Guys a friend is having hassle with his car. The car was just serviced a few weeks ago by his father in-law, he has a garage and used all genuine Skoda parts on it.

When on a journey down the country the car started jerking when he droped the car to 3rd to climb a hill. On his way back the engine light came on. He brought it into the garage where the plug lead was changed, the jerkyness stopped and the light was off but later that day it came back on again. There were not impressed that the car got serviced elsewhere and made a big deal about it.

Due to not being happy with the way the dealer reacted they brought it to a different dealer, this time no faults appeared even though the light had been on. The light was turned off anyway, they also must have put some kind of injector cleaner in, it better but still not cured, any ideas what might be wrong.

Should there be a fault on the system seeing the light was on ?

There was talk that there could be a proble with a coil pack, do they give trouble on 1.4

I don't think the 1.4 uses coilpacks - they're only on the 1.8T (in the Octy range, that is).

Not really sure on what the problem might be...was pretty sure the engine warning light would generate an ECU error message. :confused:

Rob.

1.4 16v's do suffer from oil related problems. Wear on the piston rings tends to lead to excessvie crankcase pressure. This forces oil up the breather system and into the throttle body. A certain amount is acceptable and is part of its design, but what happens is the oil collects in things like the manifold pressure sensor and will effect the lambda probes which get blocked with carbon (from the oil).

First step is to take the air cleaner off and see if there is a large amount of oil around the throttle body or in the air filter, then go from there.

1.4 16v's do suffer from oil related problems. Wear on the piston rings tends to lead to excessvie crankcase pressure. This forces oil up the breather system and into the throttle body. A certain amount is acceptable and is part of its design' date=' but what happens is the oil collects in things like the manifold pressure sensor and will effect the lambda probes which get blocked with carbon (from the oil).

First step is to take the air cleaner off and see if there is a large amount of oil around the throttle body or in the air filter, then go from there.[/quote']

Cheers Ross