I was driving back from WSM meet and suddenly on the motor way their is a loud thud from the engine, and i loose drive, I pull over onto the hard shoulder tickle the accelerator and the needle dances around alot, I turn the octavia vrs off and look under the bonnet, No broken/leaking anything so I start it up and rev it again seems fine, I drive off slowely and all is well, I give it beans and all is well.

What the hell happend?!?! I never heard of this before, when i lost drive the engine was still runing with no dash lights so blah

Was it total loss of drive, or was it limp mode? Sounds more like limp mode to me. There's likely to be a fault code stored on the ECU from the incident which will give a clue as to the problem

Maybe it jumped out of gear?

Total loss of drive, ANd I downshifted from 5th to 4th still no drive, I had my car vag-com'd at the meet and was chuffed their where no faults, so it was not a thing that was waiting to happen

Also is it normal when your accelerating hard and change gear the revs surge abit when you dip the clutch?.

Proberly is im just paranoid as hell now eh? but i never noticed before

Well, if it was a mechanical problem, a simple restart of the ignition shouldn't have cured it - Usually it's limp mode which is reset by doing that. Has it been OK since?

Seems fine apart from this-

Also is it normal when your accelerating hard and change gear the revs surge abit when you dip the clutch?.

Proberly is im just paranoid as hell now eh? but i never noticed before

Seems fine apart from this-

Also is it normal when your accelerating hard and change gear the revs surge abit when you dip the clutch?.

Proberly is im just paranoid as hell now eh? but i never noticed before

This is different to clutch slip, yes? I.e. it's not surging when in drive. This could be a sign the clutch is a little wonky, but I can't understand how it caused the initial symptoms of total loss of drive, yet it came back after a restart. :confused:

Could be an accelerator pedal/tb fault

Im totaly bemused tbh, the jumping out of gear thing was most likly I thought, but when i changed into 4th still nothing.

Im going to take it to mike at IP so hopefully He will know, with regard to the clutch, today I was parked outside and put it into 1st and it crunched, i tryed again and it crunched and then a 3rd time, I then skipped 1st and put it into 2nd followed by all the gears then back to 1st and it was lumpy, Im thinking my flywheel and uprated clutch is nearer then i anticipated!.

If you are making a 'racing' change are you sure you have lifted your completely off the accelerator before depressing the clutch? Get this quite a bit in the PO van think it is just the acc meeting the clutch pedal position at mid point ie lifting off the acc at the same time so both half depressed at the same time so clutch actually disengaged whilst acc pedal also half pressed