2 hours ago, Karenbrewer said:

Invaluable. Albeit complicated. It’s not in my dna to not put up a fight, so will think about the next course of action. Thank you all. A great community for helping me out. 

Best of luck - but seriously do not commit too much money with a lawyer no matter what they say and you will have to bear the cost of an engineering report and strip down of the faulty engine to identify the substandard part than failed. The car is seven years old and was not serviced by Skoda so even you will have to prove that all the service parts were actual Skoda original parts, your chance of winning anything is remote. If you had the car regularly serviced at a good Skoda main dealer they MIGHT, just might, have offered you something (not much) off the repair for “goodwill” , but frankly I doubt it. Hate to be the bearer of bad news but you could be expending much time and angst on a lost cause, remember the car is 4 years out of warranty.

Follow the advice of other members and get your local garage - possibly the one that has serviced it if you have a good relationship with them - to investigate a rebuild of the engine.

Hello, yes it is a 1.8 TSI engine and Skoda have said it needs a new engine. We are waiting for explanation. 

The reason for my question, is Skoda's definition of needing a new engine might be different to that of webuyanycar.com's.

 

If it is running, and running OK, but is exhibiting the early signs of the well documented increased oil consumption, then it might not be too late to sell it.

 

Was it recovered to the Skoda dealer on the back of a lorry, or did you drive it there?

 

What were the symptoms, what prompted you to take the car to Skoda?

 

Is it consuming excessive amounts of engine oil?

 

Is the engine underpowered, rattling, burning oil from the exhaust?

 

Are there any other obvious tell tale signs to show the car is in need of a new engine?

I don’t think I will commit to legal costs. The info I’ve gathered so far from you is very helpful. I’ve campaigned for many groups in the past and am used to working with both print and social media, government and business. So I will see how I get on. I see this as wrong and it needs addressing. Thanks again . 

Hello

It rattled lost power and went into what I think is called limp mode home. Had to go by recovery to Nearest Skoda dealer, 30 miles away. We were told it can’t be driven. So it’s either a write off for us, having spent £27k, 7 years ago, or a repair. I think Skoda should have informed all buyers of this potential problem and advised how to redress. That would have been a positive way of dealing with this rather than waiting for engines to fail and put people through the grief of dealing with it at point of failure. Dreadful customer relations. 

@Karenbrewer

It is against natural justice.  But that is the VW way.

  Nobody holds them to account and the only ones that benefit is Solicitors and Lawyers, mainly VW's.

They have Media Groups and Motoring Journalists in their pocket.  Not many are telling it how it is other than Honest John or Bob Flavin.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/444773-considering-a-class-action-lawsuit-against-skoda-uk

 

...absolutely gutted for you. This simply is not acceptable as it is obviously a well publisised design / manufacturing fault. I guess the "normal" value of your car 2nd hand would be around the £6k mark? (Similar cars on Autotrader), so I suppose it would be worth a repair assuming you could get another few years service out of it. Does make me angry that major players in the car market will not accept any liability and can get away with this sort of thing on a regular basis. OK I accept they are not going to give you the full costs of replacement as you have had 7 years use, but I would have thought a contribution of some kind? I have always accepted a level of depreciation, (just sold our 17yr old MX5 for £2k, which we had new for £16k, so still less than £1k per year depreciation).

Modern cars are far more complex and my concern would normally be the electro mechanical parts which are not normally serviceable items and I assume will always be the limiting factor in determining a cars overall lifespan. But I would still expect a modern car to go for more than 7 years before it bites the dust!

(audi alteram partem) 

 that made me near spit out my coffee.

 

 

Edited 16 January, 20206 yr by Roottootemblowinootsoot

4 hours ago, Roottootemblowinootsoot said:

(audi alteram partem) 

 that made me near spit out my coffee.

 

 

If you want justice go to your God, on Earth you get the law which, might or might not, be justice! Probably not.

Hello again.. just found out that expensive optional extra of electronic sunroof has also failed with estimated cost of £2k. Does anyone have any Information on this happening? Thanks in advance if so. 

On 14/01/2020 at 16:49, Karenbrewer said:

We are shocked to discover our 7 year old Yeti requires a new engine costing £4K. I’ve read about the Skoda Octavia having engine problems with some reference that the Yeti could have the same. We were so impressed with the motor trade reviews when the Yeti was launched that we bought it new, in good faith, at a cost of around £27k. It has been serviced regularly and only has 90k on the clock. I see that some owners have challenged Skoda about this failure and cost of repair and would appreciate any help or advice. Thank you in advance 

 

Do you know how it has failed? I know it rattled but have they confirmed the timing chain gave way,. or it ran out of oil? peoples replies to this post have been guessing at the actual fault with your engine, a repair job of 1-1.5k sounds low to me, and taking the engine out and replacing it with a second hand unit is just poor advice also, if you take into account any items that should be replaced whilst the engine is out/apart (i.e. you would probably do clutch at the same time). 

 

We were in exactly the same situation and walked away as soon as i knew it needed taking apart because of the risk of things going in the future.  If you do repair your existing engine, you would want to budget for preventative items to be fitted also, i.e. oil pump in the sump, water pump, full chain, tensioner and gasket set (all genuine not eurocarparts rubbish), the costs will mount up with labour

 

 

 

Edited 16 January, 20206 yr by delitfol

Hello again

 

This is the full explanation from Skoda dealer who is willing to take it up with Skoda. Cost of repair with expensive electronic sunroof which has also failed is £6k including labour. Any thought on the sunroof? Or anything else? 

“The investigation has proven the number 2 valve has burnt out. They could rebuild it and some associated parts – the cam shaft – but the lower parts costs would be outweighed by labour costs so you are looking at something similar to the engine replacement. There would also be a risk that the debris of whatever burnt off the valve maybe still elsewhere in the bottom of the engine and would cause a future failure – again this is something that makes the engine replacement perhaps a better option. 

 

However, he has repeated that given the age of the car – 7 years -and the fact that the water that’s pooling on the passenger side might mean we replace the sun roof – cost £2000 – may make this all not worthwhile. (he thinks the water is a problem to do with a drainage channel that runs inside the framework of the car from the roof and out of the car. It looks like this has failed and is leaking into the bottom of the car)”

 

Skoda UK dealerships must be thinking leaking Yeti are the goose that laid the Golden egg.

 

Incredible! It gets better and better 

The cost of having anything significant fixed on a 7 year old car by a main dealer makes it uneconomic, someone handy on the tools will snap it up and take the gamble, it may only cost them an exhaust valve and a top end gasket set plus clear a blocked drain tube or reconnect it, could cost them more but in the worst case they could get their money back and more by breaking it for parts.

 

If its worth £7K in good running order I think you would get £2-3K on Ebay but I am basing that on paying £750 for a car that would have been worth £2K but for it needing a new engine block according to the persons garage, I was confident it didnt and £30 delivered for an alternator bracket from a breaker had it sorted.

 

Of course the economics were different as the spares value would definitely exceed what I paid.

 

Perhaps others will give a knowledgeable estimate of what it would bring on E-bay for spares/repair.

 

One thing is for sure 20 years ago you would have no choice but to accept what the local scrapyard offered or perhaps a mechanic at the garage or someone they knew, E-bay has changed all that, it would sell, it has a value, someone else will hopefully give you a more definitive figure than me, whatever it is adding that money to what you would have to pay the garage will get you a better albeit unknown car perhaps with its own future problems.

 

good luck.