MikeStoner

Took it to my local independent Skoda specialist garage. They found that the linkage arm between the turbo actuator and the turbo had seized due to corrosion, so cleaned it up and refitted it. This seems to have resolved the issue (fingers crossed). Total bill was 3 hours labour.

No they didn't. At the time I didn't have the odb details, so the fault was vague and they just quoted 1 hour.

'18 1.0 TSI estate 27k miles Got a yellow EPC warning two nights together with start-stop error (disappears on disabling start-stop), and a few minutes later the yellow emission warning light. Contacted my dealer who said "that will be £120 for us to take a look and our next appointment is in a months time". Subsequently paid a well-known national chain of tire battery and exhaust changers to get the fault code read. Didn't get any sort of printout or picture of the codes for my £25, just the description "turbo actuator fault". (I would hope it's possible to "get better" service elsewhere....). They did at least test the battery for me and said it was fine. When driving home I could feel that there was no turbo boost whatsoever and the car was sluggish, but it would get up to 70 on the motorway and wasn't misfiring, and having driven fairly fast on the motorway and back the emissions light wasn't coming on 1) Has anyone else has this issue with a 1.0 TSI? How painful is it likely to be? 2) If the turbo is disabled in the ECU is any damage likely to result from driving for a month while waiting for the dealer?