Stop start woes

[fabiamk2]

I bought a skoda fabia 2012 1.2 diesel yesterday. 70000 miles and good history.

 

During test drive the stop start was working fine. Gave the car a 30 mile drove home and all fine.

 

It is now showing a stop/start error message on the dash when I start it up. I don't care about stop start but I'm worried this might be the start of a bigger problem. It drives fine otherwise.

 

The car was bought private with no warranty etc. I would think it might be a poor battery but issue only raised after a long drive which should have charged it?

 

Anyone got any advice?

[fabiamk2]

Forgot to say: Put an obd2 scanner to it and showed no errors

[Jocko]

Stop Start systems are notorious in that they need everything perfect before they work, certainly in Honda, which I owned before my Skoda. Outside temperature affects them as does the battery voltage and what you have running (heated seats /demister etc). Someone will probably be along with more VAG specific information but I certainly wouldn't be worried it it was my car, which thankfully does not have Stop Start.

[sepulchrave]

Almost certainly needs a new battery if it's the original unit.

[fabiamk2]

Just updating this incase anyone else find this fault.

 

Took car to battery specialist who said the battery was knackered. Got a new battery but the error code persisted on startup and stop start didnt work.

 

Went back the next day and they did a full fault diagnostic scan and wiped all the faults and now it's no longer showing the fault code.

 

So get a new battery but make sure they wipe all the codes after the new battery is installed. 

 

Thanks to those who replied

[sepulchrave]

They were supposed to adapt the new battery, I'm surprised they didn't know this and let you go without doing it until you complained.

 

Specialist indeed!