My Skoda Octavia MK3 got caught on fire last week. Lucky we are all safe and sound. I have seen two other MK3 shared on this forum, looked very similar to my vehicle. 

Fire started suddenly after driver dropped his customer and car did not give any indication on the screen, no engine management light on and it was always serviced on time. 

Did anyone else experience this??

Welcome to the forum but sorry it is under these circumstances.

 

As you say there have been others.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/457559-octavia-diesel-vrs-thermal-incident

 

 

Hello toot thank you very much for your comment. I have been reading the forum last five year but never been registered. After the fire I have decided to register and post my first topic.

Petrol or diesel?

 

Did the Fire Brigade cut away the plastic to get to the battery terminal or did the fire make the hole in the cover? If the latter then it was an electrical short circuit and I would then deduce a petrol engine (ignition unfused only protected by a thermal link), otherwise it looks like the fire may have started behind the engine, turbocharger perhaps?

 

Had any work been done in the engine bay recently?

It's 1.6 diesel engine. Yes , fire brigade cut open engine bay and they have been cutting some cables for safety. Car has been oil serviced approximately 4 months ago other than that no other work has been done.

Sorry to hear, glad all passengers were safe.

 

i think all the fires reported on here have been diesel engines. 

It's very very hard to make Diesel combust, it will burn if you add it to an established fire but otherwise you have to vaporise it before exposing it to an ignition source.

 

VAG must have tried really hard to make self combusting diesel vehicles, as hard as they tried with the dieselgate cheating.

 

I nearly wrote self composting, I must have been thinking of Ford, British Leyland, Fiat, Lancia etc!

Please can you give us all an update on what was the final verdict on this sad event, we all need to be aware of the cause was in order to try to prevent a similar event from happening again to our cars.

@incem hasn't visited the forum since the day he posted this thread, so not sure they'll be along to update, but you never know.  If so , knowing what year the car was might be useful, please. 67-plate? Think that's what the registration plate says, now that I look?

 

I wonder if this started at/near the DPF pressure sensor? Seen a few reports of burnt out ones of those on here.

Early versions had gas piped from both before and after the DPF, later ones omitted the post-DPF connection, leaving it open to atmosphere in the engine bay. 

Perhaps the combination of an active regen and a pipe taking gases from just after that 'chimney fire' back towards plastic-housed components...?

Edited 22 August, 20232 yr by Breezy_Pete
found year, I think