Jonathanlewiswright

I found simply pointing the car a decent sized hill was a sure fire method of making it happen.

Thanks for everyone's replies. Booked in with a Skoda specialist next week so I'll point them in the direction of this thread.

Hi, many thanks for your quick response. I knew Id forget the important stuff. Car is a diesel, has done approx 31k miles, of which I've done around 5k in the 15 months sinece I've had it. Ive been using my local garage but it seems to have had them stumped. Im stealing myself for the cost of taking it to a Skoda dealer

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could shed some light or even if they'd experienced the same problem. I have had a 2013 Octavia estate for just over a year. Recently it has developed rather a puzzling problem. After starting and driving, if I get onto a motorway or point it up a decent sized hill the temp gauge will start to creep past 90. If I continue driving it will quite quickly go into the red and the computer will beep and tell me to stop. If I stop the engine then within a few minutes the temp gauge will drop back to 90 and I can continue on with the journey and the gauge will remain static at 90. Even if I dont stop but simply back off the gas for 30 seconds or so the gauge returns to 90. Its been in and out of the garage a couple of times now. Auxiliary water pump changed as this had come up as a fault code and a new temperature sensor fitted. Neither has done anything to stop this happening. Ive done some searching of the forums and see that the vrs does seem to have a known issue with the water pump failing but that seemed to be due to actual overheating. Due to the speed in which the temp gauge returns to 90 this doesn't seem to be the issue. Does anyone have any ideas at all? Many thanks