Good evening all.

I have been reading up on this problem with excessive oil consumption with EA888 engines. My Octavia on a 11 plate, with just under 75,000 miles, is using about a litre of oil a week; this having increased to this level from when I had the car at 56,000. I have just had the burn test done at my local Poole Skoda dealership and my Octavia only ran for 396 miles before the oil light came on. As with all the other comments on this issue it appears that this is a common issue with these engines covering 2009 to 2014 across VAG.

I'm struggling to establish what the actual cause of this fault is. Clearly oil is being used, although no signs of this from the exhaust, and Skoda say a full engine rebuild will be required to include pistons, rings etc. This will cost over £4000. Is the cause for this issue down to a design fault with the engine? or perhaps a production line problem?  There appear to be so many instances of excessive oil usage in these engines that it cannot be down to the end user being at fault.

Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. 

General consensus seems to be the rubbish design of the oil control rings which have microscopic drain holes. They get blocked up and so stop performing their oil scraper function.

 

Latest pistons have better rings, but you also need new conrods because of different gudgeon pin size 

1 hour ago, Monty28 said:

Good evening all.

I have been reading up on this problem with excessive oil consumption with EA888 engines. My Octavia on a 11 plate, with just under 75,000 miles, is using about a litre of oil a week; this having increased to this level from when I had the car at 56,000. I have just had the burn test done at my local Poole Skoda dealership and my Octavia only ran for 396 miles before the oil light came on. As with all the other comments on this issue it appears that this is a common issue with these engines covering 2009 to 2014 across VAG.

I'm struggling to establish what the actual cause of this fault is. Clearly oil is being used, although no signs of this from the exhaust, and Skoda say a full engine rebuild will be required to include pistons, rings etc. This will cost over £4000. Is the cause for this issue down to a design fault with the engine? or perhaps a production line problem?  There appear to be so many instances of excessive oil usage in these engines that it cannot be down to the end user being at fault.

Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. 

 

Post in the MK2 section where you'll likely find many others with this issue too. This is less of a problem on the MK3 from 2013 onwards. My 63 plate requires none between 10k services.

 

My 59 plate MK2 facelift however, needed regular top ups almost every other week which seemed to get worse as mileage went on. Sold it at just over 80k.

Edited 15 November, 20187 yr by ahenners

Hi Xman

Thanks for your quick reply.....keep on digging. I'm another! Just trying to formulate the best approach to this. Skoda UK have declined a good will payment. I am rapidly forming the view that this could be a design fault and therefore why should the owner pay the total bill.  

Thanks again.