I was on my way home tonight I had just over taken two cars and then my engine light started to flash so I pulled over to to check what it is in the manual it read it was the exhaust system examination and go to a Skoda specialist garage

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Which car & engine is it?

 

EDIT, 

Yellow 62 plate vRS.

 

So the question will be, how many miles,

have the Spark Plugs been replaced yet, 

ECU latest Update done,

& do you run it on 99 , 97 or 95 ron petrol.

 

Has the light gone out now?

Be sure not to drive it hard until 'All 4 Spark Plugs are Checked'.  Closely Inspected.

* And be sure you keep them. Do not let the garage throw them away.*

Edited 19 April, 201511 yr by goneoffSKi

Its about 34000 and it only run on 99 fuel not sure if the spark plugs have been replaced and sure I ring the dealership or ring a Skoda specialist garage up

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Not likely to have been changed at 1st or 2nd service or unless there was already an issue,

so likely Cylinder 3 Plug is on its way out.

All 3 will need replacing.

Please get a picture of them.  in the order they are in the engine.

 

Is it still under the Original Warranty, 

and did you get any Warranty when you bought it.

 

Hopefully just the new Spark Plugs Required.

The Scheduled Change is at 40,000 miles, but that really is to long for a Twincharger.

sorry, that was a typo.

 'All 4 plugs need removed, and it is time to replace all 4 unless you know they were replaced already, and when removed all 4 are in perfect condition.'

Get it hooked up to VAGCOM/VCDS, (have a look in here to see your closest member: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/224376-vcds-owners-map/ )  and it'll still be registered even if the EML has gone out.  

Sorry, but it will not necessarily register,

even for checking at the Dealership. unless there were enough Misfire in a Cycle.

 

There may be a code there for something other than mis-fires though.

Ah right my fault I thought as soon as the eml flashes/comes on then what caused it will be recorded. 

 

Easy job to get the coil-packs out, Will, where are you located?  Sounds like you're having the same problem as myself.  I've taken it to Skoda dealership who then charged me £70 for a diagnostics which they told me what I told them before they did it.  Then got a phone call 2 weeks later saying that I need to send it back to them for a compression test for a nice £130+vat later, I told them to stick it.  I mentioned that when I dropped the hire car off to pick my car up, they mentioned a new engine but they said that I'd have to pay for that at a hefty £3000, I also told them where to go.   So im dealing with problem and trying to let it get to me.

It sill under warranty

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I live in Northwich,the dealership is in Crewe

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Edited 20 April, 201511 yr by will_nfs

If the light is on and you do not want to drive 20 miles call Skoda Assist and the Responder can Scan it, get codes if there are any,

and arrange the Transportation to a Dealer if required.

Get them to arrange a Courtesy car.

 

If you only had the Exhaust Emissions Control System Light on and now off ( Engine Light), just drive easy, 

do not use Surper & Turbo,

I've got booked in on Wednesday morning

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could also be the map sensor getting the fuel mixture wrong thus having to dump some into the CAT but goneofski is probably right your plugs will be fouled up pal common issue among these VRS cars 

I'm confused!!!!

why does the posters ident say "05 fabia Vrs"??

A good question. But see post #154 in the thread below.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/332715-skoda-fabia-mk2-vrs-2010-2014-how-many-left-members-driving-them/page-6#entry4175957

It was just my spark plugs cost me £95.14

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See I would've looked myself in the first instance would've been a lot cheaper.

It was just my spark plugs cost me £95.14

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£95 for plugs...

 

Plugs on ebay, all four of them less than £30 and 15mins labor to change them all

Edited 6 May, 201511 yr by Jabozuma

£95 for plugs...

 

Plugs on ebay, all four of them less than £30 and 15mins labor to change them all

^^ this!

 

you can get really nice fancy plugs for £50

That is surely £95 for the plugs supplied and fitted. Plenty Skoda dealers Quote £119 OVER and above the Service being done at the time.

It is not 15 minutes labour to do the plugs. 15 minutes extra at service time though.

Not 15 mins that Skoda charges i.e. they have more as the time needed to do them in their price list or it literary takes more than 15 mins?

Undo one screw for the plastic hoses holder clip, undo another screw for another hose holder, pull all four coil packs with the correct tool, undo plugs with thin walled magnetic plug socket, put new ones in and do the initial steps in reverse. If you'd done it before it takes 15 mins. First time around an hour perhaps

Collect car from the front, and the worksheet. take it to the workshop.

Open bonnet, remove plugs, go collect plugs, do the change, put the car on VAS (some do), Some do it before starting.

Road Test the car, some do. 

Return car to the Front, keys to desk.

 

Somebody has to pay for Technicians time other than just the time they are under the bonnet.

but,

when the car is already in for a Service & you are paying for more labour than it actually takes and most is already done or should be,

including on the Diagnostics & the Road Test, is why VW, Seat, Audi might only charge the £50 extra for the Plugs.

When you put it this way I see your point now.

It was going to be over £100 but they gave me a discount

I drop it off at 8.30am and asked for to be finished by 1pm as I had be in work for 2.30pm

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