No engine lights 😊
Sluggish uphill performance 🥲
Worsens when going higher 🥲
Perfect during normal driving 😊
Driving in automatic mode 🚙

Welcome.    An early vRS so tell more.  How many miles has it done,?  Is it still with the engine it left the factory with?  Is it all good service wise.  Good spark plugs, clean air filter, running E5 super unleaded? Brakes serviced, tyre pressures correct?     How long have you had the car?     Is it maybe the DSG that is the issue?   What about in S, does it get any more of a move on, or if you drop a gear or 2 in manual mode?   How high are you going.  Like up the Cairn o mount or Lecht in Scotland or just a road in England,? 

Elaborated one: The 2010 Skoda Fabia VRS Automatic becomes sluggish when going uphill because the gears shift down too quickly, which slows the vehicle during the climb. Additionally, if I switch to manual mode and then drive, the gears automatically revert to automatic mode, which causes even more sluggishness. The car has covered almost 74,000 miles. I have serviced the car, and there have been no warnings except for some tyre pressure issues. I faced this while driving through the Peak District.

What did you do in the way of servicing.   Is it a clean air filter, a standard one. When were the plugs changed?  Is it super unleaded you use?   When did you get the car and has it been like this since you got it.  Good that the DSG ignores you if you go for to high a gear, but normally it will go to low heads and get the turbo and supercharger working.   Together.   Do you know how the engine does work and at what RPM.      Is the car standard. No tuning box fitted or remapped? 

I'm wondering if your terminology is correct - you say the vehicle 'becomes sluggish when going uphill because the DSG shifts down too quickly" - Do you really mean that the DSG does not shift-down quickly enough? 

Something is wrong because a healthy twincharger can blast up Hardknott pass.  Even cocking a rear wheel. 

 

EDIT.

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/fabia-vrs-extreme-drive

 

 

Do not Punch the TC, hold it a few seconds.  

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GOz6UsJO9mY  Maybe worth a watch.  He has errors. No Front Fog Lights.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 22 May, 20242 yr by Ootohere