This may be a stupid question but is there any way i can determine what is wrong with my Octy without putting it into a garage. The EML came on today. I used to own a Subaru which had 2 plugs, one male, one female. When plugged together they flashed up fault codes on the dash. Do Skodas have anything like this. My car is completely standard.

Cheers.

To read and clear the fault codes you'd need a code reader like this

Vagproducts

(There are cheaper ones available IIRC you can get them for £30-50)

Or a copy of VAG-com with a cable would do the trick

Otherwise you are looking at £50-60 for a garage to read and clear the codes :thumbdwn:

Thats what im afraid of, its a lot of money just for a faultcode, then again i mebbe cant take the chance, cud be summat serious, eek.

A fault code reader or VAG-com will pay for itself in the long run, you can read the fault codes and do the work yourself, or at least take it to a garage and know whats wrong with it so you don't have to pay the garage to diagnose it... and you know they're not charging you to fix something that doesn't need fixing

My old Micra had a fault code system where you had to bridge a connector on the fusebox under the dash and then turn the ignition to 1st position, then the dash lights would flash in a sequence which you could look up to tell you what was wrong... much cheaper than fault code reading on the Skoda

P.s. loads cheap on fleabay:

VAG fault code reader, Cars, Parts Vehicles, Seat, Audi items at low prices on eBay.co.uk

Edited 25 November, 200817 yr by chicken_eyebrow

Just bought one off fleabay for much cheapness, thanks for the heads up.