Its been many years since I had my Skoda,it was one of the first gen Superbs and despite having a few issues with it, the worse one being an engine issue which took 12 weeks at the dealers to fix, I still think it was a good car.

Everyone who went in it could not believe how good a car it was, now about 10 years or thereabouts later, hoping the badge snobbery has diminished even more, I'm thinking about another Skoda.

 

When I changed from my Skoda, it was for a Saab 9-5 Aero,  (my 3rd Saab) and my favourite car I've owned (I put 100k miles on that beauty), and for the last 7 years I've had a Honda CR-V diesel but I'm getting itchy for a new car.

Now the problem is I'm not liking many of the cars available nowadays, so my choices are slim.  I can't quite stretch to a BMW 5 series, not as keen on a 3, was contemplating a Lexus IS300h, liking the idea of a hybrid but since I'm planning to buy a caravan at some point, the Lexus is out (not any good for towing apparently)

 

But the one car I keep getting drawn back to is the Octavia vRS Estate with DSG, I'm leaning heavily to the petrol version, I know the diesel would be better for towing, but towing isn't the priority.

 

So I came back here on Briskoda to see if there are any issues and horror of horrors there's 2, TSi engine failures and problems with the DSG boxes. 

 

So here's my question, just how common are these failures, I'm looking at a brand new car most likely, I can't quite work out if these are past issues or not.

From what I've read, it seems the newer DSG boxes may be sorted, don't know if I'm reading that right.

 

Am I being too worried about it or what?

 

Cheers,

Vince

Appologies Mods, I may have ut this in the wrong forum.