I'm switching jobs soon so will need a car to drive to work about 75 miles a day mostly motorway driving. 

 

I've found a good looking Skoda 2009 80 000 miles, 1.9 TDI SE with 1 owner but no history for £2250. The engine is the dreaded BXE (from MOT: the car has done roughly 6-8k miles a year) 

 

I've heard mixed opinions about the BXE engines failing. But on the other hand a lot of people say that the engines are fine and only a small percentage of all of them fail and when they do it's because of poor maintenance or driver error (like shifting into a 2nd instead of 4th causing the conrod to damage the engine). 

 

Any input on this would be great! 

 

 

 

This thread may help

 

 

I too always heard mixed stories of the BXE.

 

From what I could gather most of the BXE failures were a small batch that were mainly fitted to the Golf. I've heard of very few failures on the Octavia.

 

I too owned a BXE for a few years and did around 40k trouble free miles.