Hi All,,

Got my 06 PD Octavia Vrs a couple of weeks ago now from a main dealer and overall ,,,apart from the fuel consumption,,I am very very happy with it.

Today, whilst sat in a service station i turned the car off for a while, then after 5 minutes i tried to start her, but would she start,,,,,nope !! Had six attempts, then waited five minutes and tried again and she fired up fine ,,,albeit belching a load of soot which i expected after all that fule had been pumped in,,,,,,,,

It is very cold up here in scotland,,dash was reading -7 at the time,,,,,is it down to this or should i worry ??

Edited 24 December, 200916 yr by kerms34

Sounds like it flooded, which it really shouldn't do. Worth taking it back to dealer for a code scan if it does it again.

First, its maybe just a one off. However, I've seen a number of posts on the forum with warm start issues.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/102282-20-tdi-warm-start-problem-unfixable/page__hl__warm%20start

Worth staying calm and see if it happens again though.

Anyone else up in scotland getting this problem whilst its arctic up here ???

I didn't think it was possible to flood a diesel

Did you immediately started the engine after the plug-glow- light went off?

And please make sure the steering wheel is not in a locked position (it took me several weeks to find out this was the reason why my car had starting problems. Arggghhhh.) A little bit of moving the steering wheel will get your car started.

Could it be an immobiliser problem?

Did you immediately started the engine after the plug-glow- light went off?

And please make sure the steering wheel is not in a locked position (it took me several weeks to find out this was the reason why my car had starting problems. Arggghhhh.) A little bit of moving the steering wheel will get your car started.

Whoa !! That could be it you know,,, could it really be that simple. I hope so. Car not moved for a couple of days now due to me not being legal to drive !! But will try this theory out tomorrow.

What car do you have 'Constant' ???

I have the Octavia Scout (2008 version). It took me weeks to find out what caused my ignation problem. It especially happened on uneven surfaces. I thought something was terribly wrong with my car (e.g. the alarm or immobiliser), but it was just me being new to the car .

Just went out to start car,, problem still there,,, really dissapointed with this

no problems starting the 2.0TDI Scout here, in -16 in the Highlands last night.

its been down to -8c here in the last couple of weeks, and when I have gone to start my 2.0PD TDi its always started first time in less than a second of turning the key. Same with warm and hot starts, never had a problem in really cold weather.

This is very interesting. I have had a VRS PD170 for about 18 months now and last Christmas it developed an odd issue of not wanting to start when cold (left over night usually did the trick). Dealer had it 2 or 3 times and could only re-create the problem once. They replaced temp sensors and other stuff, but then the winter warmed up and the problem went away. Now we are back into the winter again it has come back. Turn the key and it (most of the time), will start, but is really lumpy and bumpy and coughs for a few seconds before firing up. If you don't hold the key in the start position for a couple of seconds, it just conks out. Skoda have had it back again and believe it is a fuel problem and so have cleaned and swapped around all the injectors and certainly seem to have done some software upgrades (because various settings, eg the wing mirror movement suddenly changed back to defaults). Sadly though, it is still there. It sat still in a snowy car park for a week over Christmas and I needed to hold the key in start for about 4 or 5 seconds of it coughing before it would go.

Does anyone else have this? I have had a 140 PD engine before this and it didn't do it. I also have a 1.4 3 pot Fabia and after a week in the snow on the drive way it started instantly without the slightest complaint. I have got other Octavia owners to start it to prove it isn't just me doing something dumb and releasing the key too early, but again, no probs.

Any help gratefully received that I can pass on to Skoda. They are being good about it, but I want to get it sorted before the temp warms about and we can't demonstrate the problem at all

PSc

(Another thread discussed this problem exactly, so I have moved my post to: http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/147233-cold-starting-issues-ocvativ-vrs-pd/page__gopid__1845155entry1845155)

Edited 29 December, 200916 yr by Paul_Sc