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Fault code help - 17608 and 16795

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I have a 2001 Octavia 1.8T Elegance Auto which has just had it's 40K service completed by my local main dealer. The car has been running fine but the engine management light came on about a week ago so I asked the dealer to take a look. When I collected the car I was told that 2 codes had been recorded and reset, indicating problems with the Turbo but needed further investigation (2 - 3 hours at

EDIT:

I was incorect and found this on google:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1305015

The main gist of it seems to be that it's relateted to the dump valve (wastegate)

Somebody on here will be along to give you tell you what it means shorty i am sure.

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Thanks for the info so far - doesn't sound quite a terminal as the dealer was trying to make out.

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