Bought June 26, manufactured march 24

Has had 3 episodes of the well documented (I have now found), the intermittent fault which causes limp mode. Still in warranty went to have fault diagnosed, no code so no repair. Only way to get it sorted is to drive in limp mode in traffic or on fast roads to service centre! Leave running there.(Not recorded on car history) .Not an answer! Dangerous!

Anyway just wondering if anyone has succeeded in fixing the problem.

Thank you

Welcome to the forum. Best say what car, what miles, what engine it has. So is it a petrol engine? Has it been serviced yet? EDIT, I see, 1.0 Fabia. So a TSI or is it a MPI? . Best have a different dealership deal with the issue. a very obvious Warranty issue, Spark Plugs, Turbo Accuator, Software issue or what ever. A Mod can move this to the Fabia Mk4 section.

Edited 8 October8 Oct by Evolution13

Three questions -

What warning indicators (if any) light up on instrument cluster when this fault happens ?

Do you get any engine misfiring immediately before the fault happens ?

Does the fault only appear when you accelerate hard ?

There is a strong possibility that your warranty provider may not be telling you the truth about there being 'No faults' (DTC codes) recorded - AFAIK, anything that causes the ECU to go into limp mode will flag a DTC - which they should be able read on the equipment they have available.

TSI,s can have misfires that might not log because not enough in a cycle. Back with Mk2 Fabia vRS there could be 'Limp mode' and not logged in the codes. @Sklinda Is it a 1.0 TSI or a MPI?

Edited Tuesday at 17:095 days by Evolution13

I sought help from citizens advice and write a letter describing the problems to the overall Company and setting out my rights and what the law requires.

I received a reply saying that they will take the car, leave me with a courtesy car, and give the car a run around and basically sort out the problem....to we will see!!

It's an MPI

I've posted about this in two threads (look up breakdowns) but it is still being raised. Do not ignore the situation or accept a dealerships insistence that there's no fault showing so nothing to be fixed. Our 2023 Fabia mc had this issue and we got nowhere with getting it sorted despite it being likely to result in a fatal accident.

The local dealer has a service department which they said is state of the art and has a full team of Skoda certified staff, but I never saw it. Customers are corralled in a comfortable seating area. I suspect their tech staff are fine carrying out a service where they follow a checklist but if you complain about an issue and no fault shows they are not really interested or trained to handle the situation in a customer friendly way.

The first time the car was taken to the dealer the AA had cleared the fault which means the car retains no trace of the problem.  Despite the AA saying that it was throttle body related which was backed up by a photo of what showed on their equipment the service manager said the car should have been taken to the dealership on a low loader with the fault showing because the dealerships electronic equipment was not compatible with that of the AA.

I’ll give Johnson's Skoda's service manager credit for having the car in later on and trying but failing to get to the bottom of the matter.  He was very upset because the dealership lost money over this. Skoda won’t pay the dealership for work in such a situation. They might even have insisted we pay for this farce but fortunately that didn’t happen.

The only way we got through this was through the AA breakdown service when the issue occurred. By then, we’d learned about the AA “silver service” vans. These are manned by experienced staff fully trained for VAG group vehicles like Skodas who have all the necessary software on laptops. I’d go for this option even if you have to sign up for the AA to get a silver service vehicles to attend.

The van – yes it was silver coloured - came to the house after the wife limped home in the Fabia at about 12mph. It turned out that a software update came out in summer 2024 specifically to fix this issue on our model. He knew from the off what the problem was and took half an hour to update the car. He said the problem would not recur. The Skoda dealer’s service department knew nothing about the update. Battery levels are not the cause because we replaced ours before the last limp breakdown and the technician said it was unconnected.

I’m horrified that Skoda and dealerships are still getting away with the no fault so no fix strategy.  It ruined the enjoyment of the car for us and because we are quite old, we began to think it must be us doing something wrong. It has been a very unsettling situation. I am not optimistic about you getting this sorted by Skoda without raising a huge fuss and being prepared to take legal action.

A comprehensive list of available engine management software updates for Skoda cars would be a valuable resource for Skoda owners.  Dealerships like the one we bought our new car from could use it for such situations too, because they are not up to speed or confidence inspiring.

Good luck.

Thank you what a palaver!

Mine is a mark 4 I believe. It's still got Skoda warranty until March 27.

I have not accepted this, I am not being fobbed off. Guess what though, I wrote a letter as advised by Citizens advice who gave me a template to start and my rights from the 2015 consumer act, so if bought the car between 30 days and 6 months I give them 1 chance at repair and if it fails I'm entitled to a replacement.

I addressed my letter to the CEO of the motor group and lo and behold got a call the next day, and the following day a call to book the car in this wednesday! They had 14 days to reply but someone got a boot up the you know where!😅

So to anyone, do not give up, persistence and knowledge of the law go far!

I mean obviously I'm not there yet but I feel that I will be.....

Surely it's in Skoda's interest get this avoided during manufacture. It's all over the internet from way back. The trouble is you take the car as it is and no dealer will admit to being aware of the fault. I'm happy to settle for a Kia or a Mazda as that is what the dealer sells primarily .Mine was a trade in.....I wonder why!!

My son works as an accident estimator for VW and looked at it soon after I had it, he thought it had a small prang around the left bumper/number plate. I also discovered that they had put new plates on and put the wrong reg. by one digit! So they were very humble about that!! Imagine if I had been stopped!?!

My opinion of dealerships, particularly salesmen has not improved with this experience!!

They are billy b**sh**rs!