VAG 1.4TSI 150BHP is it high mileage reliable?

I have a Skoda Octavia 1.4TSI (150 SEL) estate on a PCP (0%) which comes to an end in a couple of months, it has 40K on the clock on a 65 plate. Most of it’s mileage has been done on motorways commuting 80 miles each journey (160 mile round trips).
The car is perfect for me – reliable so far, great on fuel and carries bikes with ease etc.

So, should I buy it? It’s going to cost me £8K (well below it’s market value) and will need to last me for another 6+ years or until petrol engines are no more. Just concerned about a relatively small engine in a largish car and potentially needing to be reliable for another 80K miles.

I don’t have a lot of money to spare and a poor retirement not too far away, so realistically a new car is not on the agenda.

In short, does anyone here have experience of high mileage VAG 1.4TSI 150 engines, that may help me decide?

Thanks in advance!

No advice on tne engine. Just sharing my last pcp thoughts. When my last pcp ended i thought about buying the car (with bank loan over 3yrs). By the time i factored in higher loan rates, service costs and new tyres etc a new pcp with free servicing and 0% was £30 a month cheaper so i started the pcp treadmill again.

Andy, I will save £160 a month over a new one if I finance the balance – I got a great deal when I got the car (0% and £4.5K off list price).

I dont think the engines are old enough to draw any credible long term reliability facts. I saw one for sale with 70k miles for 11k, you would have thought the reliability should be better than the early 1.4 tsi’s, is yours a manual? (more reliable) Does it use oil? if not I would be buying it and servicing it properly.

Yes, it’s a manual and does not use oil 👍

And it’s the turbo charged, not the dual charged (turbo and superchargers) version? Should be ok. Watch for plugs, water pumps and timing gear.

Pretty sure it’s not got a supercharger 🤔

£120k miles isn’t what many would consider high mileage, unless you neglect servicing.

I had an Ibiza with the dual charger system. Was brilliant for the first year, then started going through oil like it was going out of fashion, as well as 2 water pump / super charger clutch assemblies in 8 months. Not sure if they were symptoms of the mileage creeping up but I wouldn’t get the same engine again without warranty!

150bhp is turbocharged it’s the 180bhp polo gti(2011>2014) Ibiza/fabia too that had turbo and supercharger.

The two dual charged 1.4 engines used in the fabia VRS were very rickety and ate all sorts. My mum recently picked up a 20k yeti l&k with your engine. We didn’t find anything untoward having searched all the forums. From other experience with VWG engines they all eat a bit of water, generally this disappears from the water pump bearings. Whatever they do with timing gear seems wrong (mad intervals with belts, chain tensioners that go awol). Being turbocharged it’ll be sensitive to having the wrong plugs. Don’t let anyone fob you off with “oh but these are the equivalents/higher temperature/faster sparking ones sir”. Use exactly what skoda say. Also don’t depend on the manual for oil grade. Phone skoda and ask what they recommend at that mileage, at that time. They constantly get feed-back from metallurgy and as a result the recommended spec for my tsi kodiaq has changed significantly in 18 months.

If you keep it change the oil twice as often as they recommend, this is good advice for any car but turbo engines especially so.
I don’t trust long oil change intervals on newer cars, changing oil often is one of the best things you can do for a car.
Just doing the basics properly and a bit more often (so correct oil, plugs correctly gapped etc) can make engines last a long long time.

I’m going to qualify this by saying I may have been supper unlucky but having bought a Passat TDI estate (which I’m sure will be sharing some parts etc with the Octy) with 45k on the clock a couple of years ago.

The car hasn’t done 90k yet but has had a (to me) surprising amount of unscheduled non engine maintenance.