@Tishout

You have no need to purchase one if you owned one and VW Group paid a dealership to remove it and bin it, not even have them recycled. 

 

They are due you one free gratis fitted back on your car and they are getting them cheaper than that by a long way from whoever manufacture them if it is not a VW company. 

Edited 3 April, 20233 yr by toot

Guess we should get this one for free right? The ones who returned the old ones before..

I will try to get it😬

15 minutes ago, toot said:

@Tishout

You have no need to purchase one if you owned one and VW Group paid a dealership to remove it and bin it, not even have them recycled. 

 

They are due you one free gratis fitted back on your car and they are getting them cheaper than that by a long way from whoever manufacture them if it is not a VW company. 

Absolutely! That's what I'll do - add it to the list of things they need to do on my car!

I didn't say you need to buy it. I have just put the info here in case someone want's to buy it and don't want to wait for the new one to arrive (if it ever will). 

27 minutes ago, TheUltraRunner said:

I didn't say you need to buy it. I have just put the info here in case someone want's to buy it and don't want to wait for the new one to arrive (if it ever will). 

thanks, mate, appreciate it!

12 hours ago, Tishout said:

Not sure if I want to pay €117... 🙄

why would you, just wait till they get them in stock and you will get a free one. 

I would like to ask if newly produced cars got engine cover. I want to order vRS and i wonder if i get a cover.

Welcome.  There are new owners that have received cars with a cover recently.  That might be a location location location thing, which country or when the car left the factory.  There are covers though and being fitted to cars that VW group had to have removed.  Just let the seller know you expect your new car to have a new cover.  No reason why dealership should be sitting with demonstrators with engine covers while customers cars have not got one. 

7 hours ago, darios123 said:

I would like to ask if newly produced cars got engine cover. I want to order vRS and i wonder if i get a cover.

I've just swapped to a Kodiaq but still with a 2.0 tsi engine and that came with a cover. No reason a brand new vRS wouldn't.

I have a my23 rs and I have the engine cover. Have been checking sporadically to see if there's a recall but nothing to date

just wondering ... what's the difference between the original one affected by the safety recall and the one from the @TheUltraRunner post? material upgrade? design wise seems to be the same.

Could be also the fixing points were upgraded?

Maybe one of the new owners can make a few photos of the cover? From top and bottom.

 

10 hours ago, TheUltraRunner said:

Could be also the fixing points were upgraded?

Maybe one of the new owners can make a few photos of the cover? From top and bottom.

 

I tried to pull mine off but it wouldn't move. It kept flexing and I chickened out incase I damaged it.

@Hairy_Joe it is coming off when it is spark plug change time, and hopefully going back on and fastening with a thump. 

Just now, toot said:

@Hairy_Joe it is coming off when it is spark plug change time, and hopefully going back on and fastening with a thump. 

I hope so!

 

It's probably me being too careful!

17 minutes ago, Hairy_Joe said:

I tried to pull mine off but it wouldn't move. It kept flexing and I chickened out incase I damaged it.

If it doesn't go off easily, then fixing points were definitely upgraded. 😁 

Indeed, shouldn't be complicated to remove. Try to remove it with the engine hot, the material should be softer, you pull from the corners and you are done. My concern would be on the back side, close to the downpipe collar ... If it's the same shape, room on that area was tight ... Not touching surfaces but quite close.

On 11/04/2023 at 21:19, Hairy_Joe said:

I hope so!

 

It's probably me being too careful!

I figured it out where to pull it from....

 

I've the new one, part no ending in L and manufactured Feb 2023.

I've not got an engine cover on my new car, as I've just found out while having a new windscreen fitted to it. 🙄

9 minutes ago, TheWanderer said:

I've not got an engine cover on my new car, as I've just found out while having a new windscreen fitted to it. 🙄

Maybe you will feel better. I just got a new windscreen too. And already got the first small stone chip on the way home from the garage. And it seats just in front of my eyes. 🤐

Yep more or less dead centre in my line of vision above the steering wheel. About the size of my thumb nail. 👿

My Octavia vRS Combi delivered on 27th July 2023 doesn't have one. I've queried the dealer, he says he'll give me a call on Monday...

Like I said mine didn't come with one, heard nothing from the dealer about it being missing, nor having the car being recalled for one to be fitted. 

My September 22 Tsi VRS came with an engine cover 

5 hours ago, Wyatt64 said:

My September 22 Tsi VRS came with an engine cover 

Can you check the part number? Does it end with L?