Car's gone into limp mode after a blow-out and then flat battery on the M6. Second time in a week I've arrived back home on a low-loader. 

 

Skoda want £106 to reset it! Is this something I can do myself with VCDS? Alternatively, is it a job which my local garage could do? 

 

Getting pretty fed up with this car at the moment... 

VCDS will certainly be able to read and clear the fault. After that it's a case of fixing the root cause.

Cheers.  It's the fixing bit I'm worried about...

5 hours ago, Noddy90 said:

Car's gone into limp mode after a blow-out and then flat battery on the M6. Second time in a week I've arrived back home on a low-loader. 

 

Skoda want £106 to reset it! Is this something I can do myself with VCDS? Alternatively, is it a job which my local garage could do? 

 

Getting pretty fed up with this car at the moment... 

 

Why did you get a flat battery - were the lights left on after the blow out for a long while? I wonder if your battery is on its way out

 

 

Yeah; I think you might be right. Apart from that, what about this for a tale of woe: 

 

On my way to Manchester airport for a flight to Malta. I had a blow-out on the M6 at 4.00am  in Cheshire. While I was waiting for Green Flag, I fell down a concrete maintenance conduit and badly bruised my ribs. When the mechanic arrived, my battery had gone flat so he charged it and then told me the car had gone into limp mode. He asked me to gun the throttle and, when it wouldn't rev past 4000rpm, told me it was unsafe to continue my journey and that he needed to call out recovery to take me home. First I had to be taken off the M6 by another company as I was in roadworks recovery zone. Finally a different bloke from Green Flag stuck me on a trailer and drove me through heavy traffic from Knutsford to Telford. I took the car to a VW specialist who scanned it and told me it WASN'T in limp mode and that the 4000rpm is a perfectly normal function of the rev limiter when in neutral. That wrong diagnosis has cost me my whole fecking holiday! Needless to say, I have been on the phone to Green Flag and am currently awaiting a response. 

Bruised ribs, missed holiday, and a mis-diagnosis.

 

Is that karma for not just putting the spare wheel on yourself? 

Ludicrously, I couldn't remove the plastic caps - it was 4.00, raining and pitch black and I didn't have the right tool.  Still would have been no good - the tyre was absolutely shredded, canting the wheel so the bolts had locked into the hub; the burly mechanic with his wrench took about 10 mins of cursing and jumping up and down on them...

Don't bother buying a lottery ticket - it's not your week!

 

My Superb was also supplied with a Spare Wheel kit that didn't have the plastic wheel nut cap removal tool. Invested in one from ebay :-

eg..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-GENUINE-AUDI-VW-SKODA-SEAT-WHEEL-NUT-CAP-REMOVAL-TOOL-8D0012244A-/141453580858

 

Edited 19 February, 20188 yr by bigjohn

2 hours ago, Noddy90 said:

Yeah; I think you might be right. Apart from that, what about this for a tale of woe: 

 

On my way to Manchester airport for a flight to Malta. I had a blow-out on the M6 at 4.00am  in Cheshire. While I was waiting for Green Flag, I fell down a concrete maintenance conduit and badly bruised my ribs. When the mechanic arrived, my battery had gone flat so he charged it and then told me the car had gone into limp mode. He asked me to gun the throttle and, when it wouldn't rev past 4000rpm, told me it was unsafe to continue my journey and that he needed to call out recovery to take me home. First I had to be taken off the M6 by another company as I was in roadworks recovery zone. Finally a different bloke from Green Flag stuck me on a trailer and drove me through heavy traffic from Knutsford to Telford. I took the car to a VW specialist who scanned it and told me it WASN'T in limp mode and that the 4000rpm is a perfectly normal function of the rev limiter when in neutral. That wrong diagnosis has cost me my whole fecking holiday! Needless to say, I have been on the phone to Green Flag and am currently awaiting a response. 

 

Did he charge it or use jump leads to start. Mine is clear with a diagram on the battery to connect the negative/earth terminal to a metal part on the car and not the battery terminal

 

He must have charged it because his van was 50 feet away...

1 hour ago, bigjohn said:

Don't bother buying a lottery ticket - it's not your week!

 

My Superb was also supplied with a Spare Wheel kit that didn't have the plastic wheel nut cap removal tool. Invested in one from ebay :-

eg..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-GENUINE-AUDI-VW-SKODA-SEAT-WHEEL-NUT-CAP-REMOVAL-TOOL-8D0012244A-/141453580858

 

 

Good call; just bought one.  I used to have one - don't know where it went...

DSG won't go over 2500rpm in neutral.