Hello briskodians. It's been a while.

I have a 2011 Octavia 1.4 tai. 150k ISH miles which I've had from new. It's been great.

The EPC light has come on and is not accelerating as it should.

It is our second car, so no major urgency, but I want to get it sorted.

Can anyone make a guess at what it might be please? In my head, I am thinking spark plugs(they have only been changed once probably 10 years ago).. it I am no expert.

Thanks for any responses/ideas

Charlie.

Don't guess - get the stored codes read / properly diagnosed.

4 hours ago, mantrahalos said:

Can anyone make a guess at what it might be please?

NO!

I can tell you that it is a fault that has thrown an EPC code and put the car into limp mode. I'd need fault code(s) to go any further.

11 hours ago, mantrahalos said:

I am thinking spark plugs(they have only been changed once probably 10 years ago)

I think you need to change the plugs anyway as they are well overdue and the tsi's are heavy on them.

I agree get it scanned for codes. Theres a lot of things that can put a car into limp mode from a bad plug to something more sinister like jumped timing. You could be there for days replacing parts etc that are perfectly fine until you find whats wrong. Hopefully its something simple.

Alasdair