Hi guys, 

Bought a mk3 Octavia last week as detailed on another thread, and it had an engine light come on straight away so it went back.
 

The dealer’s service depot is at a SEAT garage, but they say they don’t know what’s wrong with the car because SEAT and Skoda diagnostic codes are different and the equipment can’t read the codes, so it’s having to go back to Skoda themselves. 
 

Can anyone tell me if this is true or if the dealer is having me on?

thanks! 

The licences for the 9 VAG brands cost a fair bit of money brand, so yes a SEAT garage might not have the Skoda licence even active on their ODIS diagnostic platform.

 

They perhaps have another tool they could have scanned with like VCDS, but it's not a patch on the dealer tool.

@alessio92 Sorry to hear this.

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Is this the 1.6TDI you posted about?

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What age and how many miles on it?

 

EDIT.

So a 2013.   Likely / almost certainly had the Defeat Device Emissions fix. 

So might cost the SEAT Dealership some money to fix. 

 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/508648-coil-light-flashing...-possible-causes

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/508665-dpf-for-dummies

 

@alessio92

PS

Least of the issues.

But TPMS warning tend to come up leaving dealerships if tyres / pressures are changed an the TPMS not reset.

Often a warning of lax pre-sales prep. 

 

Edited 27 November, 20223 yr by toot

21 minutes ago, varooom said:

The licences for the 9 VAG brands cost a fair bit of money brand, so yes a SEAT garage might not have the Skoda licence even active on their ODIS diagnostic platform.

 

They perhaps have another tool they could have scanned with like VCDS, but it's not a patch on the dealer tool.

Okay, fair. I assumed, with the cars being the same parent company and much of the same Internals, that the codes would be the same.

 

13 minutes ago, toot said:

@alessio92 Sorry to hear this.

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Is this the 1.6TDI you posted about?

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What age and how many miles on it?

 

EDIT.

So a 2013.   Likely / almost certainly had the Defeat Device Emissions fix. 

So might cost the SEAT Dealership some money to fix. 

 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/508648-coil-light-flashing...-possible-causes

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/508665-dpf-for-dummies

 

Yep that’s it. I’m seriously considering rejecting the car to be honest. By the time I get it back I’ll have about 3-4 days at the most of the 28-day rejection period and I don’t feel like that’s long enough to evaluate whether it’s been properly fixed or not. 

Maybe best that you do. 

 

Is that all the Warranty you have?    Surely they gave 3 months. 

 

You have consumer rights and the car is currently not fit for purpose. 

Edited 27 November, 20223 yr by toot

8 minutes ago, toot said:

Maybe best that you do. 

 

Is that all the Warranty you have?    Surely they gave 3 months. 

 

You have consumer rights and the car is currently not fit for purpose. 

I have 6 months, but I was under the impression that I can only reject it in the first 28 days. 

11 minutes ago, alessio92 said:

Okay, fair. I assumed, with the cars being the same parent company and much of the same Internals, that the codes would be the same.

Underneath you are correct that the car parts are most definitely same and shared within the VAG group, sadly the coding isn't always the same for each part.

 

Then the software literally won't talk to the other brands by automatic VIN filter, they could input a manual VIN for a similar platform, but the software would soon complain.

 

 

Hopefully the advice by @tootwI'll help you sort out the car overall, let's hope it gets fixed by SEAT supplying garage at their expense, or you reject it if needs be.

They get to attempt to repair successfully.  

 

If they have bought in a bad one then tough luck and they have to suck it up.    Best reject now then. 

 

 

Edited 27 November, 20223 yr by toot