New user here....be gentle.

Currently driving Octavia Elegance 2.0PD ('06 plate).

Driven for over two incident free years now. Best car I've ever had.

Tonight on the way home from work the engine simply cut out on me on three occasions over a time period of around 10 minutes.

First, I'd just come off the M60 onto a main "A" road and the engine simply cut out. All lights, windows, heater, radio were still working fine, but no warning lights on dash display. Turned the ignition key off and then on again..nothing. No dash warning lights & no turn over. Removed the key and tried again...same again,nothing. Waited around 30 seconds and tried again and it came back to life.

Secondly, only driven about 50 yards then same happened again, then again a third time shortly after.

A 30 second wait seemed to clear the fault, but my major concern is if the engine had simply cut out whilst on the motorway...evening rush, very busy and to suddenly lose the engine power would be a major headache, not to say potentially dangerous for me and other road users around me.

This cut out happened firstly whilst the engine was being revved and driven in third gear. Secondly it cut out whilst changing gear ( so clutch depressed) and thirdly it cut out whilst in neutral and idling in traffic queue, so It's really difficult to pinpoint the cause.

My initial thought are an electrical fault, possibly linked to an immobiliser issue......???

Guys, over to you...answers on a postcard......any suggestions?

New user here....be gentle.

Currently driving Octavia Elegance 2.0PD ('06 plate).

Driven for over two incident free years now. Best car I've ever had.

Tonight on the way home from work the engine simply cut out on me on three occasions over a time period of around 10 minutes.

First, I'd just come off the M60 onto a main "A" road and the engine simply cut out. All lights, windows, heater, radio were still working fine, but no warning lights on dash display. Turned the ignition key off and then on again..nothing. No dash warning lights & no turn over. Removed the key and tried again...same again,nothing. Waited around 30 seconds and tried again and it came back to life.

Secondly, only driven about 50 yards then same happened again, then again a third time shortly after.

A 30 second wait seemed to clear the fault, but my major concern is if the engine had simply cut out whilst on the motorway...evening rush, very busy and to suddenly lose the engine power would be a major headache, not to say potentially dangerous for me and other road users around me.

This cut out happened firstly whilst the engine was being revved and driven in third gear. Secondly it cut out whilst changing gear ( so clutch depressed) and thirdly it cut out whilst in neutral and idling in traffic queue, so It's really difficult to pinpoint the cause.

My initial thought are an electrical fault, possibly linked to an immobiliser issue......???

Guys, over to you...answers on a postcard......any suggestions?

Similar problem here '06 Plate Petrol Octavia VRS and was making the VERY short drive home from work New Years Morning when the power cut, like a fuel issue as trying to acellerate made it worse. Pulled over, cut out then wouldn't start, and after several attempts I gave up - then suddenly thought "immobiliser" so locked and unlocked the car several times - it started fine and i drove home.

However today I started it up, reversed of the driveway and ended up stranded sideways across the road !! Will not start at all (turns over but doesn't fire at all)

Once ive had it looked at i'll post the result on here.

OK, car has now been sorted. The fault was found (by the technicians at Hobin Skoda, Manchester) to be something called a "power up" relay.

Something they hadn't come across before and have had to order from Skoda.

Value...wait for it...a massive £7.40

Phew, what a relief.

With the VAT & labour, back on the road for less than £100

Since the original post, the fault had caused the car to die completely. Symptoms :

Turn ignition key...nothing. No dash lights (warning lights) & no engine crank...nothing, however still power to radio, lights & windows.

Technicians seem to think the relay had shorted due to the extreme cold and damp conditions.