I am in a bit of a dilemma! I bought a 57k mile 140 TDI 4x4 Yeti in November last year, and proceeded to do around another 6000 miles in it between then and March this year. We live rurally and travel a 60 mile a day round trip to work mainly on 40 - 60 mph A & B roads. Just before the Covid19 Lockdown we took the car on its first fast motorway journey, from NE Scotland to Glasgow c140 miles, mainly on 70 mph cruise. After about 2 hours on slowing to go round a roundabout the dreaded glowplug light came on flashing, the car lost power. We limped on to our destination (about 30 miles). I have a Carista - on plugging in - we had the EGR code. I erased the code, left the car overnight. The next day we returned North (140 miles) this time at around 60-65 and we had no problems. Since lockdown the car has only covered around 400 miles over the last 3 months - only on longer drives - eg 50 mile round trip for shopping, and again no faults.
My dilemma is that in August we have to travel to South Wales plus some touring on the way back - so likely to be around 1000+ miles mostly on motorway. I don't know whether to go to the £800+ expense of having the EGR changed on the off chance of an issue and wondered if its possible that the car had short journey low rev history and on a motorway blast, it allowed the EGR to move into positions it hadn't before or for the time and at higher temperatures, perhaps causing it to stick momentarily - flagging the error? When I drove it previously, I had always stuck as close as possible to the gear change indicator. Now I rev it more up to 2k revs and more and cruise on a-roads in 5th rather than 6th, to give the EGR and turbo some work. Its hard for me to replicate the motorway conditions for a "test" to see how it might react.
I use Millers Eco-Max on every fill, oil is changed regularly - I just changed it again for a top branded low ash oil a few weeks ago. The car has had "the fix" according to the Skoda website but I don't know when. The car was bought from Arnold Clark with a 2 month warranty - and sods law this happened after this expired, but if they looked now - there is no code logged anyway!
On another note - when I read the code the Haldex Pump error also showed - turns out that was duff as well - I bought the new pump, fluid and filter kits and did that - the old one was proper clogged even despite me insisting on a haldex "service" from Skoda before purchase! I also removed the inner wing liners and under trays and also sill covers to discover rust starting in a few places plus clods of earth and grit, that I treated with Hydrate 80 and Por15 - then Dynax s50. I would definitely recommend that the undertrays are removed every couple of years and emptied as the crud sits along the sill seam!!
Cheers
Alan
My dilemma is that in August we have to travel to South Wales plus some touring on the way back - so likely to be around 1000+ miles mostly on motorway. I don't know whether to go to the £800+ expense of having the EGR changed on the off chance of an issue and wondered if its possible that the car had short journey low rev history and on a motorway blast, it allowed the EGR to move into positions it hadn't before or for the time and at higher temperatures, perhaps causing it to stick momentarily - flagging the error? When I drove it previously, I had always stuck as close as possible to the gear change indicator. Now I rev it more up to 2k revs and more and cruise on a-roads in 5th rather than 6th, to give the EGR and turbo some work. Its hard for me to replicate the motorway conditions for a "test" to see how it might react.
I use Millers Eco-Max on every fill, oil is changed regularly - I just changed it again for a top branded low ash oil a few weeks ago. The car has had "the fix" according to the Skoda website but I don't know when. The car was bought from Arnold Clark with a 2 month warranty - and sods law this happened after this expired, but if they looked now - there is no code logged anyway!
On another note - when I read the code the Haldex Pump error also showed - turns out that was duff as well - I bought the new pump, fluid and filter kits and did that - the old one was proper clogged even despite me insisting on a haldex "service" from Skoda before purchase! I also removed the inner wing liners and under trays and also sill covers to discover rust starting in a few places plus clods of earth and grit, that I treated with Hydrate 80 and Por15 - then Dynax s50. I would definitely recommend that the undertrays are removed every couple of years and emptied as the crud sits along the sill seam!!
Cheers
Alan