Hi all. Well I'm four days into owning my first ever Skoda, a 51-plate Octavia vRS, and I'm absolutely loving it! What a car, and it has so far surprised everyone who has been for a ride in it.

However, yesterday afternoon it developed a problem and I'm seriously worried. I was driving in extremely heavy rain when I hit a couple of rather deep puddles. Straight after this, when wanting the car to accelerate a little harder and hitting about 3,000rpm, the car stuttered and the engine management light flashed on for approx 10 seconds. If I eased off and drove at low revs and a part throttle the car performed as normal, but as soon as I put my foot down again the same problem occured. My car is running a Jabbasport induction kit and my initial thought is that some water has been splashed onto the filter but can anyone enlighten me further about this problem or indeed give me a solution. I'm seriously worried I've broken my new Skoda already :(

Sounds like you might have soaked the air filter, seeing as you have an induction kit. If that happened it would restrict airflow, and the engine would struggle to suck in enough air when it needed to. Open the bonnet and have a looksy.

This wouldn't of happened with the standard airbox, mainly because it's designed and tested to survive all sorts of conditions.

The other option is that you've damaged a sensor or connection through the water impact.

Get the error codes read off it anyway...

Well I have given the air filter a thorough baking (well, I put it in the oven on a very low heat for five minutes) but it didn't seem wet to me anyway, which was strange. I re-installed it again this morning with my fingers crossed that this would get the car back to full health... but unfortunately it hasn't worked. The car still drives perfectly as long as I use about one-third throttle, but as soon as I ask the engine to work harder it stutters like a goodun. I'm now assuming that I've knocked out a sensor or something when I hit this puddle.

Apologies for my lack of knowledge here but do I have to take the car to a main dealer for them to get the car on a diagnostics machine and find what the fault is? I've never owned a car this new (I've come from a long line of old Mercs that have never heard of the word diagnostics) so am a bit clueless here.

Any help someone can give me would be really, really appreciated.

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Or a code reader from ebay. Or a garage.

Is the eml still on?? From your discription it seems like it's cutting boost or you have a boost leak. Discription is similer to when i have a boost pipe pop off (doesn't bring the eml on). I'm just wondering if it could be the pancake pipe as on a standard car thats the most vunurable one? I could be totally wrong but it's worth a look

Sounds kind of coil pack-ish too me

If it's the jabba kit then it's in the bonnet rather than under the bumper so I doubt thats the problem

You need a scan have a look at the list, it will be a lot cheaper than a main dealer

http://briskoda.net/...00#entry2460200

Sounds kind of coil pack-ish too me

If it's the jabba kit then it's in the bonnet rather than under the bumper so I doubt thats the problem

You need a scan have a look at the list, it will be a lot cheaper than a main dealer

http://briskoda.net/...00#entry2460200

Sounds a bit like a coil pack to me.

The EML only comes on after a few seconds of stuttering and as soon as I ease off the throttle and the stuttering stops it goes out. Thanks the list to look through - I'll find someone local who can hopefully find out what this problem is and then get it sorted.