Hello all,

 

Last night I went for a leisurely drive, all was fine for about 2 miles. Then, upon passing a set of traffic lights... I lost all drive, I look up at the gear indicator flashing... So I scan with my Carista tool.

It's not moving at all, at this point I call the RAC and wait for them to arrive... He comes, scans the codes and tells me it's the clutch solenoid. I had been given the codes to google for myself, and it also mentioning a control unit of some sort?  

I paid £1175 for this car, it appears to have electrical issues also... (at the time of purchasing, none of these faults were present at all)

 

I guess, I am asking scrap or fix? As I'm seeing possible repair cost upwards of 2k for a car of a 155000 miles on, I wouldn't be able to afford that kind of cost.

 

Thanks,

Daz

Just now, SkodaNovice24 said:

Hello all,

 

Last night I went for a leisurely drive, all was fine for about 2 miles. Then, upon passing a set of traffic lights... I lost all drive, I look up at the gear indicator flashing... So I scan with my Carista tool.

It's not moving at all, at this point I call the RAC and wait for them to arrive... He comes, scans the codes and tells me it's the clutch solenoid. I had been given the codes to google for myself, and it also mentioning a control unit of some sort?  

I paid £1175 for this car, it appears to have electrical issues also... (at the time of purchasing, none of these faults were present at all)

 

I guess, I am asking scrap or fix? As I'm seeing possible repair cost upwards of 2k for a car of a 155000 miles on, I wouldn't be able to afford that kind of cost.

 

Thanks,

Daz

Should've mentioned, at first I saw a code for clutch position sensor. It also goes in drive, will drive forward but very jerky. Also, I get no reverse

It's possibly the fairly common issue of the accumulator cracking. It then looses hydraulic pressure and the solenoid can't work properly.

 

There's a relatively cheap repair kit available.

12 hours ago, Phil-E said:

It's possibly the fairly common issue of the accumulator cracking. It then looses hydraulic pressure and the solenoid can't work properly.

 

There's a relatively cheap repair kit available.

Hello Phil-E, I think I've seen the repair kit you mentioned. Do you happen to know how many hours labour this will be?