jennoskoda

Ok thankyou. I had a little look and people usually see a dashboard error

Eeek. No it wasn’t new and the person on the phone did a recall check.

Rang Skoda who then rang someone else and based on my description he thinks it’s the mechatronic unit? booked in for 2 days which starts with a scan but this is gonna cost a lot right 😳

In Macclesfield, I think Stockport is my nearest Skoda place. Thankyou all so much by the way. It’s been a real pain in the butt having a car that’s 90% perfect but might crap out and no one seems to know why! I’ll keep you posted if I get anywhere Oh and I don’t think so about the battery.

So just to confirm their scans can pick up a fault log (after it’s stopped faulting ) whereas the computer scan my local did only works while it’s acting up? If so I’ll get onto my nearest tomorrow!

Indeed my brakes are not broken 😂

Ah good question with regards the break lights, hadn’t checked that. I’ve had it scanned but it was at a local independent place and there was no faults but would a Skoda garage. E able to see a log?

Yep I’ve seen this warning before as I’ve set off. This is different. It’s also much more locked up than the handbrake does. It won’t budge and sort of dips the car down as if it’s wresting against something. I don’t think I’m doing anything wrong as we’ve had the car 3 years and it’s been ok. I’ve even been taking it extra slow recently to be nice to it 😂 doing everything slow and pausing long between engine on and then into drive. I’ve had it scanned at our normal garage and they couldn’t see anything because the fault wasn’t occurring at the time. But maybe a Skoda specialist place would see it ?

No I don’t think so, never had it release itself on me. It won’t budge at all then it releases some time later. Had the break shoes changed because we though they might be sticking and it’s not helped .

It’s like it’s in drive (on the stick - and the gears engage) but it’s in park (stuck parked).

Got 64 plate DSG 2.0 tDi. Its developed an intermittent fault where the car won’t budge like the breaks are locked on. So I can put the brake peddle down and turn the engine on fine (although i think it does feel slightly different - like the break won’t go down quite as far). Then when I can put the break down and select drive (again perhaps the break pedal feels a little different). However when you bring the break up to drive forward (or reverse - this happens in both), the car struggles against itself. Similar to if the hand break was on but much more so - I’ve set off with the hand break on before and got some distance before it lets me know. This is like that but extreme. you can just about get it moving if you also rev too. Sometimes it rights itself in a couple of hours, sometimes it’s the next day. This has happened a dozen times. The last 2 were a month apart. Every time we take it to our garage they can’t replicate the fault so the computer doesn’t show anything. The guy even came to our house once but by the time he was here it was ok. Even let them have it for a week and they kept moving it but it never faulted. So we now have a car we can’t fix because they don’t know the fault. Would a proper Skoda garage know this fault? Anyone any ideas? It’s currently worse than no car tbh because at any moment it might not start. Any ideas would be amazing. Or any ideas who else to ask. Otherwise the cars a gem