Hi All

I have just collected my 06 TFSI vRS back from my local main dealer - they've had the car for 2 days to repair a fault. The repair was done under warranty with no quibble. I was just thinking how useful I would find it if there was a specific 'sticky' or area of this forum - a 'log' dedicated specifically to owners faults that have been repaired under warranty - that way, next time something goes wrong with (any of our) cars I/we could have a quick look to see whether anyone else has had the exact problem already, and see what the dealer did to repair it.

This is exactly what the 'invoice' I picked up with car this morning reads:

"Investigated vehicle for poor running & the Engine Warning light on. Carried out diagnostic checks & found the diaphram broken on breather valve on the front rocker cover. Replaced valve and test - all ok". The car does indeed appear fine now.

My car has 26k miles on it & I know many of your TFSI vRS's are only at 5/10/15k at the moment, but of the 150+ TFSI vRS drivers on here, I would be amazed if exactly the same fault didn't occur over next 6-12m for at least 1/2 dozen of you.

What do you think?

vRSFred

"The car does indeed appear fine now"

That would worry me greatly, the Wife says that a lot and I know when she does that everything is far from fine, just takes me a while to find out what the issue is.

Well, I'm overwhelmed by your lethargy/lack of replies re my idea, everyone. Glad all your cars all run faultlessly all of the time!

vRSFred

In answer to your original report it is a known issue (PCV failure I believe) and has been covered before and IS included in the 'sticky' section of the Octavia II forum.

As for the response to the lack of replies to this I can only speak from my point of view that it is physically not possible to reply to every single thread that gets posted on here, it's hard enough keeping up with the areas that interest me let alone everything else.

I hope you continue to use this forum as intended as it's the greatest rescource for information on modern Skoda vehicles anywhere in the world outside the VAG group itself.

I think the difficulty is that, like with the brake "mooing" fix that I had, it's never especially clear what work has actually been done. There are a few members on here who have access to information "from the inside", but I can imagine it'd be more than their jobs are worth to go and post such information in the public domain (not saying I'm ungrateful for the info you do provide, you know who you are - I just appreciate you can't tell us everything ) So the trouble I'd have would be my warranty log would read "Rear brakes were noisy at low speed and when reversing. Now they're not. Dealer appears to have fitted new cylinders / pistons, but as I'm not sure what was there before, they might just have cleaned the dirt off the old ones when fixing the fault..."

Don't get me wrong, seeing how a few mooing brake threads have appeared recently, it would certainly help reduce the number of duplicated threads. I just don't know how easy it would be to make it work. The other thing is that there's so much stuff on here already that unless someone were to trawl the entire forum, you'd end up having to do a search anyway until the sticky became populated with a significant number of warranty fixes.

Sorry to put a downer on your good idea...