Hi guys, dont venture into this part of the site too often as im a mk1 owner, but im hoping some of you might help?

I persuaded my mom to get a fabia monte carlo the other month, managed to get a white and blackl one quick! (2 waiting at the port)

Yesterday while driving home she went over a speed bump at about 20mph (she doesnt usualy drive quick) when it lost all power and cut out, completely dead!! It wont start, although the lights come up on the dash. Got the RAC to take a look, but he cant find the fault so its got towed back to skoda.

Has this ever happend to anyone else?? Any ideas what it may be??

We can wait for skoda to get back in touch, but we'd like to know if there is anything we can do before they start looking into it.

Thanks in advance

happened to me in a mitsubishi carisma, the shock put the ecu's nose out of joint and it had to be reset by the dealer, there was no damage to the car just the computer didnt like it, 5 mins at dealer and it was back to normal

Cheers lofty, that was my initial thought, isnt there an electronic fuel switch on these that have to be reset via vagcom?

sounds plausible

Yes, same thing happened on my MKI VRs. One of the relays had come lose, it was part of the ignition ones. After a lot of dash removed on o/s AA pulled them and gave a wipe and put back in. And then it all worked again

Bron

'Inertia Cut Off',?

Was there no mention of an 'Emergency/Crash cut out switch' functioning and cutting the fuel,

which happened because the vehicle had thought it had actually crashed with hitting the Speed Bump hard?

(Normally a AA/RAC recovery driver would re-set)

Really really surprised that any Break Down or Recovery operative responding to a call out did not tell a driver about this possibility after being told the circumstances or symptoms

& apologize if they were not just able to re-set the switch and it needed to go into the ECU and they could not, they have a reader.

Really surprised that the Inertia switch is not readily accessible with a Manual reset on a Skoda without requiring to log in to any Electronics..(VAGcom etc)

That would always be the favourite, or possibly the main 150 amp fuse or whatever the Main fuse is, has detached, come loose, blown,

but since the lights are working it is not that..

george

Edited 18 June, 201214 yr by sk4gw

The rac plugged his computer in but apparently it wouldnt talk to the ecu. He thinks something is loose. Skoda assistance said there is no manual 'cut off switch', we did look but couldnt find one.

A slightly similar thing happened when I bought a second hand Fabia 3. A few electrical problems showed up right after delivery and they eventually traced it to a micro crack in the ignition key barrel. Anyway after they sorted all that my first port of call was the petrol station. After filling up, I turned the key and nothing - all displays dead etc. A quick look under the hood revealled that battery negative lead loose. I screwed the nut up finger tight and off I went. It's a long shot but it would be nice if yours was something as simple as that

2 days at skoda and still no news, they cant find the fault either! God knows what the problem is?

Turned out to be a broken wire in the loom!!!! (aparently) everything seems fine now.

oh right, more coincidental than cause then? Good its sorted, we rely on cars far too much nowadays eh