Well, shattering my so far unblemished reliabilty illusion with Skoda, my new vRS has gone back to the dealer today. :(

The car is fantastic in every way, apart from it cuts out at 5500 rpm, 3rd gear upwards. Intermittent power loss, then surges onwards, then power loss. I'm guessing maf sensor, or coil pack, and it gets worse when the engine gets warmer. Hopefully not a repeat of my Citroen, with a new coil pack every month.

I'll let you know the outcome later today.

When the a coil went on my Renault, it just completely stopped the sparkplug from firing on the affected cylinder, so I'm not sure it'd be the cause of the problems you described. AFAIK, that's all the coils do - they step up the voltage in the ignition circuits for the sparkplugs to work, so failures tend to be of the total death variety, rather than an intermittent fault.

MAF sounds more likely, although fingers crossed it's not the ECU :(

How disappointing.

Fingers crossed it gets fixed asap. I'd be hoping for a good will gesture such as a free service too

Feel for ya pal.

And over 5500rpm... Running it in properly then!

How disappointing.

Fingers crossed it gets fixed asap. I'd be hoping for a good will gesture such as a free service too

Feel for ya pal.

And over 5500rpm... Running it in properly then!

Minor glitch, but yes, disappointing.

5500 in 6th is 150 mph by the way. *

*mathematically calculated - of course.

Running it in nicely then.

Hope this doesn't affect the next planned little "event" for it?

Minor glitch' date=' but yes, disappointing.

5500 in 6th is 150 mph by the way. *

*mathematically calculated - of course.[/quote']

Paah... 5500 is probably close to 180 for a "old style" fabia RS :P

Lemme know if you're able to hit those revs on the PD though :P :P

Well, if the same box could be bolted on to a 1.8T...

Sorry to hear of the problems Dave, hopefully it will all be sorted painlessly and quickly.

Dont over rev the car to much though, you will write a fault code the ecu that reads "Engine revs exceeded, warranrty void".

Sorry to hear of the problems Dave' date=' hopefully it will all be sorted painlessly and quickly.

Dont over rev the car to much though, you will write a fault code the ecu that reads "Engine revs exceeded, warranrty void".[/quote']

:eek: + :eek:

fingers crossed it's not the ECU :(

hmmm me too

And over 5500rpm... Running it in properly then!

oh yeah' date=' nearly made my cry that trip up beacon fell....brand new car!! :orb_sad: :orb_blue:

Dont over rev the car to much though, you will write a fault code the ecu that reads "Engine revs exceeded, warranrty void".

hahaha!! two days old and out of warranty already!

it is very beautiful though and I want it. think it'd like me more cos I'd be nice to it and not abuse it! :P

:eek: Feel for you Dave, must be a real disappointment to be separated from her already :hug:

Not good - let's hope it's only a minor glitch.

So what have they given you as a loan car. Fabia SDi?

Sorry to hear of the problems Dave' date=' hopefully it will all be sorted painlessly and quickly.

Dont over rev the car to much though, you will write a fault code the ecu that reads "Engine revs exceeded, warranrty void".[/quote']

I'm not sure about this...

But to be safe, I always clear any fault codes just before service time!

Any update Dave?

Thats a shame, is dissapointing to have a problem with new car - esp 1 day old.

It's also VERY embarrasing for the dealers, out of interest how many miles had the car done when you collected it ??

The whole idea of PDI is to remove this type of fault, from Audi's point of view the engine has to be revved to the limiter(once fully warm of course) to ensure A)it gets there! and the limiter is working(never had one not !) also we would normally do at least 10-15 miles for PDI roadtest, with sports models having more like 25-30.

Hopefully will be a fairly painless problem, we had a similar problem once - turned out whoever had installed the MAF at the factory had not removed the plastic cap and it had been sucked into the intake :eek: - luckily it jammed in the pipe!

out of interest how many miles had the car done when you collected it ??

I think it had done about 7' date=' but the interesting thing is how many it had done when he took it back! :rofl: :rofl: [/color']

out of interest how many miles had the car done when you collected it ??

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I think it had done about 7' date=' but the interesting thing is how many it had done when he took it back! :rofl: :rofl: [/color']

I hate to say it - but if it was as low as 7 they plainly have not roadtested the vehicle prior to delivery - and frankly that's not acceptable.

I would expect it to have at least that when it came off the delivery transporter, and can be more.

Well at least Dave got to do some miles in it before having to take it in, and at least under its own steam as well

Quite often our new cars have 3-5 miles on them when they come in. Our PDi road test route is just over 5 miles.

