One coil pack failed on my RS 3 weeks ago and since then have driving around in a hired Vauxhall Vectra (Painful), until four new design coil packs arrive into my dealer, having been warned this may take up to 2 months!. In the meantime my RS sits patiently in my garage. Now at the weekend, I had to move the RS onto the drive and guess what, second coil pack failed! :eek:

My RS is a 2002 model, I think ther morel of the story here is, once a coil pack goes, the others can't be far behide so don't go to far, or do what I did and insist Skoda supply a replacement car until the coil pack problem is 100% sorted;)

Mine went at the following mileages, IIRC

35000

42000

48000

52000

72000

Weird eh? Just proves it ain't predictable!

I had one go 5 months ago at about 21000 miles, and the second went 2 weeks ago at 32000 miles. Still got 2 old ones in there (G Type). When it went a 2 weeks ago I was back on the road within mins of arriving at the dealer cause he had a couple of new coils in stock. Coils do exist in the uk and if your car is subject to an offroad warranty claim it should only take a week or 2 at most to get it sorted.