I have a fabia estate 1.4 16v and the steering light comes on intermittently, today the car lost power completely when I was doing 70, it was very dangerous as i had to limp into the hard shoulder from the fast lane. Does anyone know what the issue could be, it had a brand new alternator last year! ANY help would be appreciated.

How old is the battery, this may cause it? Did car restart after limping across?

Battery is preety old but i tested it and it seems fine??? yes restarted but this is happening quite regularly, also got the lights dimming issue and can hear power steering pump whirring when the lights flicker?? Is this related>? It's obviously a loose connection or loss of electrics but its super dangerous!!

Edited 1 November, 201114 yr by Fabvag

Sounds like your cat is blocked mate. if its ok around town but cuts out on the motorway. i would put money on that the cat is blocked.

Gaz

how would you fix a blocked cat?? would vag com show this as a fault?

A blocked cat is extremely unlikely. A fault code scan would give more of an insight, if I were to make a guess in the abscence of any clues, the fuel pump relay would be where I would start.

I have had this on a polo and had this on a peogoet 106. Fine around town as soon as you go on daul carridge way or motorway. Engine cuts out. New cat fitted job done.

Run a scan aswell see if anything obvious comes up.

Fuel pump relay is a good shout too.

Gaz

I will scan and report back.

pas sensor showed up on diagnostic, so guessing its that!!

When you have the engine running , does it have the alternator light on?

There is a wire that is quite common to break , this happened to me

May be worth having a check

It goes around the gearbox if I remember correctly

Sarah

A blocked cat is extremely unlikely. A fault code scan would give more of an insight, if I were to make a guess in the abscence of any clues, the fuel pump relay would be where I would start.

+1

My 1.4 16V did this to me on a NSL road, so not as butt clenching a moment as yours.. I had the stereo up quite loud and genuinely didn't realise until I was slowing down and the go pedal wasn't make go anymore!

For me, it was like someone had just turned the key back to the AUX/Ignition position.. So all the electrics stayed live, but with the ASR and steering lights lighting up.

No logged faults, strangely.. The only way it got traced was it luckily refused to start with my Mechanics Diagnostic hooked up. Was reporting all kinds of fuel system related faults, implausible signal from injector 1, 3 etc etc etc... They were just spitting their dummies cuz they had no fuel to inject.

It only cut out at speed on me once, but what started to happen was refusal to start at all.. followed by completely normal behaviour, not even a cough.. Just "No,No,No,No,No,No,No, OK....." which figures as the 8th or 9th time the key was turned the relay would work and all would be well.

I have my black vRS because of that car... It stopped me getting to view a silver one!