Hey, 

I wanna share what happened this weekend and today, and maybe it has already happened to anyone else.

When i started my car (MK4 RS almost maxed out trim) saturday afternoon - I got immediate errors, like SOS emergency system fault, lane assist, emergency break, blind zone assist, exit assist, start stop, ebrake, ACC and most important - airbag error (whole christmas tree just lit up my dash). 
I tried to reboot infotainment, reboot a car - nothing helped. 
The car itself drove fine, DCC worked, bluetooth and carplay worked fine. 
I though maybe its a temporary error as it happened before that i got SOS button error which cleared itself in 5minutes - but today was forth day that all errors were present. 

I went to the Skoda dealership for diagnostics and they did not find what can cause a problem as they had many many error codes on their screen and said that they do not know where to start. They suggested clearing all the errors and if any pop up, call them imemdiatly. 

After one more hour guy from the dealership came back and said that they cannot erase Airbag error and that its most likely Airbag controller block that is faulty and cause all of this and said that they cannot give my car bag for safety reasons and will order the part. 
Waiting time they said will be maximum 1week until its fixed (knowing that there are logistics issues everywhere i doubt that....). 

Also they offered a replacement car which is a joke compared to what I gave them to fix (its manual, no parktronics nothing, maximum basic, only bluetooth there). So now I am stuck with oldschool and waiting for my RS to be fixed.. 

Maybe anyone got this issue and solved it by changing airbag module ? What were the lead times ? 

Thanks!

Why can't they switch one from one of their showroom cars or second hand cars? At least it would test and prove it one way or the other....

I have had the Airbag warning (caused during wiring car-phone kit where they disconnected the passenger Airbag connector for safety) mine did not trigger any other error codes and was easily cleared by VCDS. 

Having said all of that absolutely nothing surprises me anymore with Mk4 software problems, I am amazed the car actually runs!! 😬

Welcome to firmware update hell! Got my car in April 2021. Loads of random errors all over the place and alarm going off randomly. Turns out everything is a firmware update fix. Cars been in about 6 times for updates, now my garage says they have to charge for a courtesy car! 

 

10 months later and I'm still getting random errors on startup and now the adaptive cruise control will randomly slam the brakes on when overtaking!

 

The garage say they are fed up of all the software faults on the latest models and it makes them look bad as they can't fix issues until Skoda release a firmware update.  

Hi guys,

 

Few days ago I had the same problem. When I started ignition, I've got several errors. Airbag, lane assist, start stop, auto hold, SOS, tyre pressus, ESC. I disconnected battery for few minutes and then I went to drive, all errors are gone except Airbag. I went to local garage to clear it but unsuccessfully. It showed airbag unit fault. I must go to Skoda dealer to check that. I found on this forum that could be problem with Airbag control module.  If is the problem with that, this will cost me €1000+. Car is out of warranty and Ireland doesn't have an option to buy extended warranty after 3 years

Edited 2 May, 20242 yr by Paux