Just to make others aware......

I needed to change one of the rear wheel bearings on the vrs. The car is out of warranty so my mechanic fitted a non-skoda replacement part. (Cost was about £50 instead of £80 from skoda) It was the right part for the car etc, however, the abs/speed sensor pick up was not correct.

Having one rear wheel sensor registering about 10% higher speed causes some "interesting" results..... the car would hold speed/revs and even increase speed to try to correct the speed difference between front and rear wheels! :eek:

The motor factors who supplied the part had 2 other alternative suppliers but in the end to save the hassle i just went for the skoda oem kit as the alternatives were closer to the skoda part price and i still wasn't sure they would work.

The cars back to normal now - just hope i don't need to replace too many more at £80 plus fitting.

Rich

Another reason not to bother with ESP!

My vrs doesn't have ESP only the standard ASR so was surprised it was able to do this.

My vrs doesn't have ESP only the standard ASR so was surprised it was able to do this.

Er, yeah... I was under the impression ASR just limited the power??? :rubchin:

You mean cut the power lol.

After a couple of recent things I've come to the conclusion it's better paying that little bit extra.

You mean cut the power lol.

After a couple of recent things I've come to the conclusion it's better paying that little bit extra.

Yeah, know what you mean - but at least ASR goes off when you press the button unlike ESP, which just gets turned down a bit...