i got back from working in south africa on saturday, to find my car completely unresponsive to the remote

problem... completely dead battery.

pushed the car out of the space to get another car in close enough to jump start it and then realised the next problem. the front left suspension has collapsed. closer examination revealed a sheared coil spring.

i got it to a tanvic and had it repaired. i've just got it back and now i have ABS and TC warning lights on constantly (i assume orange triangle with exclamation mark is TC?) and theres a funny sorta chirpy noise coming from the engine bay

those three things were not present when i gave the car to tanvic. now, i assume the warning lights to be 1 of 3 things:

1. they just need a reset after the battery was changed

2. tanvic forgot to reconnect something

3. there is an electrical fault - perhaps due to water ingress

3 might have some merit. something drained the cars battery, and when i dropped the car off at tanvic, when i shut the drivers door the maxi-dot on my dashboard remained on, telling me the door was still open. i was unsure what to make of this since the battery really didnt have enough juice to even show the dashboard properly so put it down to the on board computer being confused by flaky voltage signals.

as for the noise coming from the engine bay. i have no idea.

so what do you guys think the problem might be? should i take it to a proper skoda/vag specialist?

Edited 2 November, 201015 yr by Otispunkmeyer

i got back from working in south africa on saturday, to find my car completely unresponsive to the remote

problem... completely dead battery.

pushed the car out of the space to get another car in close enough to jump start it and then realised the next problem. the front left suspension has collapsed. closer examination revealed a sheared coil spring.

i got it to a tanvic and had it repaired. i've just got it back and now i have ABS and TC warning lights on constantly (i assume orange triangle with exclamation mark is TC?) and theres a funny sorta chirpy noise coming from the engine bay

those three things were not present when i gave the car to tanvic. now, i assume the warning lights to be 1 of 3 things:

1. they just need a reset after the battery was changed

2. tanvic forgot to reconnect something

3. there is an electrical fault - perhaps due to water ingress

3 might have some merit. something drained the cars battery, and when i dropped the car off at tanvic, when i shut the drivers door the maxi-dot on my dashboard remained on, telling me the door was still open. i was unsure what to make of this since the battery really didnt have enough juice to even show the dashboard properly so put it down to the on board computer being confused by flaky voltage signals.

as for the noise coming from the engine bay. i have no idea.

so what do you guys think the problem might be? should i take it to a proper skoda/vag specialist?

He ain't put the abs sensor back in properly, get under and look for the loom going into the suspension leg/brake caliper carrier, pull them out, wipe them and refit, iirc there is a pointer on the sensor, make sure this goes at 12 o'clock, i'e upwards, hth.

ive sent the car back to them to fix

the noise, is a scraping noise and im 90% sure its something lodged between pad and disc. i drove it last night and after the rust was cleaned off the disc the sound still persisted. when i got back to my house i had a look at the disc and it didnt take long to see the concentric score mark roughly mid-disc. its not quite a groove yet so hopefully the disc/pad isnt damaged too badly and wont need replacing.

and yes, other sources tell me that the likely culprit for the warning lights is a connection thats not seated properly or that was forgotten to be re-connected.