2020 1.5 TSI EVO engine

[Bilty]

Hello.

I recently paid for a 2020 Seat Leon FR Black Edition, with a 1.5 TSI EVO engine. The car is manual, has done 48,000 miles, and has 2 owners. I'm due to collect it tomorrow, but I'm stressing now, as I discovered earlier on, that these engines are well known for the kangaroo/jerking issue, in low gears. I can't seem to find any answer if those engines, from that year can, or have suffered with that problem. I really need some answers quickly.

Thanks, Nick.

 

[nd-photo.nl]

I don't know that engine, but I assume that you made a couple of good testdrives before buying or...?

 

[Karollo]

The kangarooing still occurs. VW fixed the problem with software updates. Currently, this affliction has almost been eliminated, which does not mean completely. If you experience it in your car, ask your local dealer for an engine software update.

 

[Bilty]

The kangarooing still occurs. VW fixed the problem with software updates. Currently, this affliction has almost been eliminated, which does not mean completely. If you experience it in your car, ask your local dealer for an engine software update.

 

[Bilty]

Ok. Thanks for clarifying. It would probably coast quite a lot for an engine software update though? I did look into how I could get that done, but couldn't find anything.

 

[Karollo]

As for the cost, I have no idea. In my country such updates can be done at the dealer for free if it is widely known that there is a problem with the engine (1.5TSI EVO to be precise). My parents have a shopping trolley with such an engine (Audi Q3) and I did the updates at no cost earlier this year.
Ask the dealer at your place how they approach this.

 

[Bilty]

As for the cost, I have no idea. In my country such updates can be done at the dealer for free if it is widely known that there is a problem with the engine (1.5TSI EVO to be precise). My parents have a shopping trolley with such an engine (Audi Q3) and I did the updates at no cost earlier this year.
Ask the dealer at your place how they approach this.

Thanks again. I did phone the garage earlier on, where the car is, expressing my concerns and he did say that if I decided not to go for it, that a refund would be given back to me. So to be honest, I may just phone tomorrow morning, to inform that I no longer will be going for it. I think it's better to be safer than sorry, as I absolutely do not want to get a car, that has a problem, making it awful to drive.

 

[Tell]

Well it might have already been fixed. The engine is being installed across the whole Vag range. There were early issues. They are suppose to have got on top of it.

At the time of the Ateca launch they used up the old 1.4TSI engines on them and people were moaning and wanted the 1.5 which were going into VWs. 2016. Moans about the 1.5 then. Really been along time. You might have a car that escaped the remedial work or not. That's 3-4 years after the issue was found. It's probably hearsay evidence.

You need a test drive if you haven't had it to put your mind at rest.

 

[SuperV8]

They don't ALL do it - take a test drive, if it drives nice then great and enjoy.

 

[MJ]

Drove a 2020 Ateca 1.5 TSI manual today, it was smooth as silk

 

[Karollo]

As I wrote, even if the problem occurs in the car you bought, a software update solves the problem. Today, these engines should no longer be feared. The most important thing is to test drive and see how the car behaves in the first two gears on a cold engine.

 

[Tell]

The dealers service history which they access should have whether the update was put through. It's really those people that dont use dealers or dont have very good ones will have historic issues. The Formentors with the beeping roof emergency call alarm still turn up on the board from time to time since the owner at the time put up with with it whilst it needed to go in for a fix. New owner discovers a historic issue.