Hello All

I’m new on here, I have recently lost my job and with it went my company car,  so with that I made the sensible decision to buy a reasonable second hand reliable family car in the Skoda Octavia estate 2016 diesel 1.6. 

 

Im am 4 months in and have been really enjoying the car, seems like a nice little runner and nice and spacious for the kids and dogs. 

 

At the weekend I had to accelerate onto the motorway and the coil symbol started flashing on the dash, then shortly after the start stop function came up with an error also?  I didn’t experience any power loss and could drive on as normal. I then parked up Googled the problem - checked brake lights they still worked! Left it for 20mins restarted it and the alert had now gone off. I drove back with no further alerts, the following day also no further alerts. However today I nipped out and it came on again when only mildly accelerating through the gears, I wasn’t 100% sure whether the power was slightly effected in 1st and 2nd gears when moving off, but once I had stopped turned off and restarted the warning light went off again?? 

I popped a OB2 fault reader in this afternoon to see if that showed me any  codes but nothing came up?

so to cut a long story short has anyone experienced this with their Octavia, I really can’t afford a big bill so hoping it’s something minor that can be sorted?

any advice would be welcomed 

thanks 

 

There are many threads on this topic & various solutions.  Here's one such thread,

 

 

The only way forward really is to get the car scanned for historical fault codes and / or get a garage to see if they can replicate the fault while doing the diagnosis.  Cycling the ignition sometimes resets the fault and only triggers the light when it occurs again. Stop start always seems to throw a wobbler when there is another fault on the car, I wouldn't be too concerned about that.

Most likely DPF sensor fault. Best check would be get the DPF app for your mobile and monitor the differential pressure at idl and when you drive. I believe it should be around 5 at idl. If this does show higher number or it is zero, then something is wrong with DPF. Also, checking with ODBII would show the DPF pressure sensor fault. I had a similar fault on a car with similar tdi engine.