andypandy14

The noise on braking must have been incredible!!

Thank you Brun. Skoda's must have very tasty cabling then!! In 25+ years of car ownership (others were non-skoda's), never had this happen before! Must be a bit of a shock seeing a decomposing mouse in a caliper! In terms of being sorted, the EPC light and "complete electric shut down" has happened twice now. First time (6 months ago) it restarted after a while, second time it didn't restart and we are told it was the cabling issue. I would rather not have this happen at all though on a <12 month old car. I don't think the "rodent nibbles" can be the cause of both failures 6 months apart can it? Hopefully I won't be revisiting this problem, but as I said, the reason for posting is so others who might have it can see they are not alone/what the outcome was. Happy Skodaring everyone!

Just to feed-back on what I was told. Apparently the cabling between the gearbox central console (Where the "mode" buttons and other functions are kept) and the Computer was installed too short / had "come away" somewhere "near the engine" and their hunch was ALSO that a small animal might have chewed through it. I must say, after 5 days of them having the car, I had gone beyond anger, so I just laughed at them. This sounded like the kind of excuse someone gives when they don't know what the hell happened and they have to give a reason as to why the computer shut down and won't allow the car to move. So, to remedy, they changed the battery and the cabling and I'm all fine since (200 miles driven). It took them 5 days with the car and " a whole day of diagnostics" to find this problem, so either Skoda really don't know and "switching it off and on again" and the replacement batter/cabling did the trick, or I am missing something here? We live in the city and granted, didn't drive at all much during lock-down, but I think that the "small animal" idea was ridiculous. Sure, bypass the bins and vegetation and climb into the recess of that particular Skoda Kodiaq and get right inside the gearbox to do some wire-chewing! Thoughts welcome on what it might have been. Finally, I am taking it to my host dealership for a "pre-1 year anniversary" warranty check as this is the second time the electrics / computer have failed me. Any ideas what they will say when I ask for that check? (i.e. I don;t want a "after 1 year anniversary" service to throw up problems that are conveniently not covered by 1 year warranty). Cheers

I've just had the same issue, Kodiaq 1.5 TSI Auto, 69 plate, from new, <12 months < 9k miles. Driving at 30 on a normal road. EPC light came on, at around the same time as ABS, tyre pressure, traction control all came on. Car went into limp mode, so I pulled in to check if I had a puncture or something fallen off and broken a sensor. Nothing amiss, but then the car won't restart. Skoda Assist came out and couldn't fix it, so its now off to the garage for assessment. This is the second time I've had this, the first time it happened (about 6 months ago),it wouldn't restart, but then when skoda assist came out and it just started up fine! I felt like an idiot, especially when the mechanic ran the diagnostic and found "absolutely no record of any failure" - but when a car cuts out and won't restart things aint right are they!?? This time, as it won't start, even for the mechanic, its in the garage now.... Skoda assist really good, but this is not what I want when I buy a car from new. I had a Hyundai Santa Fe before, which worked perfectly for 3 years. Had a Jeep GRand Cherokee before that, I dare say that is still driving well 100k miles and more... Had electric problems with a Renault LAguna - but that was once and the car was 8 years old. Posting this as I always take comfort in others having the same problem... I will endeavour to report back when I get the results from garage.