Hi Skoda fabia owners, last year i bought a new Skoda fabia from Skoda heritage Gloucester, this was my third new fabia i have bought from them.

On the same day i collected the car myself and my family went on a sort mini break and we had just got of the m5 junction 24 when the Emissions Control Light came on we managed to get to Yeovil where we was staying. Next day the light would come on and then go home.

We decided to keep the millage as low as possible and when Arriving home i took it straight to the dealer.

They took it inside the workshop and when it was returned to me i was told it just need re setting and there should be no further issues.

In February this year i had just picked up my sons from school when this light came on and also the EPC Light.

I took it next day to the dealership when they had a quick look and reset the settings. This was o.k for a few days but the following Monday this happened 5 times on the estate i live on and i then took the car to the dealership. A couple of days later the dealership phoned to ask if i had put any additives in the car petrol which i had not, i went to the dealership where i was shown the fuel rail from my car which had what they claimed to be an unknown liquid. Two days later they phoned to say to contact my insurance company and claim a miss fuel. I had the previous 5 weeks fuel receipts (all from Tesco apart from one from Sainsburys) which said i had bought unleaded which is the correct fuel from my car. A week later i collected the car and have not had any issues until last Wednesday when the problem started to occur again. I cannot go round a corner at an average speed or go over a sleeping policeman when the problem occurs. I turn the ignition off and switch the car back on and both light which had come on is now out and the car is back to normal and goes like it should. When the lights come on the car goes into limp mode and starts to stutter.

Has anyone else on the forum had the same problem or know the actual cause could be. Any help and advice would be most helpfull. Best Regards Andrew 

 

 

58 minutes ago, andrew-carpenter said:

i went to the dealership where i was shown the fuel rail from my car which had what they claimed to be an unknown liquid.

How did they determine this?

Hi, welcome.

 

Surely a miss-fuel would be where either you had put the wrong fuel in the car (I done that once) or the pump had the wrong fuel delivered from it and yours was the one and only or one of very few vehicles to do so before that pump(s) and any others were shut down otherwise it'd surely be local news, I can't imagine too many keeping quiet if they thought Tesco or Sainsburys were selling duff fuel (more likely a load of duff old cars and their owners rushing to fuel there).

 

If you know anyone with an appropriate level scan tool also appropriate to your model and year car and they keep the program for your car and model up to date you/they could plug it in and get a full report and see what else it might show as often many are too lazy to clear everything.

 

Briskoda members that offer their scan tools, some for beer tokens, a few professionally, you could see if there are any that are close and have the program for your model and year. - Briskoda VCDS Owners Map (click me)

 

Later as another subject it'd be interesting to know about which previous new Fabias you had and how you found they compare to each other.