Finally managed to arrange a day out with some friends today, some jobs to do on our fleet of old buses plus a meal etc afterwards!

Anyway, left home, all was well, then about 40 miles from home, EPC light comes on, car starts running very lumpy, picnic stop was about a mile away on teh dual carriageway, so limped it into there, as I turn into the picnic area, clouds of white smoke out the back etc etc so parked up turned her off, left a few mins tried to start again, didnt want to know just turned over, so rang Skoda Assist 20 minutes later the local RAC man turns up, checks teh car over, runs the computer on it, says a problem on cylinder number 2, fuel mixture or something, so he takes the coil and plug out, pops a new one in, nothing same, just turns over, so puts some compression meters etc on it, and nothing, so declares he is beaten, calls for the recovery lorry, recovery lorry turns up, takes me back to my local dealer, sales side is open but no service side as its bank holiday.

Skoda assist provide a taxi for me to get home, and also arrange a hire car, the hire car company picking me up in a bit to sort out hire car.

So all in all its being sorted, but just made it a pain in the ass day!

Just curious what could be wrong on the car, its under 12 months old, only 7500 miles, but its definately quite poorly, when he took the plugs out they were seriously coked in black muck, but the one on cylinder 2 was seriously coked up, in my (non mechanic) view they appeared more coked up than they should of been more like a car that had done 40K, not 7.5K!

Anyway, car at dealers they will sort so will no doubt get a call on Wednesday telling me what the problem is and what needs doing, anyway, car is being traded in a few weeks time, but just curious!

Anyway, the whole Skoda Assist has been excellent, kept fully informed all the time etc, well recommended!

Thoughts anyone?

James

I don't think there should be any coke like substance on the spark plugs. I would expect a light grey colouring or possibly slightly tan coloured but that is it. Anything else means the fuel is not burning properly.

Glad to hear the Skoda Assist works well.

I don't think there should be any coke like substance on the spark plugs. I would expect a light grey colouring or possibly slightly tan coloured but that is it. Anything else means the fuel is not burning properly.

Glad to hear the Skoda Assist works well.

Yes thats what the breakdown man said, the plugs were black, he said that wasnt right and was concerned that its not burning fuel properly!

Lets hope I get ome news tomorrow and all is sorted!

So they finally rang today, said its a faulty injector, so they are replacing either toiday or Monday so lets see what shes liek then.

Ahh is it stuck open?

Can you post the exact fault code?

Sorry, I dont klnow it was exactly it was the very attractive young lady from teh service team that rang me, so cant give any more details, hopefully when I collect it next week I might know a bit more.

My 2008 tfsi had to have injector number 2 changed at 35K miles (prior to me buying it from Meadens Skoda) as it had developed a misfire at idle. Weirdly enough I actually test drove the car with the misfire and it felt perfectly fine to drive, no misfires under load or anything just when at idle. There must be the odd dodgy injector about!