yellowmehari

I have had my 2002 Octy vRS for approximately 12 months. I bought it at just over 18 moths old with 22,000 mile on the clock. I had changed jobs and no longer needed a car for work, so I bought a fun car that I wanted rather than a derv burning eco car. I used to cover approx 25,000 miles a year in previous cars with very light problems. But I have only covered a further 8,000 miles in my vRS, so it is less than 3 years old with only 30,000 miles. My question reliability - During the 8,000 miles I have covered with the car it has been into the dealers for a lot more work than I would have expected for a car of this age and mileage.
- New seat belt
- New autochanger
- New starter
- It has been back every month for the last six months about a noisy cold start up problem, still unresolved !!

I now feel that this is an unreliable car.

I loved the car for the first 5 months or so of ownership, but now it is a nightmare.

How have other people found the reliability of their vRS?
Should I stick at it to get this problem solved or throw the towel in and get shut?

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Ade3277

Hi,
I have the noise on start up in the mornings.
This I'm reliably informed is correct.
It's some fan blowing air into the exhaust I think.
I'm sure someone will say if it's not.
It lasts about 45secs to a minute.
I've had a new auto changer. Whatever disc i put in, it would come up with surface or mechanic.
It was worse on a cold day.
Again, this may not be true, but i was again told there is a heater inside it that gets rid of condensation, and this was playing up.

Cheers

Ade

yellowmehari

The cold start noise is not 'normal'. The car never made a noise for the first 5 months of ownership.

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2002 Octavia vRS Black Magic 180 horses of fun

TaviaRS

Mine was fine, well it was until it decided that it had one piston too many and chucked the one it considered to be spare out of the side of the block

Just trying to find my list of woes, brb..............

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TaviaRS

Got it:

My car had a very hard life! Of the 138k on the clock when I sold it at 32 month old, nearly 12k were track miles

So, what did I break?

2 x NSF wheel bearings
1 x NSF wishbone bush
1 x main cooling fan (led to overheating problems at the Ring as it had packed up)
1 x OSF wheel bearing
1 x engine @ 135k miles. The MAF had degraded

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Joel_vRS

i brought mine about 14 mths ago it was almost 3yrs old....it had done approx 48k i now has done over 60k and i have not had one problem with it.... it seems that the problems although annoying seem quite small compaired to what could go wrong...Ie Blown turbo etc...i say stick with it and like a fine wine with only get better with age...

Joel

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Mil

Dude, the car has 48,000kms on it. You can't expect it to be perfect. Yes, we are offered excellent facilities from the dealers, but the car is not perfect. When you talk reliability, you talk gearboxes & engine. I've had my starter replaced too, I'm not bummed about it. I have to replace my cd player too, but that's just a CD player. It's been a problem since I got the car but I never changed it coz I wasn't bothered. However, my warranty dies in about 8 months so I'm getting everything done to the car as possible by the dealer before that date.

You have a good car man...it's not brand new..it's getting old..

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SkodiRS

"Your" cold start noise isn't normal and still isn't.

However the majority of people have the a cold start noise....sounds a bit diesel-ish whilst VVT does it's job, which isn't the same as yours.

Mine has always made this noise from new and I suspect so have many others. Goes away after a few seconds.

It difificult to distinguish what sounds right and what doesn't....especially so on text based forum.

You've done the right thing and taken your car back to your dealer to sort.

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Adrian.

FTM

coming up to 20 months ownership for me..and the cars 3rd birthday...only problem was a failed coil pack which is not unique to this car but the engine in general

Wardie vRS

03 VRS 26k miles......New Engine.Car is at my local dealer as we speak.Been good so far, got me a hire car.Putting the claim through to Skoda tomorrow, fingers X they foot the bill

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why?

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Lummox

Looks like an exhaust valve has failed there. Seen this a few times on the 1.8t in general, Audi/VW/SEAT alike.

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Tom_vRS

Fingers crossed your car is standard!

Looks like a really poorly valve

How did effect driveability?

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Wardie vRS

Car is standard.

Driving normal 70-80 ish in 5th, then felt a Flutter, looked at the dash and saw the engine check light flash on and off etc.No real noise as such, no dramas. called skoda & drove to my dealership, which was about 15 miles away.

Service Manager at my local dealer thinks somthing has got into the engine.As you can see one of the valves has an hole in it? but doubt it would cause that much damage?? BTW the Turbo is in very good condition, so nothing could have been sucked into the engine that way. That just leaves the plugs... but the car was serviced at 18k some 8,000 mile ago? Not sure if they even checked the plugs then???

As long as I don't have to foot the bill, im not to worried

ColinD

All above stated weakness, except Jon's but thats a MAF, again a known issue...although not by ll it seemed.

In the two I've had and expect to have

Changer problem, sold car, occasionally fixed itself.

Cold start problems, came on about 40k or 2yrs, still here today 56k and three years. Akin to an older car and choke stuck out. Really must phatom out what it is...All I have done is get in, start engine...check my hair, put the radio on open the window and drive off slowly.

coils, well known.

Valves, yes a known issue on all...will replace one day

Seat belt, sort of rare, Fab16v had his fabia belt retainer go off on a very rare event.

Cold/noisy start...plenty of reports on this as I said, not sure anybody is getting to the root of why, but I know mike down the road is fed up of the car for this alone.

oh 56k 3 different maps since new and not an easy life and I think I picked up a log on the ecu the other night...forgot to change up oops.

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TaviaRS

Max rev exceeded, Warranty void?

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