Started the car just now, and it wouldnt idle very well, was chugging and sounded like it was going to die, even when I took it up to 1500-2000 revs, I thought it was just the cold, but upon pulling off, at the end of the road I caxed myself, the brakes wouldnt work! :( Luckily I wasnt going too fast and had plenty of time to force the brake (very slowly it was very stiff). Managed to limp it home..

Any ideas? no warning lights, nothing. Was on the way to a hospital appointment too :(

Car was fine yesterday too:confused:

Any help????

Sounds like a vacuum hose has popped off or split/perished. Check the one from the brake servo first.

What he said...

Vacuum pump or pipe

I'm guessing you are out of warranty and therefore Skoda assist so in the absence of that I would suggest a browse through the VAG-COM owners register and see if you can track down a helpful soul in your local area.

Spoke to Skoda Dealer as should have 3 years left on the octy, they said to contact skoda assitance.

And its nothing to do with the electrics??

I would think that would only be in the case of a newer car. New cars come with 3 years/60k miles warranty and Assist, you are saying yours is a 55 plate which puts you out of contention unless you have a used approved car which may have had 1 year warranty included.

yes, but was told its a 3 year extended. Skoda assist are on their way anyway lol. Ill find out soon enough

it was about 3 days past the warranty

Cool, keep us posted then.

It was the vacum hose joint, some small grommet type thing. It had popped off, 5 second job and all was well again. The tech didnt know what would cause it to just come off, not unheard of, just uncommon.

The tech said that the car would have registered a too rich mix of air and flagged it up in a couple of minutes, but still, anything to do with loss of brakes or steering should be flagged as soon as the car runs a diagnotic on itself surely, not just relying on the lambda sensor when it bothers to run comparison checks?

My worry being that the brakes had gone completely with no warning light, I was 50 seconds from being on a motorway and if I was going 5-10mph faster I wouldnt have made the turn :S bad juju

btw. Anyone else who gets the same/similar problem, he also said the erratic idling could be the start of one of the ignition coils going. A common problem apparently, he said that they were told by Audi to replace all four coils if one failed in the TT at Audis expense (probably why they didnt do it for all the cars with these engines, just the TT's)

Anyway, thanks for the info

If it happens again down shift fast and use the handbrake

I don't think you'd be without any brakes just the servo assistance meaning you need to press harder on the pedal.

Glad you got it sorted, if you want a bit of re-assurance you can drop it in to us and we'll check it over for you.

(Dave,Mitchells Service - spoke to you earlier)