On a roundabout yesterday when engine just stopped. Chaos. Tried a few times to restart, lights came on but nothing happened. Guy stopped to give me a tow and when I tried one more time it started. No engine mgmnt light, all seemed normal. No further problems after 60 miles. Trying to get it booked in for a check.

Anyone else suffered?

On 5/27/2017 at 10:48, SteveC said:

On a roundabout yesterday when engine just stopped. Chaos. Tried a few times to restart, lights came on but nothing happened. Guy stopped to give me a tow and when I tried one more time it started. No engine mgmnt light, all seemed normal. No further problems after 60 miles. Trying to get it booked in for a check.

Anyone else suffered?

Hi Steve, you wrote "lights came on but nothing happened" when you attempted a restart - do you mean that the engine would not crank on the starter motor, or that it cranked at normal starting speed but did not fire up? Is your wagon Manual or DSG - did you stall the engine, or did it just die on you? 

Hi Warrior, engine didn't turn over at all. It's DSG so I can't stall it. Probably doing about 10mph as I got onto the roundabout then engine just stopped.

got the car back from Allams after 4 days of inspection. Couldn't replicate any of the faults, couldn't find any faults at all so have given me back the car. Disconcerting to say the least. Trusting it for now but another serious incident may make me think seriously about changing it.

Just a thought - is the stop/start system working OK?

2 hours ago, bertJ said:

Just a thought - is the stop/start system working OK?

 

I'm thinking possibly DSG stop/start issue also, a number of other members have quoted a problem with the auto-stop kicking in a little early as it thought the car was coming to a halt. Has this only happened the one time?

No previous problems. Actually I noticed other posts about stop/start but had never had a problem as I was careful with brake pressure so could keep the car running rather than make it stop when I wanted to. Funny enough since getting the car back I've turned off stop/start not really sure why, but I did wonder if it might have had something to do with the stoppage. Not sure why it wouldn't re-start straight away though. Thanks for comments, will update if any more problems.

On 2017-6-11 at 13:44, SteveC said:

Hi Warrior, engine didn't turn over at all. It's DSG so I can't stall it. Probably doing about 10mph as I got onto the roundabout then engine just stopped.

got the car back from Allams after 4 days of inspection. Couldn't replicate any of the faults, couldn't find any faults at all so have given me back the car. Disconcerting to say the least. Trusting it for now but another serious incident may make me think seriously about changing it.

Hi Steve

 

What was the reason to leave it with the garage for inspection for 4 days?

 

Funny but once I did manage to stall the car and I have DSG too. I was on a slightly steep hill crawling in slow traffic using the brake to slow down and release when we moved. I didn`t stop the car to standstill so I was doing 5-6mph and I saw the rev dropping below 1000rpm and just went even when I tried to accelerate. I was surprised but the car did start straight away after I`ve done the excercise.. put the gearbox in P then turn off the ignition then back again, start and put it in D and I was off.

That's interesting imikk3. Dealer said that they did all the tests they could think of and had spoken to Skoda UK so maybe they had to wait for them to get back. When they handed the car back the file looked pretty thick! Anyway, now I'm crossing my fingers every time I get in it.

Edited 12 June, 20179 yr by SteveC

Strange things continue.....following my original note, the car was returned to me with the message "we cannot find any fault."

Since then the central locking has shut off/on whilst driving at about 30mph and the lane correction light (orange) OFF has come on at 70mph and then having exited the motorway it switched to (green) ON at 30mph.

very unnerving.

 

Hi Steve, is your car still under warranty? Did the dealer say if there were any error codes logged in the cars system? How old is the battery and are you sure that it is charging correctly?  I'd suggest the best thing to do is to keep a careful log of all these faults and notify your dealer every time they happen.   

Yes I'm logging it all and reporting it to Allams. No error codes were seen by them, battery seems ok, starts easily.