That sucks , good luck with it!

Got the car back today, they said "the airbag light is sporadically lighting, drive it for a few days to see if it clears up on its own" (?)

It was delivered to Mrs T's workplace and they took the courtesy car away. She started it to come home and... it's making an appalling whining noise. So it's going back tomorrow...

Got the car back today, they said "the airbag light is sporadically lighting, drive it for a few days to see if it clears up on its own" (?)

It was delivered to Mrs T's workplace and they took the courtesy car away. She started it to come home and... it's making an appalling whining noise. So it's going back tomorrow...

Which bit of the SW are you in? If you're anywhere near A38 Trago Mills junction I'd recommend going to my mate so he can plug in his scanner to read the faults. Which dealer is this by the way?

Bristol. And it's Williams, the main Skoda dealer.

Can't really help you out with Brizzle.

Turns out it was this...

that I'm informed was part of the camchain tensioner that had broken away and lodged where the belt went round a pulley. A few more miles and the engine would have been toast.

It seems Skoda reduced the cambelt change interval from 60,000 miles to 4 years. Ours is 6 years old and done less than 30,000. It's rather poor that it should go at such a low mileage, and I'm not impressed that no-one told me about the cambelt mileage.

To Williams' credit they did the cambelt the same day and provided a courtesy car (Corsa - pile of poo) with no prior notice, knocked 10% off and are going to pursue this with Skoda on my behalf as quite frankly this and events mentioned upthread have put me off Skoda.

To be fair, the cambelt revised life span has been known about for several years, see the Sticky here, posted in 2003: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/maintenance-performance/

It's also popped up in several individual threads since then, BTW.

I'm surprised your dealer didn't advise you during annual service though, assuming it's usually been serviced by a Skoda garage. :thumbdwn:

Incidentally, I think it's 60,000 or 4 years whichever is the sooner. (Edit: On reflection, you did say that LOL.)

Perhaps be thankful that your engine isn't toast? (Ouch!)

Mo

It may have been known about for several years, but not by me. It's always been serviced at the correct intervals by a Skoda dealer, and nobody mentioned it until now.

I still feel I have grounds for complaint, either with Skoda for not contacting owners or the dealer for not advising me when servicing (presumably in 2004 as I got the car in 2000).

Why didn't your garage do the cambelt at 4 years old then? Surely if its in the service schedule , then they must change it at the required intervals? I definately would persue your complaint , I would be pretty p1ssed off if that happened to me.