This morning the car was cold and I was a little heavy with the go faster pedal (basically letting the at change up on limiter) and I got a point where the cars powers let off and engine management light flashed. I let off obviously and drove to pull in cause I had thought had broken something. The light stopped flashing and went off, to which I thought it just of been a misfire? It's the first time I have experienced this, but also the first time I have been brutal without letting everything get to running temperature. Will a fault code reader still be able to see what happened? Even though the lights gone off now??

Definatley sounds like a misfire to me....

I might get it hooked up to a fault code reader, the thing is I've never had this before but I usually let it get warmed up before taking it anywhere near auto change up. Really disappointed in myself for doing so In the first place, the poor girl will have been freezing Cold and I've given her a hard time. For punishment I'd better go sit down the rugby pitch for an hour then go straight into 100m sprints cold and see how I feel lol

Any 'electrically' controlled/monitored fault can make the ECU go into limp mode.

Example - was driving mine last December in torrential rain on the motorway and a land rover pulled out in front of me, options were hammer on the brakes or nail the throttle and pull out past it avoiding traffic coming up the outside lane.

So I nailed the throttle & for 1second lost power & eml flashed then bingo everything ok.

To cut the story short turns out when the charger kicked in there had been water on the electromagnetic clutch due to the weather which allowed it to initially slip, the ECU noted an airflow fault and did what it's programmed to do.

Was there a fault? No, driving conditions more than explained it. Could your issue be along the same lines? Could be anything, get it on a diag machine before panicking over what could be nothing

Any 'electrically' controlled/monitored fault can make the ECU go into limp mode.

Example - was driving mine last December in torrential rain on the motorway and a land rover pulled out in front of me, options were hammer on the brakes or nail the throttle and pull out past it avoiding traffic coming up the outside lane.

So I nailed the throttle & for 1second lost power & eml flashed then bingo everything ok.

To cut the story short turns out when the charger kicked in there had been water on the electromagnetic clutch due to the weather which allowed it to initially slip, the ECU noted an airflow fault and did what it's programmed to do.

Was there a fault? No, driving conditions more than explained it. Could your issue be along the same lines? Could be anything, get it on a diag machine before panicking over what could be nothing

Had exactly the same thing driving to Goodwood a few months ago. Monsoon conditions and had to boot it round a car after I'd been cruising at 70 for miles. Light flashed and went out. Haven't had a problem since

I let off obviously and drove to pull in cause I had thought had broken something.

I would go to the doctors, and increase fibre in your diet

Confirmed, cylinder 2 + 4 misfire fault codes. Also going hand in hand was multiple cylinder misfire code. Faults have been cleared so I'm to monitor it carefully :-)

Change your spark plugs; mine caused this fault at 8,000miles.

Garage job though, special tool needed. Or call out Skoda Assist.

Tony