I have a 2004 Fabia 1.2, it is excellent, and has only now after 88000 miles brought me to a halt!

I am needing a new battery it's true, I car share and while it's fine during the weeks I drive it's been needing jump started this winter whenever it's been sitting for the other guy's week. But today was... weird.

I jump started it, everything was normal, I left it ticking over while I put the leads away and closed up the other car and the house; then however it cut-out when I'd only moved half it's length and won't refire. It was turnbing over no problem but was showing no sign of catching at all. I have just replaced a coilpack last week, but again everything seemed back to normal before today.

Could there be a separate electrical issue that effects the ignition but not the starter?

Does it need some kind of reset after having a new coil?

I'm as certain as I can be that it died away rather than stalling.

The battery is questionable, but the engine was turning over very well and reconnecting the other car made no difference; I just don't understand.

Could I have fried the ECU?

Hope someone can help!

Best

Robin

Just had another look and the EPC light and low oil pressure are coming up now, could these be causing the ECU to prevent ignition?

I think that the EPC light comes on until the engine is running. The oil pressure monitor is only inhibitted for a set time, so if the engine is not running, then the oil pressure will still be low - so this warning is being given - this is normal when the engine does not start but is still getting cranked. You should not need to reset anything after replacing a coil, but I'm assumming that it did run okay after the coil had been replaced? Maybe buy a cheap DMM (digital multi meter) and check the battery voltage as that battery might now be unservicable.