How annoying 

 

Our 3500 mile old Sportline TDi 150 dsg appears to have gone into limp mode and is showing a stop start failure.

 

Currently awaiting Skoda Assist to turn up.

 

Have any of you experienced this?

 

I'm driving to Italy in it on Friday.....

Stop/start will disable itself if the car is in limp mode so the message is probably a symptom of a fault rather than the cause of the limp mode.

5 minutes ago, SuperbTWM said:

Stop/start will disable itself if the car is in limp mode so the message is probably a symptom of a fault rather than the cause of the limp mode.

 

Of course. Hadn't thought of it like that.

 

Hopefully it's nothing too sinister 

 

 

Fuel pressure sensor fault. Very common among 2.0 VAG TDi apparently 

31 minutes ago, AngloDeutsch said:

Fuel pressure sensor fault. Very common among 2.0 VAG TDi apparently 

 

Fixed / replaced there and then?

1 hour ago, AngloDeutsch said:

Fuel pressure sensor fault. Very common among 2.0 VAG TDi apparently 

Sounds like an easy fix but I don't think I've ever seen one of those fail in the Briskoda community before so it can't be that common

Edited 30 April, 20179 yr by SuperbTWM

1 hour ago, CheshireBumpkin said:

 

Fixed / replaced there and then?

 Nope. Needs replacing. 

 

The AA don't carry them. Has to go back to Skoda for a warranty job.

Sounds more like the oil pressure sensor and I'm sure this was covered recently in this section or the mk3 Octavia section. 

In my less than knowledgeable brain I would have thought that an oil sensor would have been a red stop message not a carry on limp home.

The Diesel engines fitted to the latest vehicles in the VW group have low and high oil pressure sensors. A fault with either results in the ECU dropping the car into limp mode. The fault doesn't actually have to be low oil pressure, it's usually a tolerance failure of the sensor. 

 

There's a tech bulletin covering it. 

 

It happened to someone else last week:

 

 

It threw up a fault code for the high pressure fuel sensor. 

 

Anyway, I'm hoping to dump it with my local dealer when they open. I MUST have it back on Thursday night though or I'll miss my ferry on Friday. Grrrr. 

How's it looking for getting back the car in time?

Mine was deffo the oil pressure sensor (not fuel) and once garage had the part took half an hour to sort. In the meantime the problem repeated...accelerating from standstill going up an incline seemed to be a trigger. Changed on Friday last week and no repeats.

On 5/3/2017 at 07:11, ILOVEMYSUPERB said:

How's it looking for getting back the car in time?

 

I got the car back in good time after a right old mess around with an Enterprise Hire Car

 

Did another 3000 miles in just over a week with no issues