Hi, yesterday morning I drove up to Stafford from Exmoor no issues whatsoever, however this morning driving back with my elderly mum on board we broke down at Bridgwater, as I was driving up the off slip the engine appeared to flutter slightly for a couple of seconds then all seemed fine, I assumed it was possibly the road surface, however got about 1 mile off the motorway and the EPC light came on and also the engine light and it was popping and spluttering so I rolled off the road and switched off, I thought it felt like the coil packs had failed, the roadside assistance arrived quickly ( green flag ) plugged in the car and he said it looks to be that 2 coil packs have failed, he unplugged the middle and right one as you stand in front of the car looking under the bonnet and it made no difference with the engine running but shaking badly but when he removed the 3rd one the engine stopped, I’ve got 3 brand new coil packs at home so he brought us home and I replaced all 3 but it’s made no difference whatsoever, I’m going to get 3 new plugs tomorrow, does anyone have any other ideas as to what could be the issue please, the car is a 2022 ( sept 1st ) 1.0tsi 95hp with 29000 miles on the clock and a full Skoda service history that we’ve owned since new. Cheers Paul

By 'the 3rd one' (when removing the suspect coil packs) do you mean cylinder 1? I.e. the cylinder at the timing belt end of the engine.

What were the DTCs recorded that the breakdown tech found?

Very possibly failed spark plug/s.

Hopefully replacing the plugs will fix it - check very carefully that none of the tips of the old plugs have detached and fallen inside the cylinder.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Warrior193
correction

Hi Warrior193, apologies yes cylinder 1, the plugs all look intact, the plugs in cylinder 2 and 3 were wet, my neighbour is a mobile mechanic he is ordering the plugs first thing in the morning and he said he’ll plug it in when we get back from a family members funeral tomorrow afternoon, we’ve hired a car for the day tomorrow 🙄 cheers Paul

The recovery guy didn’t give me the DTC’s but he said there were a lot of things flagging up, just to say we have never had any engine issues whatsoever before, only the heater fan issue that I resolved earlier in the year cheers Paul

Maybe failing crank sensor. Seems odd that two/three plugs or coil packs have failed at same time although I have read that failing plugs can take out coil packs . If the gap is to large then the coil packs have to work harder and can burn out. Hopefully new plugs will cure it and once its plugged into diagnostic maybe clear any historical fault codes and then run engine and scan again.

Alasdair