Coil Packs - Skoda Octavia - Easy to replace?

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Having some issues with the Octy vRS - on cold start she is rough as hell and definitely misfiring.
Even when warmed up car feels lumpy, is hunting at times and I can still feel a misfire.
Told that coil packs are quite a common fault on these cars (and with the VW, Seat, Audi versions).
Got a quote from a local indi - all in price based on the number I need:

1 - £64
2 - £119
3 - £169
4 - £210

I think I can buy the coilpacks for £35 each from ECP - so obviously cheaper to "do myself".
Cannot find a video online showing how they are done, wondered if anyone had done them and how difficult they are, special tools required etc?

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Easy peasy. Disconnect the connectors, two small bolts (I'd presume, for your engine) per coil, and about 5 minutes of your time.
 
OK, thanks for that. I'll check the error codes on the car and find out how many I need and then give it a try.
I guess the worst case situation is I end up paying someone to fit the parts I bought :)
 
Best off changing all 4 and you probably don't even need an allen key.

Also check Skoda won't do this for free (including the parts) under a recall.
 
Yeah they're easy to do.

And they're £93 for all four on Carparts4less with the discount code. ;)

EDIT: Or £20.50 each for Bosch ones on misterauto!
 
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I'll check with a main dealer - but I think the Skoda coil recall only covers vehicles up to around 2008, I think mine as a 2011 isn't covered.
£20.50 each isn't too bad really - worst case I end up taking my £82 worth of kit to a local garage and end up paying them to fit my parts for me.

I know you guys all say easy and they agreed over at Briskoda - would just love to find a video or photo to show exactly where the coils are located so I've got a starting point once I get under the bonnet.
 
Worth getting a code reader to find out what cylinder is miss firing and then swap the coil pack and the spark plug to different cylinders to see if the fault moves as injector failure is not uncommon on these and normally starts with a small missfire.
 
Thanks for the video.
I've been out to the car and I've used both Carista & Torque and there are no fault codes to be found - both current and historic are empty.
My car had a new inlet manifold fitted a number of months ago and I'm guessing all codes were cleared then.
Not sure how to proceed from here really - bite the bullet and replace all 4 coil packs and see how we go?
 
I was afraid you'd say that - not sure if Carista or Torque can give me that information.
I know that wherever I go I'm probably looking at £50+ for diagnostics before I start - which at the current price of the coils, I could buy two for that :)
But then they might make no difference.....
Cars.....
 
Probably worth posting up on an owners club forum for someone local with access to VCDS.

I know audi-sport.net has a VCDS user map which will let you find someone local whom you can pay in beer tokens.

Had you been in the vacinity I'd have happily offered up my ROSS-TECH HEX-CAN+USB cable.
 
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I was afraid you'd say that - not sure if Carista or Torque can give me that information.
I know that wherever I go I'm probably looking at £50+ for diagnostics before I start - which at the current price of the coils, I could buy two for that :)
But then they might make no difference.....
Cars.....
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You can get some o2 readings from torque but if you want to do any meaningful logging / testing its best to find vcds.

Edit - misread your post about changing the coils
 
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Just a quick update on this.
Had the car in for some diagnostics this morning.
No fault codes, however there was a high misfire count on cylinder 2.
Coil packs were moved around and a different sparkplug was tried, misfire remained on cylinder 2.
Next step from their point of view is start stripping down to check the injector - looking at £160 for the injector alone, then all their labour etc.

I had a new inlet manifold fitted by a main dealer less than 6 months ago. Garage that did diagnostics today said there maybe some mileage in getting in contact with them - there weren't any misfires before they replaced the inlet manifold, there are now.
Worth a shot?
 
The injector is unlikely to have been affected by the inlet manifold being removed. It is a common failure with cars from 2009-2012 advised by an Audi dealer it was due to a bad batch of injectors and running it on super market fuel doesn't help them either.

If you are keeping the car I would suggest changing all the injectors as most of the cost in labour is removing/fitting the inlet manifold, my sister's started with one and over the course of a year the other three went.

When the inlet manifold is off it would also be worth while cleaning the inlet valves as these get a carbon build up on them due to being a direct injection engine.
 
I do run the car on "supermarket fuel" but only ever the 99 RON stuff - have done since the day I got it.
4 injectors at a cost of £160 each - no way I can afford an £800 bill this side of Christmas.
Guess I'll have to suck it up for now and take another look in the new year.
 
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I do run the car on "supermarket fuel" but only ever the 99 RON stuff - have done since the day I got it.
4 injectors at a cost of £160 each - no way I can afford an £800 bill this side of Christmas.
Guess I'll have to suck it up for now and take another look in the new year.
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My sister ran it on Tesco super unleaded, the injector had visible deposits at 40k ish.

You could try running some injector cleaner through and also swapping to Shell super unleaded as it has cleaners in it. It cleared up the missfires on a cold start for a while.
 
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