Started my 12 plate Octavia diesel this am, drove 40metres started to stutter and cutout,wouldn’t restart

Parked for couple of hours and with a lot of winding on starter and strong smell of diesel it started, seems ok now, no lights on dash 

Is this possibly related toEGR at all??

 

Quite likely to be the EGR stuck open.

 

If it fails again, block off the EGR pipe & try starting again.

Cheers for your reply

Skoda Assist sent a Skoda Tech out and we discussed issues, then he connected his laptop and checked all the various sensors,temps, and working parameters and talked me through it all as he carried out checks,very much appreciated,all absolutely fine except EGR is registering values a gnats away from upper limits meaning any slight peak raises the fault and the problem I suffered

New EGR fitted today at Independent garage and all will be ok