Hi All

         Just looking for your advice/experience/info on this subject ! A workmates son has just bought a  May 2008 VW Jetta TDi. She is fitted with a BXE 1.9 PD. The service history is complete with 151k miles. Once I heard BXE I cringed ... This is probably unfounded ! He was googling but you end up more confused as any stories are horror related ...!

 

My thinking on this subject is if the car has covered 151k miles she would have thrown the conrods long ago if she was bad. I also have a notion that the car is one of the last of the PD series as common rails and DPF's  were sold after this. Any vehicles I seen blow up in the past were 2 Caddy vans and a Golf Plus. Maybe she did blow up and was fixed but this would be in the service history and there is no mention. The car was imported here from the UK in 2013. 

 

The car has been bought and the lad is on cloud 9 but his dad isnt after finding out there is a BXE in her.... ! I told him that he should just not worry about it ! 

 

If anybody has any info or advice it would be greatly appreciated !!

 

Thanks in Advance 

Hi!

 

I own a Skoda Octavia MK2 1.9 TDI BXE same as yours, mine is a late 2006 build.

As far as I know, the dreaded conrod issue seems to affect mostly Volkswagans, Seats and Audis from production years of 2007-2008 however I heard that BLS can also throw rods.

 

I believe the best way to prevent it from happening is to use Fully Synthetic 5w40 engine oil and to change oil and filter every 5k miles (8000km)

I see on fourms that people use 5w30 oil and I believe that viscosity is too thin for BXE.

I also think driving style affects it too as 80% of engine wear happens when the engine hasn't reached operating temperature.

The BXE isn't built to be driven hard all the time. ASY PD130 is more of a tough engine that can handle such abuse because crankshaft is slightly different in design. BXE doesn't have piston cooling jets (I think) but ASY has.