Hey guys. Bit of a crappy first time post.

I've been driving my new vrs for about a month now. I used to own a Vw rocco and a mk5 before that, never had any problems with any of them...

Bought the vrs second hand off the dealer ship, ex demo with 10k on the clock... Pretty much every optional extra you can have Etc etc..

About 4 days ago my electro steering warning light was coming on the dash and flashing on and off intermittently. It was yellow which apparently indicates a fault with it.

It was flashing though so I put it down to a faulty sensor and it eventually stopped flashing... I topped up the fluid to make sure it wasn't low and continued to drive for the next few days

I though 'horray' the sensor has fixed itself and continued to drive...

Now my issue has got much much worse, my esb light is constantly on, the steering light is constantly on, it says I need to keep checking my tyre pressure when they are all correct and all the other lights flash on and off every now and then...

Does anyone know if this is a common electrical fault on the vrs?

And is it sonething i can ignore?

I can't take it back to the garage till the 2nd of January and my car needs to do about 4 50 mile round trips to work before then...

Should/can I risk it or should I leave it on my drive and try to borrow another car?

I've never had anything like this go wrong before and as its the first car I've ever bought that's not been a through and through Vw it's making me think why did I bother.

Any help you fine gentlemen can give me will be appreciated. Thanks in advance

Dash

You could call out skoda/vw assist and they can check for fault codes and reset them if required.

I would say look for some one on here with VAG com and get it scanned. Was it bought from a Skoda Dealer as an approved car, if so it will be covered by Skoda Assist so would call them out to it.

Simon

where exactly did you put the steering fluid and whatdid you use?

Call VW Assistance, dont even hesitate it mate.

I would expect a single duff ABS sensor to be causing all of the faults, a scan with VCDS will confirm. However the car has warranty, so use it. Skoda Assist will come out and scan the car for you, and arrange for a free short term hire car whilst yours gets transported to the dealer for repair.

PAS / Tyre pressure monitoring and ESP and ABS all use the ABS sensors in some way and need the signals from all four to work correctly.

Another first post.

A similar thing happened to my partner on her way to work a couple of weeks ago. The dash started displaying an ABS fault and then continued to display every fault it could. As she was only a couple of miles from home and everything seemed to be working she turned back, at this point the dash lights, speedo and every other gauge failed. At home she turned the car off hoping it would reset and found the car would not restart and the key would not release, at this point we called Skoda assist.

The RAC attended and the car was taken to the local Skoda dealer, this part was extremely slick. On arrival she was greeted, booked in and supplied with a courtesy car.

The next day we received a call to say we could pick up the car, great news…..” Not” as it wouldn’t start, very embarrassing. After a couple of days the fault was diagnosed as a dash pod failure, only problem is the part had to be ordered with an approximate delivery date of 2 wks.

The car was returned to us two days ago ( I didn’t want my new car over Christmas anyway!!!) fingers crossed the problems solved, two months old and 1200 miles not the best start.

Call Skoda assist and give the problem to them to deal with.

Personally I wouldn't be driving the car anywhere till you've got it fixed.

id also like to know where the op put power steering fluid!

Apparently all I did was top up the break fluid :S

Makes me feel like an idiot :lol:

I've phoned skoda assistance and they are on the way round. Hopefully it's just a sensor fault and everything is going to get fixed.

Failing that, they've said they will organise a courtesy car if the tech can't fix it on my drive way.

Thanks for the help guys! I complete forget I had that!

Hope you used the correct fluid in the brake system, with DOT4 or DOT5 on the container.

Ian

"Now my issue has got much much worse, my esb light is constantly on, the steering light is constantly on, it says I need to keep checking my tyre pressure when they are all correct and all the other lights flash on and off every now and then..."

That sentence says it all to me, if the TPM is saying to check the tyre pressures when a manual check confirms they are fine and the dash is lighting up then I'd be 99% certain it is a faulty wheel speed sensor.

Edited 30 December, 201213 yr by countryboy

Since your dash lights all seem connected hopefully it's just a sensor. I had to have dash pod replaced but I was getting all warning lights coming on or sometimes a random selection!

Sarge.