Suddenly our the engine in our car could not keep itself alive for more than ~5 seconds.

When starting it, it was harder to start than usual, idling was unstable, no response to throttle and after a short time the engine stops (see video).

So we had to leave the car on the parking lot.

When I picked it up the day after, all problems has disappeared and I could drive home in the car!?

So I am quite puzzled about this.

I had it checked for faults using VCDS, but there are none.
The car in question is a Skoda Superb from 2010 with the 1.8 TSI engine.

Anyone who has an idea of what the root cause could be?

Edited 11 April, 20251 yr by sriis

Is the issue not related to this.

Good point!
Could that be the case? The fuel-smell has been there since last year and the car has never behaved like in the video before.