I have a Yeti 1.2 TSI auto and have experienced on periodic occasions problems with the breaks when reversing.

Basically, it tends to happen when the car is cold but not always, i.e left overnight. but on most occasions it is fine.

When reversing the break becomes really hard to touch and fails to stop the car and the revs seem to be higher than normal. I have had to ram my foot down hard on the break and have even had to lift up the hand break to stop the car.

As I said this does not happen all the time. I have had the car for 16 months now and it has only done 11,000 miles. This first happened after about 2 months and has happened periodically ever since.

I have spoken to the servicing people at Skoda near me in Old Woking and they are going to have a look at it, but they have not come across this issue before.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this that might help the Skoda team find the fault?

Any help before Thursday would be useful as that is when I have to take it into Skoda.

Edited 12 September, 201114 yr by philisa1

The extra revs sounds like the automatic choke kicking in to warm the car up. The odd thing is that this would happen when going forwards as well as reverse. My wife's C3 races a little when it is cold and does need a more aggressive stamp on the brake to stop the car when it is in that mode.

Thanks for the quick reply.

It only happens in reverse. Going forwards it absolutely fine.

Forget my dodgy theory then.

Not had any of those reversing issues with my DSG. I reverse off my drive several times a day.

Is the servo driven by air from the engine? In which case, that sounds like the problem.

Brake pedal becoming solid and immovable is usually associated with hill hold :wonder: if your getting some faulty signals flying around effecting the HHC and ECU

As a side note my wife's Fabia lost HHC functionality for a week but it reappeared again before the dealer looked at it and you guessed it no fault codes logged, however it's been fine since.

TP

Thanks for your replies.

I don't have hill hold and there are no fault codes.

It's in the Skoda workshop tomorrow, I'll keep you posted if they find anything.

Good luck with that.

I would be most interested to discover what they find out, please?

Hi all

Skoda have fixed the problem.

They carried out diagnostic and visual check of the braking system and found the brake servo connection seal pushed inside the vacuum pipe, causing a blockage to the brake servo. They removed the connection and refitted the seal.

All is well and I feel much better now and safer. It was probably there from day one and I should have taken it in earlier I guess. It's all under warranty and would have cost £79.40.

Good to here they have fixed it, slightly alarming that there could be such a fault in the first place.

What I don't understand is why that only caused a problem in reverse.