No4 injector fails at 117,000, not cheap but RAC fetching and fitting to get back working

 

Had car 2 years from 80,000 miles

 

Is £580 inc vat and fitting bad? 

 

RAC fetching from TPS

 

Stuck in the middle of nowhere 

 

Car had "the fix" in 2017 at 70,000 miles

 

Hope the other 3 last

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 November, 20205 yr by lichfielddriver

Did you get any symptoms or just a spontaneous breakdown? What’s the “fix”?

3 hours ago, Oli said:

Did you get any symptoms or just a spontaneous breakdown? What’s the “fix”?

the "fix" is the VAG emissions update 

 

at 7am it started as normal but for 1 x 1 second "chug" then ran for an hour/60 miles

 

then the coil light came on, then the EML 

 

 

Edited 2 November, 20205 yr by lichfielddriver

Aren’t the VAG 1.6 tdi engines known to have issues, perhaps this is one of them?

22 hours ago, gav_is_con said:

Aren’t the VAG 1.6 tdi engines known to have issues, perhaps this is one of them?

144k and literally not a hiccup. Nothing. Remapped too. Touching all the wood I can as I say this...

On 02/11/2020 at 22:28, gav_is_con said:

Aren’t the VAG 1.6 tdi engines known to have issues, perhaps this is one of them?

We had for 4 Caddy's at work at one stage, 2x 63 plate and 2x 15 plates, all once over 100k have had at least 1 injector,  a 15 plate one had 2 within 3 months and glow plugs on all 4, the newer ones appeared to be more susceptible to the faults. 

None showed any signs beforehand, fine one day, duff the next