Good evening Skoda lovers, especially CAVE CHTE owners,

 

My reliable oil drinking Fabia just explode on the way back to home last week with piston failure ( my mechanic had a look and told me that Piston 3 had exploded ).

 

Car was regularly serviced, oil level checked and changed often, car has around 59 000 miles.

 

I am now speaking with Skoda about the oil consumption and how abnormal is to drink 1 litres every 600 miles. They said they will charge me £60 + VAT to inspect the engine ( which I understand ). Has anyone else had a similar problem on getting a replacement engine? 

 

Please let me know.

 

Thanks from OuiOui VRS :) 

Welcome sadly to the forum.

 

So what do you have a CAVE or CTHE, and when built, and how long owned?

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Was yours drinking 1 litre every 600 miles and for how long and did you do nothing about it?

 

Just a few hundred engines replaced out of the under 3,000 Skoda Twinchargers in the UK, and then in the SEAT's VW's & Audi's.

Not that Skoda UK have ever heard of it, overblown on the internet.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/294051-cave-cthe-14tsi-just-reply-please-if-you-have-had-an-engine-replaced

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/353149-fabia-mk2-vrs-14tsi-replaced-engines-replaced-how-many

 

Hello there,

Thank you so much for your quick return. I really appreciate

it is a CHTE from 2012 and I have the car since 1 years. Since the beginning I saw on your forum that a lot of people having problem with oil consumption but I really like this Skoda so I decide to buy one and thinking that oil consumption will be not a problem... 

But I always check the level like a paranoïd man and I was not assuming that the engine will blow up.

What you would recommend to get sorted? Do you think Skoda will help me? If I replace the engine will the same thing happen? 
it is a shame... Poor baby VRS... 😞

I doubt very much that Skoda will help you in anyway with your engine.

You can only ask.

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Do you know that nothing has been done in the 6 years before you got it, no official oil consumption test or any warranty work carried out?

Oh really! FFS how can an engine blow up at 60 000 and even before of what I read... she cames to Skoda at the very beginning for services and a recall for a « remap » of the gearbox. I buy it from a Independant garage and have nothing from him. 

i will bring the car to Skoda (with A trailer) because I don’t want to destroy anything. But If I have to pay 60 + vat and they say to me you will have to pay for the reparation what the point... I hope they will do it in a professional way. 

For you it is dead, they will do nothing? 

many thanks 

I am concluding from your postings and username that you are dealing with a French Skoda concessionaire, - n'est ce pas?

Edited 26 November, 20196 yr by J.R.

Wrong ! I am french I live in the UK but it is a UK car buy in UK  

But nationalities will unfortunately not make the problem sorted... 

thanks for your return anyway are you french? 

Oil drinking 60k miles from 2012 birth not good, I did about 28,000 miles in a 2010 oil burning cave, but paid for the oil fixes myself in 2016 a long winded process, 'Good will' expired now 5 years on from reg date even 2014  owners will be close to the limit of goodwill, and that is if you have full service history + know the garage etc..