Well, I had an "interesting" time yesterday after breaking down on the M42, car starting juddering and "engine fault - workshop came up". Luckily I invested in all singing, all dancing Green Flag cover this year. The Green flag quickly diagnosed the No.1 injector had gone. However later we noticed some diesel leaking - is that due to the injector blocking, or was the injector fault due to the fuel leak? My garage reckons about £300 for a new injector.

 

Needless to stay, I think this is the end of the road for this car with me, I think I'll be selling up once its fixed. If anyone's wondering it seems that the economic life of an Octavia 1.6tdi seems to be 6 years and 112K miles.

I have the same impression. Since last year my 2009 has been dead reliable in the sense that everything that was likely to go south indeed went there.

 

You're lucky though. Mine started running on 3 cylinders during a take-over manoeuvre on an Italian "super strada" not even 2h into our return trip from holidays, and the part price is 710€ here (plus about 80 for working hours)...