I require a little help or advice.

My 2000 registered Octavia TDi keeps telling me it is over heating! :confused: The thing is it happens within two minutes of starting from cold first thing in the morning then clears the fault within a further minute. This fault happens with the engine running or not (ignition on)! Any thoughts or advice

I require a little help or advice.

My 2000 registered Octavia TDi keeps telling me it is over heating! :confused: The thing is it happens within two minutes of starting from cold first thing in the morning then clears the fault within a further minute. This fault happens with the engine running or not (ignition on)! Any thoughts or advice

Sounds like a dodgy guage

Probably a dodgy sensor somewhere.

Intermittent faults like this are a pig to find and rectify - my 1.8T had (still has) a fault whereby the temperature gauge is slow to reach "normal" - it sometimes goes up part-way, then down, then back up, and so on. The car was with the dealers for a day while they tried to trace the fault, without success. Now I just ignore it.

My vrs octy has the same problem cold mornings comes on.leave the car running a minute switch it off then on again no warning took mine to skoda said it was the water below level.thats funny cos i looked at it and it was fine and still beeping just ignore it now. nothings happened car still running fine.