Cold running

[teacake]

Yeah, mine was because on Skoda's advice they went all round the houses to the actual cause. Main thermostat, coolant temperature sensor, and a fun diversion via a diesel fuel rail pipe that Skoda kept sending the wrong part for. Took 18 days in total.

 

Not included in that cost: the three tyres. Two tyres I asked for, then the third within ten miles when I potholed one of these damn 18" alloys and trashed a brand new tyre.

[DEL80Y]

On 13/02/2020 at 12:49, Lucchese said:

DEL8OY I see you have changed your DSG Thermostat did you do this yourself? 

Yeah really easy job to do look above and there is a post how to do it

£19.75 delivered the next day with Amazon

[Lucchese]

Well I had a local garage change the DSG inline thermostat today and.......it worked!! (or it has so far will be on a longer run tomorrow so I will update) but so far so good. From cold it took around 10 minutes for the gauge to reach 90 and it did not move, outside temp 6.5. Oh and the cost..... a very reasonable £68.

[teacake]

Excellent, glad to hear it worked out Lucchese.

[ashfan]

On 14/02/2020 at 21:18, DMacD said:

SO I just recently bought my firs SKODA, a Superb(2015) with the same problem, running cold, temp never got above 70, even on a 40 mile motorway run. Took it back to the dealer(Main SKODA dealer) and it went something like this.(I may be paraphrasing somewhat)

 

Me: My temp is running cold, please fix it.

Dealer: Sure no problem, its probably the thermostat, well order one in and sort it.

Me: I've found online that it could also be the DSG Thermostat, should we change that too?

SKODA Mechanic: Your car doesn't have one, only the older cars have that.

Me: But Ive even got the part number I can give you(which i got from this forum)

SKODA Mechanic: Nope, your car doesn't have one of those.

Me: Ok then.

2 days later

Dealer: we've changed the thermostat and it didn't fix it, we need to send a report to SKODA, you can pick your car up till we hear back from them.

ME: Nope dont want it back till its fixed, please change the DSG thermostat.

Next day i walk into the dealer

Dealer: oh we've ordered another part for it.

Me: was it this part?(gives dealer DSG stat part number) the one you said my car didn't have?

Dealer: yeah thats the one

Another 2 days later

Dealer: Yeah that fixed it your cars ready.

 

In summary, 10 minutes on this very helpful forum and i was telling a feckin main dealer how to fix my car. Dealers hahaha.

 

I had a similar conversation with my dealer in Liverpool. As soon as I mentioned Briskoda and I had been advised that the dsg thermostat could be the problem the mechanic with apparently 10 years Skoda experience said I "don't want to be listening to them they talk a load of nonsense. I'll put it on the computer to find out what the problem is" or words to that effect. Needless to say I've never contacted them about anything Skoda related since. I went to a local VW specialist, told him what the problem was and changed the thermostat and did a dsg oil change without question. Job done