Hello guys,

 

I'm the owner of a 2013, Skoda Octavia (Mk3) Elegance, 1.2 tsi, with 120,000 km on it.

 

Recently my Octavia has been consuming much more oil than is acceptable so I took it to the official dealer garage for a checkup.

They weighed the oil before and after I've driven for 2000 km, and indeed the oil consumption was way higher than normal.

 

I've had a quick chat with the mechanic, and off the record he told me that he's seen it many times and that my cylinder head is probably from a faulty batch that was produced in late 2013, and that I would need a cylinder head change.

I've taken the car in for a deeper inspection and apparently the faulty cylinder head has somehow damaged the engine block as well, which leaves me with quite a costly engine change on a 4 year old car with less than 120,000 km on it.

 

The mechanic has suggested that I contact the dealer for help, but they only offer partial participation in cost, and of course they do not admit any faulty cylinder head.

I find it hard to believe that a 4 year old car that has been taken care of religiously in the dealer's garages would have an engine die.

 

Has anyone here experienced similar problems with their car, or has information on the aforementioned problem?

I would especially be interested in finding any information on faulty cylinder heads that were put into market.

 

I'm really in need for some help here.

 

Thank you all very much.

Cheers.

Anyone?

Please.

Cubic, I’m not aware of a problem like this ever cropping up and if it’s not faulty manufacture might it be down to poor service/repair work in the past?

 

If it was me, my first step in establishing whether there was a problem with faulty cylinder heads is to write a letter/email to the Skoda importer in Israel asking for a formal response.

 

Does your insurance policy cover this kind of damage?

Edited 21 January, 20188 yr by MorrisOx

If it is due to poor service, then it's the dealer's garage that's at fault.

 

I don't believe it's poor service though... the damage to the engine is in the form of scratches on the cylinder bores, which were probably caused by clogged oil passages in the cylinder head.

As the car is maintained carefully and oil and oil filters are changed routinely (by the dealer's garage), I don't see a reason for that happening due to poor service.

 

The damage and the circumstances fit to the problem the mechanic described.

I've also asked around and found a couple more people with similar issues of the same engine.

 

Unfortunately, my insurance doesn't cover this kind of damage.

Like I say, I think you need to get in touch with the Skoda importer in Israel and ask them formally if they know of a problem with cylinder heads etc. Your final option is to ask a qualified motor engineer to write a report about the likely cause of the damage and use that to chase compensation - but the report itself would cost quite a few shekels and I’d only go down that path if I was very sure of myself.

 

No easy way out and I feel really sorry for you. Best of luck.

A faulty cylinder head isn't going to scratch up your bores.

A clogged oil passage in the head will destroy something related to the camshafts.

 

Go to a garage the have the equipment to look into the cylinders without removing the head.

 

What you describe sounds like a broken piston / broken piston rings.