Hello all, looking for some advice with my ‘19 Fabia MK3

Recently went on a short drive, only two minutes into the drive I get ABS, ESC, TPMS, Auto Start/Stop, and ParkPilot unavailable warnings. It hasn’t caused me any trouble previously with any of the above, and seems unusual to have them all at once if they were genuine issues.

Is this likely to be electrical? If so is it possible to repair with a good set of spanners please?

Update: I drove this morning and all lights came on again. However I drove this afternoon and none of them came on. Makes me think it may be battery related (I.e voltage dipping below occasionally), rather than something like a speed sensor

Help appreciated

TIA

Low battery charge can cause this. The headlights may seem bright enough and the engine starts easily but the battery can still be in a too low state of charge for the computer and this can cause all sorts of unexpected warning lights an messages, unseen error codes and on to issues.

So fully (to 100%) recharge the battery with an appropriate battery charger maintainer following the instructions for the charger and instructions in the car's 'Owner's Manual'. Best is to use a low and slow charger maintainer, 2, 3, 4 or 5-amps and be patient as it may take many hours. If you can't fully recharge to 100% in one go then do it in two (or three) but get there. Then in future do occassional preventative charges to avoid this or worse in future.

If you don't have your car's 'Owner's Manual' you can download one free from VWŠkoda's manual website. -https://www.skoda-auto.com/apps/manuals/Models

If this doesn't cure your warning lights then let us know.

Good luck.

Preventative charging (-4c winter night, I'm warm and cosy inside not farting about with cars outside, other than taking photo) -

36 minutes ago, nta16 said:

Low battery charge can cause this. The headlights may seem bright enough and the engine starts easily but the battery can still be in a too low state of charge for the computer and this can cause all sorts of unexpected warning lights an messages, unseen error codes and on to issues.

So fully (to 100%) recharge the battery with an appropriate battery charger maintainer following the instructions for the charger and instructions in the car's 'Owner's Manual'. Best is to use a low and slow charger maintainer, 2, 3, 4 or 5-amps and be patient as it may take many hours. If you can't fully recharge to 100% in one go then do it in two (or three) but get there. Then in future do occassional preventative charges to avoid this or worse in future.

If you don't have your car's 'Owner's Manual' you can download one free from VWŠkoda's manual website. -https://www.skoda-auto.com/apps/manuals/Models

If this doesn't cure your warning lights then let us know.

Good luck.

Preventative charging (-4c winter night, I'm warm and cosy inside not farting about with cars outside, other than taking photo) -

Thank you for this. I have access to a trickle charger through work so no harm in trying this.

Someone I spoke with from the garage (not paid for) said it could be a ‘start/stop’ battery rather than the main battery. Is this likely, or does it all root down to the main battery.

Again I will try the main charging first and let you know. Thanks

A 'Stop-Start battery IS the main battery - it is simply an improved design and materials over standard, lead-acid batteries to allow for the added stresses of repeated start cycles.

There are two types of stop-start batteries - EFB or AGM - yours is more likely to be EFB, but check first.

Edited 18 May18 May by Warrior193
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12 hours ago, bm17chy said:

Thank you for this. I have access to a trickle charger through work so no harm in trying this.

Depends on what is meant by trickle charger but assuming it means low amperage then it may take many hours to charge the battery to a decent level and many more to get it to full. In that photo I put up, bearing in mind it was a cold winter's day but I used the "winter" setting on the (4-amp) charger and the battery wasn't low by many car owner standards it took over 15 hours to get to full. Certainly no warning lights or messages and I would fully expect the stop/start to be active when it should but we normally switch it off as routine before driving.

As I put if you can't get it to full in one session then get there in two sessions (or more).

It might be that you have a speed sensor orother issue(s) and a low battery but charging the battery is very easy clean hands work where you're only involved with the car a few minutes at the start (after reading instructions for charger and car) and a few minutes at the end of the charge.

Let us know how you get on and if you want more info or advice.

17 hours ago, Warrior193 said:

A 'Stop-Start battery IS the main battery - it is simply an improved design and materials over standard, lead-acid batteries to allow for the added stresses of repeated start cycles.

There are two types of stop-start batteries - EFB or AGM - yours is more likely to be EFB, but check first.

Thanks. I have swapped the battery out - it was near end of life anyway as was original. However still the lights have reappeared after being cleared with OBD scanner up the garage. Believe it may be the speed sensor now as left with ESC, ABS, TPMS etc.

3 hours ago, bm17chy said:

Thanks. I have swapped the battery out - it was near end of life anyway as was original. However still the lights have reappeared after being cleared with OBD scanner up the garage. Believe it may be the speed sensor now as left with ESC, ABS, TPMS etc.

A DTC scan will identify which wheel if ABS sensor is causing the issue.

18 hours ago, bm17chy said:

I have swapped the battery out - it was near end of life anyway as was original.

Not necessarily, it depends on the life it had but now with a new battery and if you use preventaive charging you could see an even longer life from the new battery even though it's fitted to vehicle with 7-ish years of life and use on the other components, systems and parts.

As put the senor(s) will be easy to identify with a scan tool but bear in mind possibly it might not be that sensor(s) actually at fault but the connections or wiring or other so do check and cross reference the results to confirm it is actually the sensor(s) at fault. If it is a sensor(s) at fault do be careful about fitting just some cheap generic make, it might be good, or good for a time or it might not and these sort of things always involve getting dirty so you (well I) don't want to do the same job once let alone twice.

Good luck, let us know how you get on.

On 18/05/2026 at 16:02, bm17chy said:

I have swapped the battery out

Has the battery been coded to the car?

Thanks. AG Falco