Sorry if this has been asked before. Is the EA288 installed in the Octavia III?  

 

4-11-2015: EA288 1.8TFSI and 2.0TFSI engines recalled in USA because the rear camshaft lobe is prone to unexpectedly shear off from the shaft. The failure causes reduced engine power and loss of vacuum pump power, cutting vacuum supply to the brake booster and eventually resulting in increased braking effort."A reduction in engine power and/or increased need for braking effort after vacuum reserve has been depleted while driving can increase the risk of a crash," a statement cautions. The campaign affects approximately 92,000 vehicles including the 2015-2016 Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Golf, Golf GTI, Golf SportWagen, Jetta and Passat. In notifying the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, VAG stated that the root cause of the camshaft failures has not been fully understood. The company is still continuing an in-depth failure analysis and development of a repair solution, however a fix may not be ready until the end of the first quarter of 2016.

This only applies to Engines made in Mexico for the US market

As well as that issue, there is now a Recall in Russia by VW of some vehicles built in the past 2 years with Valvetrain problems.

& there are issues in Australia with some engines.

 

That is VW for you, always something going on with Poor Component Manufacturing, Sourcing or Quality Control.

Decades of Engine Building and Penny Pinching and failures,

more interested in New Technology and Cheats of testing, and increasing sales than Longevity and reliability.

Vorsprung Durch Technik

 

http://master.skoda-auto.com/mini-apps/recall-actions

On Octavia, this is the EA888 engine. Second generation on O2, third on O3.

Thank you for the replies and reassurance.