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well, It's been over a year since I asked about this and I should have got back to say that the issue was finally resolved. It took a fair bit of arguing with Skoda, but in the end they did the right thing. Thanks to Citygate Skoda in Watford. The root cause of the issue was the main engine management unit. It had some sort of intermittent fault which was why it was so hard to nail down. One thing, getting their AA service person to come out to investigate the issue during one of the investigation cycles was not a great help when all he did was to clear all the engine fault codes and thus remove the evidence and that meant more time having to drive a dangerous car! Anyway, if this issue happens to anyone else, perhaps you can suggest that they replace the engine management system to see if it helps.

I have a Kodiaq 1.4 TSI 7-seater auto, bought new in Dec 2017 and now on about 9000 miles. It went well for the first few months, but exhibited the odd mis-fire. This was mentioned when having its first service, but the dealer found nothing wrong.. SInce then the frequency and severity of the mis-fires has worsened. Most of the time it manifests as a bit of juddering that feels like you've just hit a rough bit of tarmac, but twice it has died completly, the worst one bieng the most recent where it cut out at 70MPH on a motorway. I had to coast across three lanes of trafic to get to the hard shoulder before I could put it in park, restart the engine, and move off again. Unfortunately, for the purposes of proving a fault, it doesn't always fail and not always in exacltly the same way. The previous incident had it lose power when accelerating out of a roundabout, "kangarooing" and stopping a few yards along. It did this three times before refusing to start for a good ten minutes, then it went into degraded mode and let me limp it the last few miles home. It's been in for invesitigaton twice in the past few weeks. In each case, despite being told there were numerous faults recorded in the system, no fault has been found and the dealer returned the car having only cleared the fault codes. Needless to say, I'm now not at all happy at the prospect of it stalling on a motorway and have lost almost all confidnece in the car. Has anyone else seen this happen? I'm also wondering if investing in an OBD reader would let me gather more data on the issue, possibly in real time, in order to try and find the root cause. However, I've searched various forums and can't find a deice that is listed as working with a Kodiaq. I'm also not in a position to be able to splash out hundreds on a system I would use only a few times, so looking at something for no morethan about a £100 - does such a device exist?