Blotted its copy book...
Discussion
My A5 has been 100% reliable up until today, but was just out in it and it had a funny 5 minutes!
Was pulling away from a junction slowly in traffic, got up to about 20mph, when. Beeeeeeeeeeeeep, engine temporarily died and got Stability system fault on the dash, then as soon it had occured, the error went off the DIS and it was fine??? The engine didnt stall, just completely lost power when the fault showed on the dash. Drove home, 30 mins or so and it was fine, weird. I guess this means a visit to the dealer and a shafting to get the fault read...
Anyone seen this on any B8 platform cars? DR G or Tame Technition perhaps...?
Was pulling away from a junction slowly in traffic, got up to about 20mph, when. Beeeeeeeeeeeeep, engine temporarily died and got Stability system fault on the dash, then as soon it had occured, the error went off the DIS and it was fine??? The engine didnt stall, just completely lost power when the fault showed on the dash. Drove home, 30 mins or so and it was fine, weird. I guess this means a visit to the dealer and a shafting to get the fault read...
Anyone seen this on any B8 platform cars? DR G or Tame Technition perhaps...?
How old is it and how many miles is on it? Mine has had a couple of electrical fits recently, the most frequent one is the reversing sensors on a continuous beep, then a couple of minutes later back to normal.
A colleague has a 10 reg 2.7 diesel and has spent £8k in recent weeks having the engine rebuilt then it developed a gear box fault which cost another £1k! They are usually reliable engines.
A colleague has a 10 reg 2.7 diesel and has spent £8k in recent weeks having the engine rebuilt then it developed a gear box fault which cost another £1k! They are usually reliable engines.
I had thought about the battery as ive not used the car much for the past few months due to the parking situation at my work ive bought an old shed for day to day use. But its had at least an hours run once a week during this time, which i would have thought to be enough considering the car is only just 4 years old.
rich83 said:
Throttle body issue? Can you scan it and see what faults are stored?
No, ive not got Vagcom, what makes you think throttle body? My monies on a steering position sensor or ABS sensor fault. No engine or other warning lights came on, just the text Stability system fault in the drivers information system.I'll get it booked into my local VAG specialists next week to see what faults were logged.
Ive just been out for an hour to see if it does it again and it didnt.
Cupramax said:
I had thought about the battery as ive not used the car much for the past few months due to the parking situation at my work ive bought an old shed for day to day use. But its had at least an hours run once a week during this time, which i would have thought to be enough considering the car is only just 4 years old.
My first Skoda battery lasted 43 months and it was used about 75miles per day, when the car started to do shorter trips the second battery last less than 3 years , lots of electrics on these cars and batteries get a hard life Gassing Station | Audi, Seat, Skoda & VW | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff