Hello everyone,

The car is SKODA OCTAVIA 3 FACELIFT  2019  - 2.0 tdi 150 ps. DSG 
The car has 55 000 miles.

Yesterday I did a full service and when I opened the fuel filter I saw that there was some junk at the bottрm, like small particles.
The old the filter itself looks perfectly clean. Here is a picture of it:



I immediately unscrewed the HPFP control valve and and I inspected it visually
Here are some pictures of the well and the strainer on the valve itself:







Everything looked perfectly clean except for one very small fragment that had stuck to the strainer:



Since the car is out of warranty I consulted with the Skoda dealer and they said that all other Skodas have such debris in the fuel system and much more. So they had such cars at 200,000 miles and they had no problem.
Here in Bulgaria the fuel is very low quality and there was often such garbage at the gas stations. My question is - is it possible that this fragment passed through the fuel filter and went to the valve strainer through the HFPF pump?
Otherwise the engine works absolutely perfectly and the nozzles are with normal adjustments

I wouldn't worry. There was a limit issue with sand in the engineblock casting not being blown out properly, but it shouldn't be a problem in the fuel filter area. Frankly the filter looks really clean to me. You will find lots of dirt and nastiness in a fuel filter (probably brought in by dirt in the fuel tank of whichever fuel station you filled up at). That's what the fuel filter is there for. Well done for catching some dirt in the High Pressure Fuel Pump and well done for cleaning it out.

 

Keep an eye on it, maybe do another fuel filter replacement in a couple of thousand miles or Kms if it really bothers you.

7 hours ago, varaderoguy said:

That's what the fuel filter is there for.

Agreed!