i have an implausable/intermittent steering column apparantly:confused:

any ideas?? everything seems to be working ok

Eh?

That doesnt make a lot of sense. The column is just a bit of metal.

Need more info mate.

yeah that's what i was thinking too, maybe i mis-read it..

i'll try again and see what it comes up with

Hi TeflonTom

Sounds like it could be the cruise control fault to me if you have it that is

Craig.......

Does it have the power assisted steering sensor like the fabia/octy?

Does it have the power assisted steering sensor like the fabia/octy?

oh, erm yeah it is my fabia that was showing the fault, and it doesn't have cruise contol

could it possibly be the horn causing it?? the horn doesn't always work

Does it have the power assisted steering sensor like the fabia/octy?

Its a Fabia he is talking about.

"implausible" usually crops up when the ECU is getting a weird signal from a sensor. That's what led me to think it might be the steering angle sensor which the power steering uses.

Wasn't sure if it was the felicia being talked about.

the 'check' light hasn't come on and there are no other warning lights, it's strange because the 'fault' seems to have gone away now, but i remember it showing the same fault ages ago when stu reset my throttle body.

^^ yeah that was it i think, i don't have cruise control though

Your getting confused here. Thats for an Octavia II that has a steering column control unit. The Fabia doesn't have this control unit.

I have a skoda Octavia mk2  1.9 tdi   engine code bkc 2005        getting fault code p1696 powertrain data bus implausible message from steering column ecu   . car will not start any help would be much appreciated   this is my first time on here  also I used snap on solus pro to find this fault my car does have cruise control but has never worked