After only 3 months (3.5k miles) the DSG auto box on my new Octavia estate has failed...requiring a tow by AA to dealer.

After driving 15 miles on M-way last Sunday...while leaving an exit...sudden jolt and all gear lights in DIS flashing...all gears lost except bottom...gas exhaust light came on. Limped to nearest layby and called AA.

After 5 hours researching codes dealer advises failure of a mechnical valve...and has ordered a mechatronic replacment...will take 5-10 days min.

Has anyone else had similar problems? I thought DSG's and Skoda's were very reliable!

chris

SORRY :( to hear about your problem.

Does anyone know if VW have had the same Issues ?, it could be faulty batch of components.

Hopefully it's just the one duffer in every few thousand that make it through all the tests by the skin of it's teeth only to fail later.

Hope it all gets sorted for you.

I've heard of a few failures but as a percentage it is tiny and very isolated. Skoda do treat these issues very seriously and will investigate the replaced parts to see what happened and why.

So dont panic.

Sorry to hear of this, bad way to join the site... but least your warranty is there and Skoda being skoda it will all be sorted.

I have read of DSG problems and failures on other forums - the UK Audi-TT Forum being one example.

The TT was the first to get DSG so the problems are more likely to be with them. The DSG in the Octavia is a development of this so should have the bugs worked out of it luckily enough for us.

Search for my posts to see the problems I've had with my DSG.

Still like the car a lot though.

Search for my posts to see the problems I've had with my DSG.

Still like the car a lot though.

So do I after only 500 miles. Still, as I understand it the DSG is hardly rocket science, being two nested conventional boxes with double clutches. The vulnerable aspects would seem to be:

- the electronics managing the whole shebang - but they should either fail early or very much later.

- the wet clutches - obviously much better than dry, but how well proven, and could they get recalcitrant?

Very pleased with ours so far, but a teensy bit jerky when cold, and the changes are not as instantaneous as I had initially expected - but then I realised that the engine had to slow down/speed up at each change, so even if the clutches were millisecond-quick the overall change simply couldn't be.