Morning all – let me introduce myself.

My name is Paul, I live in Cumbria and I am a motor dealer, specialising mainly in VW’s, Audi’s and Skoda’s.

Yesterday I picked up a 2001 Y plate Skoda Octavia 1.8T Laurin Klement. Car has 131,000 miles and has full service history up to 126,000.

Now when I picked the car up I noted the engine management light was on, upon starting the car there was absolutely no response when I accelerated and the idle speed hovers between 400rpm and 1000rpm and just ends up chugging to a stop.

I revved the car a little and got no response, no revs or anything – then I left my foot planted firmly on the accelerator and eventually it responded.

I then drive the car away and it was a little ‘chuggy’ but after a couple of miles all seemed fine – apart from the engine management light illuminating my sunny day!

Then I got to a road end, pulled up and waited for the traffic to clear and went to pull out and there was absolutely no response when I accelerated! Pumped the pedal a few times and finally it went.

On idle it sounds really rough and spluttery.

Now – my little girl is chronically ill and we need to take her to Newcastle RVI on a regular basis which is about 2 ½ hours away from me. I was planning on keeping the Skoda for ourselves but am obviously a little reluctant now.

Anyone any idea on what the problem may be?

Apologies for joining and instantly asking a question – you must think I am a cheeky so and so!

Thanks guys.

Paul

welcome to briskoda

cheers mate - hope to get my skoda problem sorted on here so as that we can keep the car and i can get it immaculate! I used to be a 'motor detailer' which is basically a valeter with OCD! I cannot bring myself to spend time claying, polishing, waxing and sealing this until i know it is mechanically spot on! I guess you could say i am a little shallow and naive that way!

Welcome from me too. Have you carried out a diagnostic scan to check for error codes?

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At a guess I would say the throttle is b*ggered, but as DGW has said you need to do a fault code scan first to check that.

I'm thinking throttle pot, idle stabilisation, MAF...

Basically, you need fault codes to at least narrow down which sensor it is!

Right fella's got it booked in tomorrow for full diagnostic - will update you tomorrow when i will most likely be a few £££'s lighter! Thanks so much for all of your responses so far - greatly appreciated. Sounds most likely to be the coil pack.

Hi Paul,

if you got 30 minutes whip off the throttle body & give it a clean with carb cleaner it's a very common cause of many problems on the Octy DON'T unplugged the sensor though.

you will need

Carb cleaner

cotton buds

A flat blade screw driver

& I think a 13mm spanner/socket

worth a try & will cost a fiver, give it a really good clean & don't worry about moving the plate inside to clean as long as you don't unplug the sensor it will set itself correctly

Right - dropped the car off this morning at a local diagnostic guy who i know well. I have just rang them and they have the car on the machine and he said the list of faults is like a shopping list. They are all having their bait at the moment so he is going to ring me back after that! Dreading this call!!!!:confused:

Chances are it will be one or two actual faults and the other fault codes will be as a result of those (e.g. running too lean fault code because of a hose leak fault). Either that or there are loads of old fault codes that haven't been cleared when the faults were fixed.

One or both of those; a single physical fault can easily throw 5 or 6 different codes.

If the guy's not sure, ask him for a soft copy, because we almost certainly can identify the base fault(s) from the resultant ones.

right - was in a meeting at work when the guy phoned so may have some of this wrong but here's what he told me:

The engine management light is on and throwing out the following:

Boost pressure control valve fault

Error ECT

102 lander

correction catalyst control

problem headlights left and right

fault on airbag

Now i may have missed the start of some of those above but this is what i scribbled down!

Also, as it wouldn't run for it's MOT then needed to put a temperature control sensor on it as it was registering minus 48 and it should have been registering the engine's normal operating temperature!

Will ask him for a full sheet showing the codes etc once i pick it up but it is still undergoing it's MOT!

Very worried!

:(

It would be useful to get the actual codes and descriptions from your mechanic.

The last two you list don't seem to be to do with the engine and hence the problems your having. Looks like there is a problem with CAT/Lambda sensor on the exhaust and possible the coolant temperature sensor (maybe what was replaced for the MOT), I thnk these two can cause running problems.

Lets see what your mechanic says when you pick the car up.

will update this later then if i manage to get all of the codes from him tonight! Thanks.

Sounds a bit similar to this thread:

http://briskoda.net/octavia-i/engine-wants-die-when-i-start-morning/147429/

well - garage just called back!

They have so far replaced the temp sensor which made it idle a lot better and they have replaced the ECT which has made it run superb (apparently)!

The engine management light is off but they are going to replace the boost pressure control valve at my request as this was throwing up a fault!

The Airbag fault is apparently related to the seats and they have fixed this for nothing.

Fot it's MOT it needs:

New front discs and pads - also needs new hubs!

Headlight adjustment.

New rear numberplate.

Centre centre of exhaust has an attachment (holder) has come away and needs welded back on (common fault apparently)!

All in all i am looking at a few hundred pounds methinks! The guy said about £400!

So - do I keep the car now i know everything is sorted or sell it?

I am a motor trader but really unsure what to do with this as the book prices fluctuate massively!

No comment on the rest ATM, but the centre bracket failure really is common. Rather than having it rewelded, fix with a Jubilee clip round each end of the bracket.

All sorted and sold on Ebay - was a real shame to sell it - pure luxury! Got a 01 plate VRS due next week - let's see what that brings! Thanks to all those of you that replied - much appreciated. Superb Forum!