Evening all, I'm new to this site and am hoping that someone here can help me..

Set off this morning in -14 degrees. All going well although the car "missed a beat" a couple of times but recovered no problem - I just put it down to very cold conditions...

After about 45 minutes of slow running got onto the dual carriageway, up to a steady 65 without any problems. Suddenly, the car spluttered twice, flashed the glow plug warning light, told me "workshop fault" and then died. Car turns over fine but will not fire and the "Check engine" light is permanently on.

RAC came and manged to get it to fire briefly on Easy start but the car will not run by itself.

The Fuel filter bowl is full (no jelly wax) and the priming pump can be heard to run for around 4 secs when the ignition is switched on.

After a tow in to my local independent garage, they have interrogated the system and it is showing a Fuel master relay supply fault - They are at a loss as to what to do next as they have not got a lot of diagnostic equipment for this type of vehicle.

Has anyone seen this before? Is it a "Showstopper" to repair or is it fairly reasonable?

Any ideas would help because otherwise I am looking at a potentially expensive recovery into Newcastle to a Skoda dealer (I live up the tyne valley in Northumberland)

Up until this the car has been fine so its a bolt out of the blue that is has broken down.

Any help greatfully received,

Andy

maybe frozen diesel....but once the cars been running for a while it should have circulated some warm fuel back to the tank??? it really needs the fuel pressure checked, make sure the pumps working correcly etc and go from there. We have had problems out in the sticks around -18-19oc with this sort of problem. hope you get it sorted.....

An update...

After a visit to one garage who were unable to assist (couldnt diagnose the problem completely) I took it to a small independent who took 20 minutes to diagnose a poorly injector.

Got it back after the Christmas break running fine.

Seemingly a faulty injector causes the whole fuel system to shut down which is somewhat galling given me and the Mrs were stuck at the side of the road for 4 hours in -12 degrees waiting for the RAC to tow us in ..

Would like to give a 'thumbup' to Chris at Valley VW in Hexham, Northumberland, who sorted the problem out very efficiently and for a reasonable price (given the frankly breathtaking cost of replacement OEM injectors for these engines...)

As an aside, while looking into sourcing a replacement injector for the car, I found a company called Merlin Diesel (through google) who said that they do most of the PD injectors on a reconditioned exchange basis - I didnt go down this route this time, but I think i'll give it a go if any more fail on the car as I can't keep buying new ones at that price. Has anyone out there used this company or similar?

Hope this is of help to someone anyway...