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well, after after my Octavia has just put a rod thru on its 2nd bxe engine I am throwing in the towel and going back to ford.
my last mondeo did me proud into its 200k's and I only went skoda cos everyone said how amazing they were.
I have no doubt that there will will be lots of u out there screaming at me and saying that you've had numerous skodas and they've all done 300k plus and im sure that to every bad 1 theres half a dozen good ones but I can only speak as I find and after a clutch and flywheel, a throttle body,a water pump, 2 engines and piles of turbo problems all within 80k, I give up and have to say that for me skoda has been the biggest nightmare of my life.
I should have listened to the people who wrote about the bad batch of bxe engines as it appears to be true as both engines have chucked a rod out on no 4 and both around 70/80k. I CANT HELP THINKING THAT SOMEONE MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT
and for those of u who are wondering, I never pushed the car and it was serviced religiously every 10k with genuine vw filters and genuine oil so that said, there wasn't much more I could have done. still, on the bright side , the tax man wont be seeing much from me having spent more on this wonder of german engineering than ive made.
happy motoring to all u skoda owners out there and pray u don't have the same problems as me and, BXE OWNERS BEWARE .
LONG LIVE THE MONDEO

and I thought the VAG range was indestructible

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Well I'm on my 4th Skoda 3 Octavia's and one superb and no horror story's to report

One lad round here lost an engine at 37,000 miles, Skoda didn't want to know even though they'd just serviced it.

I think most Fords win due to price and availability of parts, repair times and the vast knowledge base on things like talkford, also the better chances with DIY repairs

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Trade Parts Specialists which are owned by VW aren't bad for parts for Slodas and they're pretty cheap to.

if anyone with a Mk3 2.0ltr Tdci 130PS Mondeo gets a jammed VGT unit call me....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most