Well after 107,000 miles, I have had my first breakdown, and nearly no car.

Went out tried to start it, it just tied to start but wouldn't, then I could smell petrol, had a look under the bonnet but couldn't see anything, tried again nothing,

Mechanic came out and I turned it over as he looked, he found that fuel was coming from the rail that runs across the front of the engine, and that it would need taking to his garage.

he called and said after a better look that it could be an injector seal, and it would need the front of the engine stripping down to get to it and replace.

what we cannot understand is I went out to the car last night at 10pm it started and drove fine , came home parked got out and went back out at 11am to get this problem.

anyone else had it , or similar??/

I think that this engine is an E211 family along with the 1.2TSI 16V, it seems that there have been a few, maybe 9 members of this forum, that have had a bolt sheared its head, these bolts, 4 of them, secure the high pressure fuel rail to the cylinder head, and it has been reported that Skoda, who's factories build at least all the 1.2TSI 16V versions, found that they need to amend the equipment or process used to torque up these bolts at initial assembly and that your engine, if also built in the same Skoda factory, would have been built within the time period where Skoda expected to see some failures occur, but they never carried out an official recall, just a workshop action plan for when failures occurred, nice eh?

 

Typically it is the bolt nearest the RHS of the rail that fails due to not being tightened up correctly, that allows high pressure fuel to escape from the now loose injector for cylinder one - these bolts secure the high pressure fuel rail to the engine and that is how the injectors are clamped in position and sealed in normal service..

 

The official fix is a kit of seals, bolts, and it seems a new high pressure fuel rail.

 

Now, if this pans out to be what has happened to your engine, which seems strange that it has taken so long for this to happen, then Skoda should either  up in full, or you should offer to get help to make them pay up in full (court action and/or public shaming). If something happened to cause this then please come back and tell us about it.

 

Edit:-   this is the Fabia MK3 topic I was referring to   

 

Edited 29 October, 20205 yr by rum4mo

That sounds about right, hopefully a new bolt will fix it and new seals.

 

The bolt on the pully end  of the high pressure fuel rail had become slack enough to allow number 1 injector to spray fuel out into the engine bay.

New seals on all 4 injectors and new bolts fitted with lock tight and back on the road , cost £192.

 

Edited 31 October, 20205 yr by skippy41