Hi,

Bare with me this problem is drivining me insane.

About 4 months ago I was driving along the snake pass near manchester, i looked down and my 34,000 mile Fabia VRS had cutout. the gauges were all on zero, the engine had no power but the lights remained on. Obviously as I was going about 50mph it was quite scary. I had to turn the ignition off (the lights go off) then start up again. No problems from then on...I thought however that I should take it into a garage to be looked at. They couldnt find any faults and consequently gave me the car back.

The second time it happened was about 3weeks later on the M1, I was lucky that it was late at night and quiet on the road. Exactly the same fault. i took it back to the garage the next day (only starting the engine once since the fault) they still couldnt find any error codes or problem. The car was due to have a full service so i booked it in. I rang Skoda customer services and told them of the problem, they said they couldnt help until it was proved that the car had a fault that was skodas responsibility. I said ok, reluctantly.

got the car back from a full service and It didn't happen again for about a month. Last time it happened was on the M1 in rush hour and nearly crashed as a consequence.

I then rang skoda customer car again. They reluctantly said ok. we'll give u a hire car and take a look at the car. They've had the car at a new skoda garage for over a week now and they've just rang me to say they still can't find a fault with the car and I will need to wait until it happens again and bring it straight in to them without turning the engine off. This just completly baffles me, I don't understand how skoda can give me a car back that is dangerous on the road. I thought maybe you guys may be able to help with the problem. Ive had a few searches and cant find exactly the same problem anywhere.

anyideas?

cheers

I would look in the direction of the fuel cut out which deploys in the event of a crash.

I had this with a tuning box that had a faulty lead - it didnt happen to me whilst driving though - did the ECU not record any errors?

Hi Mate

I know there was a problem at one stage where all battery terminals had to be checked and tightened.

That could mean that the lights would go off though :confused:

But I would say as above with the fuel and with the power they should be able to check the obviouse and go on from there.

I am glad to hear that Skoda UK are behind you on this though.

I have been down the Snake Pass once and hope never to do it again , it is a scary place when your car is fine.

Let us know how you get on

Sarah

It wasn't the vRS but I had temporary cut out problems with a 1.4 16v about 2 years ago. Various things were tried but in the end they replaced part of the wiring loom as it was of the wrong resistance wire.

Before they got to that they also replaced various items including the brake switch (twice), the ABS control unit and pump, the ECU and the Dash Panel Insert.

The wiring loom fix only came about when it did it on the way to the last motor show so I walked onto the Skoda stand and said to the first staff member I met "I'd like to talk to someone about a problematic Fabia".

Good luck with it.

ah ok thanks for that I'm going to pass that on to the garage. cheers

Obvious I know but no-one else mentioned it - is their any muck in the fuel tank or filter?

Sal

Obvious I know but no-one else mentioned it - is their any muck in the fuel tank or filter?

Sal

something like that would throw up a engine code..

How about a dodgy relay... was a common problem on the older octy 110s.

there is one main one that controls the ignition..

Mine was cutting out recently, then wouldn't restart :( Called the AA out 3 times, each time they came the bloody thing started 1st time!!!!!

4th time it didn't luckily, traced to a loose connection on the vaccum distrubutor thing on the strut top, I'd moved it to fit my Strut brace and must've knocked it! The vaccum control the throttle butterfly, no vaccum no throttle!!

Apparantly a remap can also knack them!!!

Replaced under warranty and now all is well!!

i had only had my vrs for 3months and this happend to me, the car was 100% standard. I pulled away from the lights changed to 3rd gear and the car died. i tried restarting it while i was rolling but it didnt work. i had to coast the car to a safe place an stop. i sat there turning the ignition but it just wouldnt start. i took the keys out an sat there wonde3ring why a 3month old car wouldnt start.

popped the keys back in and 'heypresto!' it just started like normal?!?!

hasnt done it since, but needs looking into as it could of caused an accident.

The garage have replaced the Power Relay as a precaution. I'll keep everyone posted if this does actually solve the problem or not.

information on this would be helpfull as my 05 54 reg fab vrs is doing something simlar just seems to turn itself off sometimes when stopped at junctions or pulling away and power seems to be down sometimes,just been for a 10k service and no faults reported. jujst a little embarrasing as everyone thinks youve stalled! always restarts tho.and engine also seems noisyer than usual more pistonslap?