Hi guys (and girls). I have an Octavia VRS 02 plate with 37000 on the clock. I bought it at 35k and had no issues with it. Since this time it has developed a bit of a start up fault. For some reason it has a kind of stutter/misfire when first cold started in the mornings or a break. It goes on for a minuite then seems to go as the car is driven, by the end of the road it's almost gone. When warm occasionally it will slightly hesitate when rolling the power on, just a very quick kind of judder then it's over. I have been told these cars suffer from intermittant breakdown in the coil packs and it has just had a service where they couldn't detect the problem cause. The garage said they would require the car from cold in order to diagnose the problem. This kind of sucks as they are 35 miles away and I would need to train it there and back.

The second problem is a little more of a sod. I took the car in for it's 40k service, it needed a new anti roll bar at the front as it had a cracking sound from underneth when hitting a bump. This solved it no worries, I also requested them to check out a squeal from the NS rear brake disc. The garage diagnosed a wear lip on the discs and promptly replaced them claiming they fixed it. Sure enough the car was fine, until now 120 miles later. The squeal is no where near as bad now but is still reaqlly annoying, even more anoying that I threw a good set of discs away for no reason it may seem.

Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Matt.

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Cool, I will take a look at the pads at the weekend. I would have thought that they would have looked at that when it was serviced considering how much I spent.

I have just found a set of the coils to try and replace them. This is really the boring bit now. Mine are reference 06B 905 115L, the ones I have found are 06A 905 115A. Has anybody got any idea if these will shag the car if I put them on. All the numbers seem to match and they came from a 52 plate 180bhp Leon Cupra which has the same engine and power as my car. Any help would be appreciated.

I have just found a set of the coils to try and replace them. This is really the boring bit now. Mine are reference 06B 905 115L, the ones I have found are 06A 905 115A. Has anybody got any idea if these will shag the car if I put them on. All the numbers seem to match and they came from a 52 plate 180bhp Leon Cupra which has the same engine and power as my car. Any help would be appreciated.

The L version is the latest one for your car and is what should be fitted. I would borrow or buy another L version - or even an H or J - for fault-finding rather than fit a set of (older) coilpacks from another model.

There are a number of things which I am still trying to try to sort out my stutter problem which is exactly the same as you are experiencing

Coil Packs

Lazy MAF

Dirty plenum

The skoda garage I took mine to said the MAF was fine & the plenum too but I dont believe them.

I'll keep you posted as long as you keep me posted too. Hopefully between us we'll get it resolved

Hi matt,i feel your pain,I have exactly the same problems you are having,mine has been back to the the dealers for the brakes squealing about 7 times now and they have still not resolved it,they have replaced the discs,pads and calipers noise has gone for a day and then returns,funny thing it only does it in reverse .I have given up on that issue.as for the hesitation problem still persists ,I just know if i take it into the dealer they are probably going to say they cant find anything wrong,Ive seen one artical on the forum that this problem only happens to vrs owners that do alot of town driving,its got something to do with dirt build up in the throttle body and the DV malfuctions

Hi about the squeal in reverse. I just bought my 05 octy vRS couple of weeks bac and ion the service book I noticed a receipt for rear brake upgrade. When at the dealers i asked them about it and they told me of the problem yr describing and this upgrade is too stop this frm happening, they said it still does it on the odd few but usually sorts it. Mayb sumet to look at???

DV means dump valve, I replaced mine with a new forge 007 and the dam thing still splutters. I too feel the pain!

thanks for the input,my car is going in on the 15 aug for the hesitation problem I will give some feed back on what they find wrong hopefully they do find something,im going to mention the rear brake upgrade and see if they are fimilar about it.

In my limited experience of failing coil packs, when they are failing the car plays up no matter what temperature the cars at.

Your cold start might be something wrong with the warm up process, the cars are designed to get the cat hot as quick as possible to reduce emissions hence they throw in a lot of fuel when cold, have you ever watched your mpg read out when the cars cold

If you havent changed the plugs it might be these, IIRC they are changed at 40000, yours might just be getting a bit tired & the extra fuel might be washing away the spark

Hi, i've recently started to get the stuttering problem... (had a remap a month ago and shortley after fitted a Bailey DV30).

What was more worrying was; the other day when i put my foot down on the motorway after doing about 13 miles and felt like it was driving a 1.2l. Total loss of power, turbo was still spooling and DV made light noise... Has my air flow meter buggered up?

In addition to the above, my Vrs is going in on the 16th Aug for it's 40000 mile service, should i remove evidence of the induction kit as i feel this might have contributed to any breakage?

Lads, the MAF on mine has been replaced which cured the problem with the splutter.

On reflection, it's worth cleaning the little focker with break cleaner once in a while.

In addition to the above, my Vrs is going in on the 16th Aug for it's 40000 mile service, should i remove evidence of the induction kit as i feel this might have contributed to any breakage?

Plugs are changed at 40000, interesting to see if that helps ?