Hi All,

 

I need your help to know and ask the Skoda people since they are saying just clearing the faults would prevent the failures happening in future after the Diagnostics. The history of the issue is all possible faults are coming up in the dashboard when I turn on the car every other morning.  It prevents me from starting the car. And once the car gets started after several attempts this is not happening during the rest of the day.

 

I have dropped the car for diagnostics in Skoda and they couldn't find a proper root cause of this issue. They are saying that we have cleared all the fault codes and let's see it will happen again. If so we will look deeper into it. Found nothing and charge 150 quid is absolutely not reasonable. Could anyone please help me on this please.

10 minutes ago, Rock_Batista said:

Found nothing and charge 150 quid is absolutely not reasonable.

Get the battery tested, that money would have bought you the new battery to replace the one that is that is probably causing the problems.

 

Do the lights come on when turning on the ignition or when cranking the engine?

 

What lights? You say all of them but that is improbable.

 

Have you recently fitted a dashcam or similar?

I did not do any modifications recently. Skoda is saying the battery is charging perfectly and there is nothing wrong with that and battery health is good. 

The lights are coming when I ignite the engine and it's preventing me to start.

Lights :

1. Gear box faulty. Workshop!

2.  Error : Stabilisation Control (ESC)

3. Error : Tyre Pressure Monitoring System

 

After that I couldn't even ignite the engine. 

Go to a local garage and ask them to check your battery.

If the battery is requiring replacing get the Dealership Principal at the Skoda Garage to have the cost of the diagnosis refunded to you ad that can go towards buying the new battery.

 

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What is your car, is it a 1.6 TDI with a DSG or manual gearbox?

How many miles has it done & how long have you owned it?

Edited 28 September, 20232 yr by toot

2 minutes ago, toot said:

Go to a local garage and ask them to check your battery.

If the battery is requiring replacing get the Dealership Principal at the Skoda Garage to have the cost of the diagnosis refunded to you ad that can go towards buying the new battery.

 

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What is your car, is it a 1.6 TDI with a DSG or manual gearbox?

 Thanks for your response mate. My car is 1.6 TDI DSG (SKODA OCTAVIA MKIII)

4 minutes ago, toot said:

Go to a local garage and ask them to check your battery.

If the battery is requiring replacing get the Dealership Principal at the Skoda Garage to have the cost of the diagnosis refunded to you ad that can go towards buying the new battery.

 

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What is your car, is it a 1.6 TDI with a DSG or manual gearbox?

 

I did check in a local garage before I went to Skoda. They said the battery is in good condition as well. They charged 250 quid and I returned empty handed. 

I would suspect a terminal or connector issue if really the battery is fine.

 

Sadly you are dealing with people who are happy to just take your money.

The issue might be because you have a DSG, a DQ200 DSG.    But just a connection interrupted. 

4 minutes ago, toot said:

I would suspect a terminal or connector issue if really the battery is fine.

 

Sadly you are dealing with people who are happy to just take your money.

The issue might be because you have a DSG, a DQ200 DSG.    But just a connection interrupted. 

 Thank you so much for your response mate.

Could you please let me know does this gonna cost me a fortune again ? 

Only if you can not find a trustworthy place, maybe an Auto Electrician who will want to resolve the issue. 

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Where are you in England, someone can maybe direct you to an honest trader.

1 minute ago, toot said:

Only if you can not find a trustworthy place, maybe an Auto Electrician who will want to resolve the issue. 

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Where are you in England, someone can maybe direct you to an honest trader.

 

I'm in Stevenage 

A quick update from Skoda. They tried to start this morning and they are saying none of the errors have shown up and they can do nothing at the moment. I asked them about the battery healthy. They said it's absolutely fine. I am totally confused !!

Edited 28 September, 20232 yr by Rock_Batista

Could you hear the £150 "Kerching" noise in the background?

You could try an independent Unit18 Automotive near Milton Keynes 

Lets assume that a technician or fitter would not have plugged the car in, read fault codes, opened the bonnet, tightened the battery terminal and that results in the service desk presenting an invoice for £150. 

 

They would never do that obviously.

In what way are they testing the battery to determine it's "healthy"?  A battery charging correctly on 13.6+ volts or sitting there with 12.something volts when not under load is not a response.  When it does crank, does it turn over well or does it labour a bit?  Original battery?  Probably 10 years old if it was installed in the car a few months after manufacture.  Used with stop/start then sat during covid.....

2 hours ago, toot said:

Lets assume that a technician or fitter would not have plugged the car in, read fault codes, opened the bonnet, tightened the battery terminal and that results in the service desk presenting an invoice for £150. 

 

They would never do that obviously.

Is that a double negative?

 

It's the "not" in the first sentence which has confused me.

Don't be too confused.  It is a tongue in cheek post about what some cheeky barstewards would and do do. 

Yes I got the humour 👍I just wondered if there was a deeper joke, the double negative, that went over my head.

On 28/09/2023 at 08:56, Rock_Batista said:

Hi All,

 

I need your help to know and ask the Skoda people since they are saying just clearing the faults would prevent the failures happening in future after the Diagnostics. The history of the issue is all possible faults are coming up in the dashboard when I turn on the car every other morning.  It prevents me from starting the car. And once the car gets started after several attempts this is not happening during the rest of the day.

 

I have dropped the car for diagnostics in Skoda and they couldn't find a proper root cause of this issue. They are saying that we have cleared all the fault codes and let's see it will happen again. If so we will look deeper into it. Found nothing and charge 150 quid is absolutely not reasonable. Could anyone please help me on this please.

UPDATE :

There is a Corrosion found at the grounding wire which comes out from the Engine. When cleared out the Corrosion it works well they're saying. Could anyone please help me to find out is that can be a real reason ? Does this make sense ?

Thanks in Advance.

Sounds like a reasonable possibility.

Thanks mate !