I have a Skoda Octavia estate with the 1.9pd Diesel engine and have done 84,000 miles with no problems whatever apart from needing the dual mass flywheel replaced under warranty at 22,000 miles. There is absolutely no sign of rust and the interior is almost like new.

I've had it serviced regularly and it seems to be running really well. Should I keep this car for another 30 - 50,000 miles, or am I likely to start hitting reliability problems soon? I think I would go for the new or nearly new post 2013 2.0 litre Diesel engined Octavia as my next car, but feel I may be better off keeping my present car.

I'd be grateful for advice!

Looked after it will go on much beyond another 50,000 miles.

Mine's just on 145K, no issues other than consumables. Just had it remapped in fact

My old mk1 Fabia has just been MOT'd in excess of 188k miles and c.200bhp.

Keep a regular service regime and you'll be fine.

^ I am said owner of Mr5's PD130 Fabia, 189,000 miles on the way to the Lake District over the weekend, MOT'd the week before with no issues at all.

 

Mechanically sound and 200bhp 300lb.ft so not standard.

 

Might treat it to a clutch/SMF to aid the 300lb.ft usage soon too!

Thanks - any other views out there?

If serviced properly I would have no concerns with long term reliability.

 

Correct oil and servicing is critical for the PD engines so ensure this is done and you'll be fine.

 

The 1.9 is economical and has plenty of punch to get you moving even loaded up so it's a good balance with just noise at idle and high revs being the compromise.

 

I will not hesitate taking it to Germany once again this year. We are likely to do around 2000 miles. I can get from York to Germany via Dover on one tank of fuel.

 

Just done a service at 50k miles.

 

Also I assume you have had the cambelt done at some point?

Edited 1 September, 201510 yr by Phil-E

Yes - I've replaced the cambelt at the right interval, and the car has had all its regular services and oil changes.

Thanks everyone for your helpful comments - I'm going to hold onto what has so far proved to be the most reliable car I've yet owned!

Treated right, absolutely reliable. Cut corners on the servicing, like the muppet who owned mine did, and you'll have problems.

Also advisable to replace the auxiliary belt at some point.

 

There is no service interval on it just an inspect/replace if necessary kind of thing but for the sake of £10 I recently changed mine as there have been cases of them snapping, getting tangled in the cambelt and wrecking the engine.

 

Mine was the original (stamped 14-08-07) belt and looked ok but there were some signs of the rubber inside starting to crack.

 

What you will probably find is that other general things around the car need replacing like rubber bushes, brakes, suspension parts etc before the engine has anything wrong with it.

Hi

My 2009 1.9 has 87000 on it and has had no engine issues other then maintainance cycle stuff.

The front suspension will need doing very soon but otherwise she is doing well.

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As long as its serviced correctly and not the BXE variant (which throws conrods through the block) you should get moon mileage out of it easy.

How can you identify the bxe engine.

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