I did this yesterday. Half way through I wondered why the hell i'd bothered as I couldn't get the bottom bolt back in. After lots of swearing and being pretty much convinced I'd ******ed the thread, I managed to get it back in. I lined up the top hole by sliding a 6mm allen key through it, then used a ratchet with a 6mm allen bit fitted and just put loads of pressure on as I cranked it in. Once it had started it tightened easily enough, so I'm guessing it just had to work its way passed a slightly mushed bit of thread, as opposed to me tightening it cross-threaded. I'd dremelled the gasket out to around 11mm (didn't bother measuring it, but its slightly larger than a 10mm drill bit) and the stutter seems to be completely solved. It seems smoother to drive, particularly at low speeds in first gear. Not had the management light come on, so thats good too!

Your experience sounds familiar. I found you can make it easier to locate the bolts if you lever the egr pipe away from you. ie. You create a 5mm gap between the two surfaces. I just used a big screwdriver.

Yeah, that's what I did part way through, but with limited success due to the thread being a bit knackered. I just used a small electricians screwdriver to push on the thin overlap around the two flanges to separate them slightly. The problem I had with the bolt was that it would start to tighten, maybe 1/2 a turn, and would then pop undone again. In the end I just put loads of pressure on (difficult when you're trying to pull it towards you rather than push) and just drove it passed the popping section by force!

Just to add to the Vrs Fabia Stutter thing, I have today fitted the 9mm gasket as recommended by VrStu, although I have gone for a 10.5 mm hole (courtesy of a dremmel and a 10.5 mm drill bit). So far so good.

No stutter, no engine management lamp. Thanks to everyone who has contributed and made the resolution a 20 miute job costing under

Just to add to the Vrs Fabia Stutter thing, I have today fitted the 9mm gasket as recommended by VrStu, although I have gone for a 10.5 mm hole (courtesy of a dremmel and a 10.5 mm drill bit). So far so good.

No stutter, no engine management lamp. Thanks to everyone who has contributed and made the resolution a 20 miute job costing under

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Hi!

How come here in Finland the Skoda dealer doesn't recognise the part number for gasket to fix the BLT hesitation. They said that even Skoda factory doesn't know that. Should I then go and ask from Seat or Volkswagen?

Mine does it, only noticeable when the engine is warming up, once up to full temp it's fine. Asked the dealership to order me the 14.5mm one and fit it for free while they replace my broken foglamp.

Hi!

How come here in Finland the Skoda dealer doesn't recognise the part number for gasket to fix the BLT hesitation. They said that even Skoda factory doesn't know that. Should I then go and ask from Seat or Volkswagen?

Yes - I got mine from a VW dealer. Just quote the correct part number and they should be able to order it.

You can get a 'teng tools' pocket pack with the smallest ratchet i have ever seen, comes with torx, screwdriver, square, secutity torx and hex key bits (all up to about 6mm) for

Got mine back from the stealers after asking them to look at it. Seems much better but not totally fixed :(

Will have to get a 9mm gasket and drill it out a bit(not 14.5 though) and hopefully that will sort it!

Today I looked to the EGR and I'm bloody wonder how I'm going to get those bolts open?!?!?!? Just reached the other bolt with my hand and there is now way I can open it upside down! Any GOOD advice? Thanks!

Chris

Finland

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Took my 07 Se to the dealers the other day due to the 'stutter'. Printed the technical service bulletin and took that with me. They had it all day, when I went to collect it I was told that the bulletin from Skoda was unofficial and refused to change the gasket for me. Contacted Skoda UK, waiting for a response from them.

Took my 07 Se to the dealers the other day due to the 'stutter'. Printed the technical service bulletin and took that with me. They had it all day, when I went to collect it I was told that the bulletin from Skoda was unofficial and refused to change the gasket for me. Contacted Skoda UK, waiting for a response from them.

There bullsh1tting, get in touch with Skoda and complain

You can get a 'teng tools' pocket pack with the smallest ratchet i have ever seen, comes with torx, screwdriver, square, secutity torx and hex key bits (all up to about 6mm) for

I had the gasket changed under warranty 2 weeks ago. The stutter is still there, but only very occasionally and less pronounced than before.

Took my 07 Se to the dealers the other day due to the 'stutter'. Printed the technical service bulletin and took that with me. They had it all day, when I went to collect it I was told that the bulletin from Skoda was unofficial and refused to change the gasket for me. Contacted Skoda UK, waiting for a response from them.

Just buy a 9mm gasket and fit it yourself. The dealers can't/won't fix it properly anyway.

Hi all

Not posted for a while. I am one of the lucky ones and my 07 VRS only suffers from the "stutter" once in a blue moon so it never bothers me. However I have a very good relationship with my Skoda dealer in Aberdeen and was chatting to a tech at service time and the subject of the stuttering engines came up. Without batting an eyelid he said

"yeh common fault, theres an ecu softwear upgrade to sort that out"

As my car is mostly fine I am not going to have it tampered with but I thought you guys might be interested.

Just for your info my dealer has Skoda, Seat and Audi on the same site and also has a VW franchise elsewhere in Aberdeen so they have the VAG info coming in from all quaters.

Cheers

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Dragging up a bit of an old one here but needs must.

I've started noticing the stutter recently and tbh its pi**ing me off.

Anyway due for 30k service in about 2k so I'm going to mention it then and get them to do their 14.5mm fix and see how it goes, although by the sounds of it I wont be happy but as car in garage and its free might as well give it a blast.

My question is, on vrstu's diagram and pic, which part of the diagram is the arrow in the photo pointing to? The valve is by position 6, but the pic looks like its pointing to position 11. :-s

Also assuming I'm not happy after this and decide to go down the 9mm (+) route, if the dealers usually replace gasket in pos 6 can i replace easy access pos 11 as well or do I need to put pos 6 back to 25mm?

Hope that spiel makes sense.

Thanking y'all.

You would need to fit the gasket at position 11. If you look at the under bonnet photo that will make it a bit clearer.

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Fitted this gasket to my euro 4 pd100 that suffered from the stutter. I bought the 9mm one from vw then had to gradually increase the size of the hole until the light stayed off.

Settled on 11mm.

Stutter completely cured and no warning light on for a year.

Comparatively easy fix. Forget dealers. Just do this at a cost of

Mine's booked in for this next week as I'm getting the stutter a lot these days.

The dealer told me to stop reading briskoda when I showed him the tsb off fabia-vrs.com!!