Just had my Octavia serviced by the dealership and have noticed that the auto hold brake is intermittently sticking momentarily when I pull off from Stop/Start.  Odd, only does it around 20% of occasions but can notice it as Revs go higher as you press the accelerator before it disengages.  A bit disconcerting as it was just very smooth and consistent before but now when driving, it just feels off on the occasions it happens

 

Obviously will contact the workshop but has anyone else had a similar experience?

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Obviously will contact the workshop but has anyone else had a similar experience?

 

I have**, and the first time it did this (well, the first time I noticed it) the sound was so bad that I thought I'd scratched my (3-month-old) car on the one parked next to it, as I was on my way out of my slot in a car park. At first glance, there seemed to be physical evidence of this -- it was hard to tell just by looking, as the car park was dark -- but it turned out that the marks on my car were simply streaks of sand (the car park was right next to a beach) that had been damp enough to "stick" to the paintwork.

 

I left a note for the other driver, but when he phoned me, he could see nothing wrong with his (hire) car (and the hire car company never got back to me).

 

I ended up assuming that a child's small plastic beachball might have got stuck under the car and been scraped on the road surface... but when, a couple of days later, I heard (much more muted) sounds at the same time as the car was feeling a bit hesitant, and this occurred more than once, I worked out that something must be wrong.

 

I took the car to the local dealer (Hendy Skoda in Bournemouth) and they replaced the auto-hold unit in the centre console. I've not had a problem with it since (touch wood...).

 

 

** - My car is an iV, so the instrument panel wasn't telling me anything about the revs at the time.

Edited 23 September, 20241 yr by DamageLimitation