Going to see a Fabia tomorrow. Seller says it has the engine management light on but the local garage scanned it and found no error. Is this possible? Is it down to the scanner the garage used? All advice gratefully received

Never heard that one before. Sounds like a load of b0ll0cks to me :wonder:

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell us right from wrong.

Engine light = error otherwise it would not be on. Cause can be anything really, and would need a proper scan. if you can find someone local with VCDS maybe they can pop along with you and scan the car.

I've got an Ebay cable and VCDS Lite so I was thinking of taking that to run a scan, just looking for some advance info. Hoping it's the EGR system needing a clean.

Yes, take it along and if anything shows up you can use it as a bargaining point on price.

I've had this on a Mitsubishi, light on and no fault, using OBD software. Reading the fault might depend on if you can scan it with manufacturer specific software. I've had the same with a Fabia PAS light using VCDS and no code found.

My car had an engine light and when scanning with a handheld scanner it showed no codes. Then had it scanned with vcds and it showed an emissions fault code.

my vrs had problem with ABS sensor, on dash it was engine managment light on....

i scan'd it over vag com, mes block for abs and deleted errors....

Generic code readers read generic codes only. For example I read the faults on a Fabia recently using my phone and the wifi obd2 interface as it was all I had to hand, low and behold I get home and VCDS it and find faults logged. It's all about having the right tool for the job and clearly the garage he went to didn't.