Spoke to a car dealer who told me Skoda assembled 1.6 diesel engines have a 20% failure rate

 

And its a known problem

 

 

I do not believe that figure for even one second.

The Car Dealer should put that in writing and their name, address and source of that information on 1.6 TDI's because it is fiction.

There is the issue that could have had an affect on the Euro 5 ones that VW applied the fix to. .

 

The figure of 20% is a figure that might well apply to 1.4 TSI 132-136 kw Euro 5 CAVE Twinchargers from 2009-2012.  Including replacement engines that also failed.

2012-2014 they changed them to CTHE which had a lower failure rate. 

Was the 1.6 dropped for the Octavia Mk4?

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Škoda_Octavia#Engines_2

Edited 20 February, 20224 yr by lichfielddriver

no 1.6 now.....

It was replaced with a lower powered 2.0TDI from memory. 
 

Whats your thought process here? Be less cryptic. 

The 1.6 TDI got SCR so Adblue and was available in models like the Kamiq / Scala & i think the Karoq then discontinued. 

In the UK, Skoda and VW no longer offer 1.6Tdi in any model, its probably true of Audi and Seat too.

 

Therefore we can infer that the 1.6Tdi is dead and buried as far the UK is concerned.

 

On 18/02/2022 at 10:27, lichfielddriver said:

Spoke to a car dealer who told me Skoda assembled 1.6 diesel engines have a 20% failure rate

 

And its a known problem

 

 

Do you believe that Skoda would assemble their own engines, engines that are common to the whole VAG range of vehicles?

 

Perhaps by hand by the guy who tightens the water pump screws in the wrong order on every 5th engine.

From 2020.

https://www.skoda.co.uk/news/details/production-milestone-reached-in-mlada-boleslav

 

 

 

 

Edited 20 February, 20224 yr by roottoot

2 hours ago, xman said:

In the UK, Skoda and VW no longer offer 1.6Tdi in any model, its probably true of Audi and Seat too.

 

Therefore we can infer that the 1.6Tdi is dead and buried as far the UK is concerned.

 

 

 

My 40,000 mile 1.6 is in bits, and i mean in a skip

 

2 hours ago, SC03OTT said:

It was replaced with a lower powered 2.0TDI from memory. 
 

Whats your thought process here? Be less cryptic. 

 

 

 

Ive seen mine.................. it spread it guts all over the floor 2 weeks ago having done 40,000 miles

 

 

 

A New Base Engine (Refurbished in a VW Factory) then from VW Group or from Ebay.

Or the lottery of a Used one from whoever.

 

Or accept the good offer you had for the car as is.  

1 hour ago, roottoot said:

A New Base Engine (Refurbished in a VW Factory) then from VW Group or from Ebay.

Or the lottery of a Used one from whoever.

 

Or accept the good offer you had for the car as is.  

Not had an offer for the car except the £13,500 from Cazoo 4 weeks ago... 

I saw a vehicle being delivered to the new owner offloaded from their signwritten box van, it looked exactly like on the advert.

 

Surely they are not allowed to do that! 🤣

 

Perhaps I was dreaming!

The same vehicle collect vehicles from people, but not with a duff engine in bits that can not be driven onto the vehicle.

I was offered almost £10,000 for it as it is, as a non runner

Bite their hand off.

5 minutes ago, J.R. said:

Bite their hand off.

 

Waiting 

Good luck.

On 21/02/2022 at 13:25, J.R. said:

Good luck.

Whats that? 

Buy the clothes peg the next time that old lady offers you them. 

To quote sea sick steve... 

 

"if it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all" 

On 23/02/2022 at 13:11, roottoot said:

Buy the clothes peg the next time that old lady offers you them. 

 

while you tarmac my drive?