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Hopefully, (gulp!) this is my final post on this topic. After some more investigation, we've replaced the wheel bearing as well as the sensor. My mechanic spoke to his old boss who still works for Skoda, and immediate advice was to check the wheel bearing. The bearing had a crack in it which got worse the hotter it ran, and the ABS sensor then threw up all the errors. We've replaced both the bearing and the sensor and the car has been very well-behaved for the past two weeks now. So, if it happens to you and the error codes show up a failed ABS sensor, have the wheel bearing inspected at the same time, as it is likely to be the real culprit.

For anyone still following this saga, it's unfortunately not yet over. Two days after the car came back, I was heading North up the M6 when, you've guessed it, BING, BING, BONG....... Sigh. So I took it back into my garage this morning. They ran diagnostics and it seems to be the same sensor (Rear Left) as the cause. I'm taking it in again after the Easter holidays for more checks.

It was indeed a rear ABS sensor that was triggering all the alerts. Had it replaced this morning and all good so far. I have a good bit of driving coming up in the next few days, so time will tell.

For anyone interested, I went to a local VAG specialist this morning and they ran a diagnostic check. It's a rear ABS sensor that's causing the problem and I'm booking it in to be replaced. Will report back!

I'm wondering - could the state of the battery have anything to do with errors? I wasn't sure how to check the health of my battery, but I did notice that what looks to be an indicator on my battery is red and not green.

Sorry to hear that. Mine did it again this evening coming back home on the M4, so I'm going to book it in for a diagnostic check. Something isn't right if these 'errors' then disappear and the car returns to normal. Good luck with yours!

It was a dry day, maybe a bit of condensation but not much. Like you, I quite often get an error at the start of a journey which then clears up after a few minutes, but I've never had so many pop up at the same time.

Not a hybrid, just the 2.0TDI. And since my post, it has been behaving itself. (Until the next time...)

Exactly that! I think it just decided to have a bit of a temper tantrum, got over it and moved on.

I'm driving the car two days ago and about 10 minutes into my journey, the car starts pinging with a bunch of errors telling me that "features" are unavailable: Hill Start Assist ABS / Stability Control Side Assist and Rear Traffic Alert Lane Assist Front Assist Tyre Pressure Loss Indicator Electronic Parking Brake Headlight Range Control All slightly alarming - pardon the pun - so I pull over and switch off. Give it a few minutes and turn on, and the pinging recommences. The car is driving fine, and very fortunately, I am only a few minutes away from the actual dealer. So I pop in and ask them to come out and take a look. All the alerts flash up again, so I'm told that they can book it in for a diagnostic test, but the earliest they can do that is late April. Not ideal. So I phone round a couple of other Skoda dealers near to me, with similar results, late April being the best that can be done. So I say that I'll need to think about this, and in the meantime, is the car OK to drive, albeit with a lot of assistance features not working. I'm told that it will be fine as long as they're amber alerts and not red, so I decide I'm going to go home and think through my options. Several of which involve crushing this car or beating it with a large stick. My journey home is around 30 minutes and halfway there, on the motorway, I glance down at the dash and what do I see? Nothing. Not a single warning light. Everything seems to be as it should be. I get home and the front and rear park assists work perfectly. The parking brake functions as it should. And since then, not a peep, not a single light on the dash, nothing... I have been in and out of the car five or six times and nothing has made a single sound. So now I'm just confused? Do i still go ahead an book the car in for a diagnostic check which may tell me that nothing is wrong, or do I just put it down to some bizarre glitch in the matrix which has self-cured itself? Or is my car simply laughing at me every time I turn my back? Thoughts??

Does anyone know if the 12v cigarette socket in the boot stays on after the engine is turned off?

I've noticed that there is a delay of several seconds between pulling the stalk to clean the windscreen and any water actually coming out of the nozzles. Is this normal for the new Mk IV? I can hear the pump whirring away, but my wipers have dragged across glass a couple of times before I see any screenwash actually appear.