Hi

My car is a Skoda fabia 1, 2008, 1.2

Yesterday while driving my car an amber warning light came on. My manual told me it is "control system for exhaust"

This happened around a year ago, but went on and off a couple of times. I got it checked and was told it was mosty likely a faulty sensor, so it was changed and I hadnt had any more problems till now.

Am I right in thinking it is unlikely to be a sensor problem, considering this sensor is only a year old?

Having done a google search, people have suggested that the emissions may be temporarily out of range, or something to do with a lambda, or the rear lights?!

I want to avoid taking and having a diagnostic if I can help it, as its very expensive, although I dont want to keep driving my car if I could do any damage

Anyone got any experience of this? I get the feeling that this may be a common fault in skodas? When I did my google search the first time around I didnt even mention skoda and all the results that came up were for skodas

I do 350 miles per week, by the way, and have been doing this sort of mileage for the past year. I do a combination of motorway, town and countryside driving (if that is relevent in any way..) Current mileage is 35000ish

Thank you in advance!

So why not buy a £5 lead from eBay and download the free version of vcds and read your own fault code yourself

Thanks for your reply Avalon, is this something which is easily done by a novice?

I have seen fault reading equipment on ebay before but I am concerned about their accuracy, if a garage could get the kit to do this for £5 on ebay would they be charging £80 or more

If I was to get the fault code myself what would I need to do then, just take it to a garage and tell them the fault?

I'd think that if you buy a code reader, you should be able to sort the failure. If you feel you can't then do not buy the code reader! Now, if you are a complete novice, having a problem, identifying the problem using that code reader might happen or it might not. Its a bit like buying a big set of sockets but not knowing what to do with them - that does not work. Put it this way, you buy the code reader, you read the code, if it was VAG specific code reader then the codes read will be exactly the same as a garage equiped with a VAG specific code reader, so far so good, so what to do with information? Taking it to a garage and asking them to replace part A - they will just be providing the parts and acting under your direction - no resolution to your problem will be guarranted. By all means buy a code reader and check codes, but you will only be doing this to clear "rogue" fault codes if you are a complete novice, then if they look like real faults, you will need to take it to a garage and at this point you must give them the right to read the codes again as part of their task of fixing your car.