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?

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

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.

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

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

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!