Looks like my 06 mk2 vRS needs a new battery :(

Gave the car a good clean and valet today, went to start the car, nothing!! Called Skoda assistance and they sent the RAC out within an hour (not too bad I thought) and they found the battery was pretty flat! They jump started the car then ran a battery check which it failed on. One theory is that as I had the doors open for a while when I was doing the valet, it may have ran down the lowish output from it?

I'm think that maybe my car hasn't done much for a while (06 plate with 2.5k mileage) which has maybe damaged the battery now. Also got the 'bulb out' indicator on the dash coming on but no bulbs are out?

APART, from that everything else is great, took it for a short blast after the RAC were finished and it reminded me what I loved about the mk1 Octy vRS I had. Just looks like I'll be phoning my local dealer tomorrow to try to get them to have a look at the battery and bulb light issues. Didn't buy the car from them (didn't have one in the spec or price range) but hope that won't cause any bother, fingers crossed.

Cheers for now,

Hugh

Take it to the dealer and get them to test it. If needed, you should get a new battery under warrantee.

Yes, going to do that today if I can but now waiting on the RAC again as the car won't start again! lol

Cheers

Hugh

Hugh

There were issues with early radio's draining the battery, an 06 car shouldn't be affected unless it was maybe older stock.

Hi Stu,

Thanks for the info, got the bump start to get me to the dealer who can't look at the car til tomorrow. Just back at work now and tried the car again and totally dead :(

A friend at work is loaning me some jump leads to get me home tonight and then back to the dealers tomorrow. We'll see what they make of it tomorrow I suppose but hope it's not too serious.

Cheers

Hugh

Hi Shugz,

The battery in my VRS also kept going flat and it turned out the engine fans were coming on whilst I was out of the car. Apparently there was water getting into the electrics somewhere (think it was the relays) causing the engine cooling fans to come on – all fixed now the unit has been replaced.

Might be worth having a word with them so they can check this for you.

Rizla

Hi Rizla,

Cheers for the info, much appreciated. I take it you'd be able to hear the fans etc if they were coming on after you'd parked the car up? The RAC man yesterday said that the initial drain may have been the fact the battery was on it's way out and I had all the doors open for 30mins + yesterday when I was valeting the car. That would have killed what little charge it had in it maybe?

I will be interested to hear what the garage says tomorrow and hope they can fix it. Worst case scenario is that I get a phone call at 4.30pm to say, 'yes, it's your battery'!! Will be doing more jumps (starts!) than Princess Anne at this rate

Cheers

Hugh

I had 2 batteries replaced before the dealer found out that the Brake Light Switch was faulty and was turning the Brake Lights on when the car was parked.

Suggest you ask them to check it out as it was apparently a known fault in a small batch of switches.

Will do Octavia5, thanks for the info. I've emailed the dealer I got the car from too as it is not local to me so can't really take the car back to them. I haven't heard any fans going and/ or brake lights going on when the car is 'off' but will tell the dealer this as well as keep a good eye out when I get the car back incase it is something like this.

Cheers

Hugh