I was going to the shopping centre in my 3 month old 130PD Octavia when it just died while driving along the road at at about 50mph, luckily I was on the inside lane and was able to pull/heave onto hard shoulder.

Tried to start it quite a few times, spins over ok but not a dickybird; anyway called out the AA, the guy spins it over for about a minute! hay-presto it starts, he advises me to take to a Skoda Agent - luckily one was near by.

The AA man said he had been called out to a similar incident a couple of weeks before on a Skoda diesel, same remedy!

They look at it, and said it was only running on the diesel in the filtre on the run between the place where I broke down and the Skoda Agency. They found the fuel gauge sensor disconnected, when they reconnected it (evidently it is under the rear seat) all worked fine!

Question: How can the fuel gauge being disconnected, affect fuel delivery to the engine?

Because there is one connector on the 'fuel delivery' unit under the rear seat.

This houses both the fuel lift pump and the gauge sender.

If the plug comes off the pump wont work.

hope this clears things up a bit.

Ross

Thanks, feel a lot better, as I thought (wrongly) this problem is going to come back.

Other than this incident the car has not missed a beat.

I bought the 130PD to pull our caravan, as I was fedup with loosing power on the hills, it has not disappointed, far superior to the 4x4 luggers.

I am a member of the Caravan Club and their magazine produced the results of the 'Tow car of the Year' compertition.

I am suprised that the Skoda entrant was a Octavia RS, as unsuitable a car as possible for towing a caravan, what pratt picked that one, it evidently had no clutch at the end of tests!

I wonder why a 130PD was not used, unless someone was trying to nobble the Skoda entry.

I was totally unimpressed with the winners of the compertition.