Mil

...she's all black again, paint touched up, bumper repaired and resprayed, fully serviced....on my way home, in the traffic, dropped back down to 1st gear...started accelerating, and it was shuddering, like nuts. Engine light blinked at me 3-4 times. it's like this throughout the gears. Funny part is, it din't do this from the beginning when I left the dealer's.

Called the service manager. He was kinda surprised, and told me that it's possible that because they also washed the engine bay for me, water may have gotten in the way of the spark plugs and are causing misfire. What's puzzling me is that it was fine in the beginning. So he offered me back the courtesy car and will send his guys over to my place tomorrow to have a look at the car, and if it is a problem that is unrectifiable there, will arrange for AAA to pick up the car at their expense. Thumbs up to Autostar Trading for this level of service, and I'll be posting a review in the review's section for them.

I've left my car at home, took my sister's car and went back to Skoda to pick up the courtesy car. Sister's car will be picked up later. Now, upon taking the courtesy car, the service advisor apologized and said he thinks it's the ignition transformer.

Ross...what's your view man?

I'm kinda bumbed this had to happen tonight, but they've guaranteed to have my car back to tip-top shape tomorrow for me.

Autostar rules.

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Goochie

Not much chance of Ross commenting I'm afraid Mil.

Join freedom and you'll see why

Water wouldnt get into the plugs. Not in a million years. Even if it did it wouldnt cause a problem like that.

Water in the HT leads could cause that though - does the 2.0 have coil packs ?

Mil

Ah...so it's like that now huh? Hmmm. Ok, that sucks.


I don't know if it has coil packs...IIRC it does. Why?

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yeah the 2.0 has wasted spark coilpack which is the same as the 1.4-16v cars..... it's a right bugger to get to it tho.... you have to remove the auxillary air pump to get to it, it's right underneath!.. plus to change the HT leads and spark plugs you need to remove the top section of the intake manifold and throttle body & about a million hoses.... good luck

does sound like an ignition problem to me, either water ingress or a HT is not plugged in properly.

trouble is with wasted spark, when you loose one cylinder, you loose the paired cylinder as well on these coilpack units.

Goochie

Its not like that

Sounds like a 1.8T Coil pack failure.

But you dont have a 1.8T

TeflonTom

just for everybody's info, this is what the coilpack from the 2.0 looks like



the two on the right go to cylinders 1 + 4, and the others go to 2 + 3,

Mil

I sat down last night to think about the problem, and the various views I got regarding this issue. First off, the ignition transformer IS a coilpack, makes perfect sense, since a transformer is a coil. If water seeped into this, this means that my car would definitely misfire since it wouldn't be igniting the spark plugs regularly like it should, hence the choke effect.

Skoda Dubai (lol) are picking up the car and gonna have it fixed and given back to me ASAP.

Thank you peeps.

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TeflonTom

water doesn't mecessarily have to get inside the coipack to cause problems, it could just be damp around the HT leads causing a misfire..

it may not be a problem with the coil/ht at all tho, it might just be a sensor come unplugged or a cable or hose not attached properly

Mil

Yea you're right...got the car back...it was HT leads.

Good as new now..almost

Now, for the ARB..

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TeflonTom

let me know hoe you get on with the ARB, i've heard all of the people raving on about how good they are on the vrs, but nobody with a 2.0 has one yet (i think?)

might get one myself if they are any good