I'll have to explain what happened. Saturday gone by, driving the car into town, the clutch went in my 2000 1.3 felicia 1.3mpi. Pulled out a second hand one I had out of a crashed skoda I have (wouldn't have done this normally, but I was trying to be on the road for something on Sunday, also, its condition was decent).

Got that in no problems, but now it will not start. I've cleaned out Throttle Body, Checked for spark (Holding coil pack with plugs to see if they sparked-they did).

I also Checked all the engine loom (it was broke on the loom side on the brown wire where the lambda plugs in- Connector was soldered on from spare loom), Checked all the earth leads and Now for the first time ever the immobilizer light blinks, at different sequences, never the same thing twice.

The car has got a cobra alarm system fitted but I never got anything with it (fobs, instructions). I just had a single key with a chip. Up until now, all I had to do was change the shocks and 2 wheel bearings. The car had never given me trouble after a nearly a year of use, good body, sweet engine with just over 100k miles on it, always serviced.

One thing I did notice was last week, the car would drastically drop in power for 2 seconds doing motorway speed. This happened twice so far. Please skoda Gurus, Grant unto me your wisdom. In return; My eternal gratitude.

I apologise to anyone who took time to read this, I have it sussed. In a totally stupid move, I neglected to remove the flywheel sensor during the clutch change and subsequently beat it into a hoop, so it was erratically picking up the signal as it was meant to whenever the flywheel was in a certain position. I stuck in a different sensor and that fixed it outright it seems. I hope maybe this is of some use to someone that was clumsy as myself.

Easily done and a common mistake, good on you for coming clean!

Well, in a fortnights time when I'm doin the clutch again, I'll know what to do and not rush like a headless chicken. Kudos on the rapid, never seen one my neck of the woods.

Kudos on the rapid, never seen one my neck of the woods.

I can't move for the bl00dy things!!