Fuel Leak

Skoda Fabia

6 years old

30,000 miles on the clock

 

Started car and went about a mile home.

Really bad smell of petrol in the car. Warning light came on.

Petrol dripping from the engine onto the floor,

 

AA got my car to a local garage. They diagnosed a leak from injector 3. It was really hard to see where the petrol was coming from. 

 

Garage found a bolt on the injector rail had sheared and injector 3 was leaking petrol. 

 

Now need new injector seals and four new bolts. £216 fitted which sounds reasonable considering the work involved. 

 

They said it's the second car they have seen with this fault. 

 

Google shows I am not alone. Surely this has to be a product recall?

I know I was lucky I only went a mile with a bolt sheared off. If I had carried on driving more bolts could have sheared and more injectors started leaking. 

 

This has to be a potential fire hazard. 

 

Is it as some people have said a fault at the factory. Not tightening bolts to the correct torque?

Or a design fault. 

 

I am assuming with a decent repair job I should have no more issues in the future.

 

It's certainly destroyed all my confidence in Skoda as a brand. 

 

 

 

@rum4mo is your man to provide links to the several other threads detailing this alarming failure. Not restricted to Skoda brand, any others sharing this engine, I guess.

Fuel Leak! - Page 9 - Skoda Fabia Mk III - BRISKODA

 

 

Yes, here it is.

 

I'm sort of lucky as I feel/expect that my wife's late June/early July 2015 build VW Polo will have missed this factory issue - though I remain very very annoyed, plus a lot more, that VW Group have not recalled all possibly affected cars as they MUST be able to be "place" an engine factory build period over all possible 1.2TSI and 1.4TSI EA211 family of engines that could be affected, they know, or can easily find out where these engines ended up in wrt car VINs, and they know where these cars got sold into, ie which importer's sales territories - so apart from cost, why are they, as yet, not been seen to be doing anything about this possibly dangerous situation?

 

That is a question you should be asking of your supplying dealership if bought new or approved used, if you have bought this car from another source, you should be sending Skoda UK a recorded delivery letter asking this question and demanding compensation, and enlighten them to the fact that with this sort of failure, getting your car recovered to the nearest garage was always the smart move, these muppets will try to walk away from you as you did not drive it to a Skoda workshop - they are fools, who it seems are not employed by VW Group, but a 3rd party that provide a "gateway/barrier" between customer and car importer, and probably get paid by the volume of complaints they deflect from their customer, who in this case is Skoda UK - all VW Group brands will also be using this convenient way to ignore issues that UK government departments don't seem to picking up on right now.

 

Good Luck!

 

Edit:-  another link      1.2 TSI engine fuel leak | Page 3 | Volkswagen Forum

Edited 28 June, 20223 yr by rum4mo
Added another link to this issue.