2011 Ibiza 1.4 cupra

[Robbie1993]

Hi,

I have just bought a 2011 Ibiza Cupra with 33,000 miles, I have researched some of the horror stories associated with the 1.4 twin charged engine.

Can someone give me some advice on what engine parts to change as a precaution to avoid any problems that may occur I would appreciate it.

If someone could advise on what brand/where to purchase the parts from also that would be great.

I have plans to remap the car in the near future and want to make changes to hopefully make the engine more reliable before doing so.

Thank you.

 

[RUM4MO]

I think that your first job is to get hold of that car's full dealership history to find out what if anything has been done to that engine.

Second plan would have probably not bothered to trouble yourself with buying a car with that engine in it, if it was not reliable/resilient enough to be a longish term production item for VW Group, then why do you think it is worth gambling with?

Edit:- 33,000 miles for a maybe 7 years old small car is very low mileage, I'm guessing that it has already had quite a few issues that have kept it off the road for long periods while previous owners have argued with SEAT over who pays for getting it working again - but for how long.

Next Edit:- don't get me wrong here, if you have been seduced by these engines amazing performance then fair enough, but if you only wanted a small car with quite a bit of "go" to drive and enjoy without worrying about what its next problem will be, then you could/should have picked another Ibiza or an Ibiza with the next engine 1.8T maybe.

 

[Robbie1993]

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I think that your first job is to get hold of that car's full dealership history to find out what if anything has been done to that engine.

Second plan would have probably not bothered to trouble yourself with buying a car with that engine in it, if it was not reliable/resilient enough to be a longish term production item for VW Group, then why do you think it is worth gambling with?

Edit:- 33,000 miles for a maybe 7 years old small car is very low mileage, I'm guessing that it has already had quite a few issues that have kept it off the road for long periods while previous owners have argued with SEAT over who pays for getting it working again - but for how long.

Next Edit:- don't get me wrong here, if you have been seduced by these engines amazing performance then fair enough, but if you only wanted a small car with quite a bit of "go" to drive and enjoy without worrying about what its next problem will be, then you could/should have picked another Ibiza or an Ibiza with the next engine 1.8T maybe.

Hi RUM4MO,

thank you for the reply. Unfortunately I test drove the car and fell in love with the way it drove and bought if before doing the research (stupid I know).

Luckily I made sure I got a 2 year warranty when I bought the car for mechanical and electrical. There has been no aftermarket work done to the car it is standard and does have service history.

From what I have read so far I believe changing the spark plugs/injectors is a good start but correct me if I am wrong? I don't want to spend a fortune on trying to prevent problems as I that's what the warranty is there for.

Cheers.

 

[RUM4MO]

What I was suggesting was to find out all the corrective actions that have already been carried out on that car, ie by SEAT dealers, I think that there are a few different levels of "upgrade" work that was being carried out by SEAT dealers if and when the owner(s) found that they were having issues with the car's engine, I think that it is very important to establish all that now.

I have never ever owned a car with one of these engines so I can't help there as to what is available right now and what you should do to make that engine reliable/robust, but why I posted to your thread was that I and many others are sick to death of the way that VW Group carry on - many many issues with this engine, the 2008> 2.0TFSI engine and maybe even the similar to the 2.0TFSI engine - the 1.8TFSI engine, this is after the mess that they got into with the 2.0TDI engines.

Unfortunately, the next thing you might come up against is the paintwork, or at least how quickly blisters can form under the paintwork, VW Group really are lucky that they can get away with continuing to produce poor quality products fitted in some cases with grossly under tested engines - at this point maybe I should also include the first generation of 1.2TSI engines, really poor designs that had not been fully tested before placing them in the market place.

I own an Audi S4 but these cars were fitted with an "Audi only" engine so seem to be okay, my wife has a second generation 1.2TSI 110PS engine in her Polo and it seems to be okay so far other than rubber fuel line rubbing against a metal AC pipe, not clever and sorted out with later cars - but so far no retrospective action on earlier cars that will end up with chaffed fuel lines! Do they care, it seems not!

Edit:- maybe use the "search" function with a search term of "Lucifers guide to" to see what has been going on, that search seems to pull up a few associated threads on this engine.

Also, going forwards, always try to remember to raise new threads in the correct section of this forum - this section is really meant for "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" ie threads posted by Mods etc.