I was driving over to my sisters earlier, car spluttered a little when I first started it, nothing unusual. Just round the corner from her house, changed from 2nd to 3rd after exiting a roundabout and the car decides to do its best impression of a Smart car and drops to to three cylinders, hoorah! :thumbdwn:

Limped it over to her place and called Skoda Assist who shot out in two shakes of a lambs tail... well, nearly two hours actually. Lucky I didn't get stranded in the middle of no where. I'd already assumed it would be a coil pack gone down and it was.

Just had to return my Octavia VRS to dealer. misfirng! diagnosis - corroded coil. tried to tell me water had got around plugs due to me cleaning the car! trying to thrash it out with them over warranty...

Bloomin eck, what did you use?

Hmm, my dealer refunded me on the coilpack no quibbling.

Is the car under warranty? They wanted nothing to do with mine. I swapped all mine out for new ones (L revision) as I CBA to have another one go.

I always carried a spare around in my old vRS, just in case.

Well, two months later, I've just had another coil pack let go on me! This time I got a proper Skoda Assist person out rather than an RAC patrol, the coil pack also cost