My octavia is very poorly

[Gissin]

So driving down the road, felt a bit Down on power went round a corner it stated stuttering and then cut out and won't start.

Sounds like there's no compression, just wirs away.

Thought its the timing belt but that looks OK and tight..  But the aa said it doesn't sound good...  No codes apart from throttle sensor

 

 

 

[Vegasphil]

My old one did this once. Got towed to a garage and it worked again after they fiddled about with it. Have a search of my previous threads for info. 

 

 

[tonyuk74]

If the throttle flap or anti shudder valve jam closed then there will be no air going in to the cylinders so less compression. Had this happen a few times on the old 1.9 pd engines where there’s been a build up of carbon sludge. Hope it’s a simple fix and not timing belt.  

[Gissin]

So cars been lifted and is now sat at the skoda specialists near my house, egr valve off and very clean, injectors look good and clean and are firing ok, fuel pump seems OK..  New fuel filter in but that looked ok but good to change it any way, fuel lines are not blocked..  Still no codes so the search continues, no debree from the timing belt and still looks OK...  Hopefully it's not expensive as just signed my new mortgage on my new house with the Mrs so feeling the pinch massively 

[Gissin]

thought I'd update on this.

 

She lives!!

New battery was the culprit in the end.. however also tied in with the ECU apparently?! so jump pack did nothing, new battery did nothing then after they played with VCDS  the ECU had gone into a shut down/protection mode and switched everything off ... they said they had never seen this before.

ECU reset and fired straight back up and is running better than ever.

 

£280  including a new MOT  so not bad in the end

 

now where's my keys to my new house!!!

Edited 12 April, 2018 by Gissin