Hi everyone!

 

I was recently involved in an accident and unfortunately my old trusty 2005 1.9tdi Octavia was written off and I'm now in the market for a new car. However I'm a little unsure as to what to go for.

 

I'm a carpenter by trade and I use my car for work purposes carrying my tools and some materials. Im planning on getting another Octavia and I've been looking at 2010 - 2013 1.6TDI models in order to get the cheaper £35 road tax instead of the £190 I was paying for my older Octavia. However after doing some research it's seems the 1.6tdi engine has very mixed reviews, a lot of complaints regarding egr and dpf problems and mediocre mpg numbers. My old 1.9tdi was great and had very few problems with it so I'm unsure whether to get another one of those instead and pay the extra vehicle tax.

 

Any one got experience of the 2010-2013 1.6tdi? Are they reliable or are they plagued with problems and not worth the savings in tax?

 

Or am I better sticking to something like a 2009 1.9tdi before the dpf regulations? Those engines seem pretty bomb proof.

 

I generally do around 10k miles a year, mainly 15-20 mile commute to work along a mix of urban/motorway driving and then on weekends when weather permits I'll use it for 100+ mile journeys on motorway to go hiking in the lake district. I have considered getting a petrol however the tax on the models I have looked at all seem £200+ which is even more than I was paying previously. 

 

Thanks for taking the time to read my post and any advice would be greatly appreciated!

As long as you get something common rail rather than the rough patch where they started fitting DPF's to the PD engines you will be fine with the DPF. If this takes you out of your budget then stick with the old pre-DPF stuff although finding a good one must be getting quite hard now.

 

IIRC they starting bringng the DPF in around 2007 so if you do go older just check for sure that it doesn't have a DPF

Edited 25 November, 20241 yr by SuperbTWM

The 1.6 engine did have some injector issues. Perhaps stick with the 1.9 latest you can get is around 2009 I believe. Or a 2lt CR. However with 1.9 you have no DPF or EGR complexity with cooler etc to worry about, simpler on PD  

Or grab a 1.4tsi petrol and avoid all those stinky diesel issues and get similar economy, albeit at slightly higher road tax. Small price to pay.

6 hours ago, Me-109 said:

Or grab a 1.4tsi petrol and avoid all those stinky diesel issues and get similar economy, albeit at slightly higher road tax. Small price to pay.

It’s the cam chain that worried me on these, we had a 2008 1.4 122hp Golf and it rattled on startup, always wondered if there was a problem brewing. It got wrote off at low miles so I never knew. 

& with Euro 5 1.6 TDI CR VW Group still had not done much to give owners trust with the Cam Belts and tensioners or water pumps.

They also introduced the defeat devices and then had to do the Voluntary Recalls and have engine management updates and a flow device fitted where owners agreed to or even where they did not.  That added an extra worry as to how the engine would last or behave.

http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-campaigns

 

 

 

Edited 26 November, 20241 yr by Ootohere