Good evening all skoda octavia drivers, I want to share a circumstantial outcome driving my octavia 2011 petrol vrs which I've had since new and well looked after.

Driving home 5pm today on a A road dual carriage way outside lane 75mph overtaking vehicles when a skoda estate decided to pull out into my lane giving me a split second to decide hard brake and stear right as much as allowed before I hit the central. In braking I hit the curb at 2 o'clock, fully locked up, smoke bellowing from all 4 tyres, smell of burning rubber but ovaided contact, hazards on, lights on the dash like a Xmas tree.. but that's not my concern.. the car conked out even though I dropped the clutch, she took 2 starts to get going and everything felt still locked up. Luckily the cars around me managed to stop in time with hazards but it hairy when I have my son in the car. The driving who pulled out nearly swipping me just drove off. Has anyone experienced the same outcome or know what the hell happened? All I have luckily is a scuffed tyre.

Edited 16 December, 202516 Dec by trabolgan
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I may be wrong but the car will have crash sensors that can cut fuel/deploy airbag etc during a colision. Maybe the impact on the kerb with the full on braking has activated the fuel shut off. You could get it scanned as there may well be codes relating to crash sensors stored.

Alasdair

Thanks for the reply. Sounds feasible and worth plugging in vcds to see if any codes appear. Something to do over the weekend along with its annual oil change.

Might be worth getting wheel/tyre/steering etc checked depending on how hard you hit kerb. Hope its just a blip and cars returned to normal.