects or failures of any kind. Of the cars bought more recently, one Polo had an engine change at 48k miles, both current Golf's have been in and out of a garage more often than Phil Mitchell, the Vrs just went through an engine change and the Audi tt gearbox needed replaced at 31k.

 

So it's on the face of it, using our own experience, easy to say that manufacturing quality standards across the group have fallen since the 80's, 90's and early noughties. Someone, somewhere in VAG needs to be asking the question as to why? It's not as if we are talking about a team of chaps building motors from old washing machines in their sheds, we are talking about one of the biggest car manufacturers on the planet, owners of the Audi, Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda, Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti brands.

 

Not only have manufacturing standards slipped, the customer service philosophy is entirely flawed as well. They have chosen to risk assess and manage on the basis of what they can get away with, and to defend that stance rather than genuinely put the customer first, and of course that is a direct consequence of someone taking a strategic decision on the quality processes and parts used during the manufacturing processes that maximised profits at the cost of the best possible product.

 

Better products means happier, returning customers, less traffic to your customer service teams, and less need to pay out for somewhere in the region of 400 engine changes at a cost of c£4700 a time.

 

Or as the head bummers in VAG would know only too well "Das Billige ist immer das Teuerste." What is cheap is always the most costly.