In Scotland on holiday.

Taking the wife and her sisters to bingo the car's glow plug symbol starts to flash and it is in limp mode. Stop the car and restarted and problem disappeared for a minute then returned. After two attempts the management light came on. 

Have put a call out to the nearest guy (wilson323f) to scan (my VCDS is at home😪).

Have the throttle body done five weeks ago but that only brought the management light on.

Any pointers greatfully accepted.

 

Edited 8 June, 20197 yr by Danny 57

Well the problem was the egr valve which seems to have cleared it's self. Today's all power available and no flashing glow plug symbol. Later on the management light also went out.

A big thank you to "Jaspire" for taking the trouble to scan the car to show what we found.

Glow plug light has started flashing and reduced power again. Not sure what to do now. Can't scan at the moment now either.🙁

Edited 13 June, 20197 yr by Danny 57

New EGR valve required, a very common problem.

 

Have you had the EA189 emission fix applied to your car within the last two years / 160,000 miles?

 

If so then Skoda will replace the EGR for free (over £1,000) under their trust building measure...

 

https://www.skoda.co.uk/owners/ea198-trust-building-measure

Thank you for he response Silver 1011.

Sadly it was two years ago last August and I have just had the throttle body stripped, cleaned and put back together but because I registered that last September they did that free of charge. 

Will ring the dealers tomorrow to see what happens but I am in Scotland on holiday so still have to get home which might be curtisey of the RAC.

 

is it safe to drive albeit in reduced power.

Edited 13 June, 20197 yr by Danny 57

The EGR valve doesn't fail overnight, its deterioration is progressive.

 

I'd be trying my hardest to convince your dealer and/or Skoda UK Customer Services that the EGR should have been replaced when the throttle body was stripped and cleaned.

 

You might get lucky and at least get a sizeable chunk of goodwill?

I will push for that and I do have a very good dealer that has been very supportive, thank you.

Just driven over 400 miles in "limp" mode and it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Could do 60-70 on the flat, 80plus downhill but the speed would soon scrub off on any incline and there are quite a few of those between Loch Lomond and South Wales. Down to 45 on some parts.

No cruise so all foot peddle all the way. Did note that the "best" (Brian the snail) acceleration was on the first inch of peddle travel and no matter what you did to the peddle the mpg instantaneous vale did not change until the level changed.

Learnt to be a much better judge on extreme distance needed to accelerate  and trying to judge/guess when people would pull out.

Left many a driver bemused when overtaking only to wonder why could not make it pass and would then pull in behind them.