Hey All,
New to Skoda Fabia's having just recently purchased a 2012 Fabia 1.2tsi with the 7sp dsg, alls been well with the nugget up until friday past where I pulled out my driveway got about 200 meters away from home then after a stop the thing seemed to have lost 3rd then scrambled to try find a gear before going into limp mode, flashing a spanner on the screen.
I did some research online and decided it may be wise to check the Mechatronics fluid levels and it was low, at 850mls , so I replaced the fluid for the full 1 liter, and the car seemed fine afterwards, up until this afternoon where the problem came back on the way back from work, again, only about 200 meters away from where I was, I was able to pull into a petrol station and switch the car off for a while and try again where it had no problems again getting home.
Now I have managed to use VCDS to get code's off the TCU ( luckily ) and I'm getting the following codes though they are not all that descriptive and I'm getting some mixed results on the codes interpretations:
p173c
p073a
p1862
p177f
p072b
These are all being listed as intermittent on the scanner.
when the car behaves it seems to drive perfectly with no slippage or shuddering
Ive seen some guys say that the accumulator can cause one of these faults, but they are usually accompanied with other faults it seems?? Anyone got any suggestions??