I thought dealers could re-set the mileage to 0 so long as the car had not gone over x miles?

I thought dealers could re-set the mileage to 0 so long as the car had not gone over x miles?

That used to be possible, it was allowed upto 100 miles - however certainly from Audi's view (don't know about Skoda,Lummox ??) it's a VERY big no no,

In fact if Audi were to find a dealer doing this they would quite happily involve the Police in bring a prosecution for clocking !! -- and quite right too, we had a guy bring a car to us the other day, dashpod had failed - was not displaying anything - date/time/mileage, want's us to replace the pod - tells me "I've kept a log of all my journeys since it failed - so the mileage is 38,577 miles"

When we checked the car with our diagnostic machine the car had actually done nearly 50,000 miles !!!! - he didnt realise that the mileage was still recorded although it wasnt being displayed!!

Yep we were told in no uncertain terms not to reset the clocks to 0 (could do it upto 50 miles twice) as it was in breech of some law or another.

Well, the dealer had my car all day, and as it happened, some high ranking skoda technical guru was around today. Between them, and him, they managed to find a fault code suggesting the boost valve was faulty, but need Skoda Technical from Czech to tell them what to do about it- because, they have no literature on the 2.0 fsi t in the workshop, and nobody knows how to remedy the problem.

I'm astounded, not at my dealer, but at Skoda, for selling a car, with an engine in that they know nothing about.

WTF is that all about?

I have my car back, still with intermittant boost, until someone somewhere can shed some light on it.

I'm not particularly happy if i'm honest.

Not at the fact there is a fault, as these things happen, and no anger toward the dealer, as they are being as helpful as possible.

Anyway, just so you know, that even with intermittant boost, I still mullered a 55 plate, and an 06 plate focus st this evening. So all is not lost.

Well' date=' the dealer had my car all day, and as it happened, some high ranking skoda technical guru was around today. Between them, and him, they managed to find a fault code suggesting the boost valve was faulty, but need Skoda Technical from Czech to tell them what to do about it- because, they have no literature on the 2.0 fsi t in the workshop, and nobody knows how to remedy the problem.

I'm astounded, not at my dealer, but at Skoda, for selling a car, with an engine in that they know nothing about.

WTF is that all about?

I have my car back, still with intermittant boost, until someone somewhere can shed some light on it.

I'm not particularly happy if i'm honest.

Not at the fact there is a fault, as these things happen, and no anger toward the dealer, as they are being as helpful as possible.

Anyway, just so you know, that even with intermittant boost, I still mullered a 55 plate, and an 06 plate focus st this evening. So all is not lost.[/quote']

:eek: They've put you back in your car !!!! - WTF is that about - wheres there demo ?????

They don't know about 2.0TFSi - well surely Skoda tech can speak to VW or Audi, who've been using the engine for a while ????

There is no way I would have accepted my car back like that -- I can' t believe they think thats acceptable.

Get yourself on to Skoda CC -- even if its only to log a complaint -- might be worth talking to local trading standards with a view to having the ammo ready - just in case.

I have to say I'm astounded with the way you've been treated, and if anything like this happens with mine -- they'll have a VERY low mileage example for sale on their forcourt --- it just is not acceptable.

I really feel for you on this Dave, I know how dissapointed you must be feeling,hope it gets sorted quickly for you

True enough that as yet we dont have any literature on the turbo FSi. And if it is a boost valve fault then the DV is now part of the turbo and as yet no availabe seperately (or so I was told).

It is odd that they stuck you back in the car though, as this fault 'could' get worse and lead to a breakdown situation. But if they are like us then they dont have a huge pool of cars to play with to give out to customers in these kind of events. Glad your understanding about the dealer though Dave, it is tough sometimes trying to please customers when you dont know the product all that well as its all new. And excuse me for playing devils advocate but plenty of people are ready to slag off dealers and there isnt really anyone on here that will give a dealers point of view.

I agree, it's not the dealers fault they have not been given the information, and coming from a dealers point of view myself I am fully aware of the number of vehicles, but as youd said Ross - this fault "May" have the potential to become a breakdown, and as the car is so new you would & should expect to at least be offered some form of alternate car - even if not a vRS.

And really this should be Skoda - if tech are involved and they can't help then the loan vehicle should come from Skoda.

Skoda really need to take a look at themselves, how can they expect a dealership to be able to repair a fault if they are not given the info to do so ????

Oh and yes the DV is part of the Turbo :eek: