Hello there!

Back in september i placed an order for a Skoda Octavia vRS , the TDI model at a dealership in Romania (my country).

Initially, the sales representative from my local dealership told me that the manufacturing week was going to be week #49(dec 3rd - dec 7th).3 days ago i called up my sales rep to see if there would be any news about my car and he told me that the manufacturing week had been modified(from 49 to 51).

When asked why he told me that all the vRS tdi production has been moved to week 51 because the factory is trying to fix the DPF (something that i can't quite belive to be true).

it's been more than 3 months now since i placed the order.

do any of you who have a vRS TDI on order got a modified manufacturing week?

It is very possible as there are issues with the DPF so it may make sense that they disrupt production for this.

Would like to think they've fixed this considering I've just taken delivery of mine!!

Would like to think they've fixed this considering I've just taken delivery of mine!!

Don't put your wages on it. :eek:

:eek: Gulp!

Would be even nicer to think they were delaying it in preparation for the new VAG Common Rail TDI engine (fat chance).

do any of you have 49 or 50 as a manufacturing week for your vrs tdi?

It may just be a batch problem with DPF, like those lovely coil packs a few years ago on the 1.8t

it seems that the factory played a joke on me.

they delayed the manufacuring week because they can (at least this is what my local dealership told me)

i'm starting to hate skoda :(

it seems that the factory played a joke on me.

It is increadibly rare for single production problems in continuous manufacturing process (that doesn't however discount batch errors) as a pipeline of many thousand of orders are organised to optimise paintshop and production line efficiencies and "just in time" component deliveries.

As long as the original order was correct then its just waiting the 8 to 12 weeks until your specification rolls off the production line. (probably a few minutes after the previous vehicle and a few minutes before the next one!)

So if the problem is genuinly just you, it is more likely to be an issue with your dealer order, if not, then you are in the same boat as the rest of the "batch" and surely you want Skoda to fix the problem before they build any more and you get a 100% car (eventually)?