Hi, new owner and sadly with a problem.

My wife has a 51 plate octavia 4x4 estate 1.8 turbo. Low mileage with a full service history, and was cheap to buy, it's a great car. Went for a service last month when the vent hoses were identified as faulty, I'm quite handy on the spanners so I did them both last month. Car was ok for a while and then the wife said she'd noticed an increase in fuel consumption. After a run the other week I was standing behind the car and it was stinking of fuel. Cut to today and the engine warning light is on.

Does this need to go off to a garage or is there a known fault trace? I was thinking lamda sensor? car is running fine bar it's present thirst. It's not desperate as I'll break out my forester which is handy for this kind of emergency!

Cracking forum, been lurking for a while!

Hi and welcome aboard.

Found a local independant dealer who did a check and the fault was an N249. Told me there were three of these sensors and it's not possible to identify which one it is.

I've had a quick scan of the forum for the fault and it sounds a fairly easy fix, is it really the case of changing three bits?