Re: 2009 Skoda Fabia Diesel 1.4 TDI - 93K KMs - Engine Crank shaft problem Hi, I know I am posting to a long dead thread, but since last week I am facing a similar problem, the car is 2008 Fabia 1.4 PD Diesel, its has behaved well all the while its been with me and I love to drive it when ever possible, last week on our regular weekend long drive, while climbing the Amboli Ghat, MH (from Goa) the amber/yellow ABS light in the instrument cluster lit up and I immediately pulled over, switched off, checked the owners manual, it advised I could cautiously continue with the drive and the problem should be attended by a specialist workshop.
Okay let me give some background here, the Fabia's battery was weak and I kept delaying on a situation where I should have bought the battery a week back (yeah I know, I am sorry and I feel like kicking myself, I am carrying a lot a regret and guilt hence) and every time I started the car it would stutter, cough and come to life, sometimes needing couple of attempts, that apart the car is in fine mechanical tune at least to my understanding, the car has about 2k kms to go for the next service at 85k kms and I kept procrastinating as I believed I could live this way till the upcoming service next month without much adverse effect, for me, the car started despite the couple of attempts and it ran fine thereafter, I was a little tight on cash and did not allot the needed importance to this (I could have borrowed money), also I spoke to the mechanic and he said that everything is fine as long as the car is running fine, he didn't warn me about any other danger apart from getting stranded for not starting.
I even once got a neighborhood battery repair guy to come and jump start the car as the car would not crank after it was in the parking for a month and after running a bit it continued starting.
Every time it was started, while the engine cranked all the lights on the instrument cluster would go blank momentarily as if all the power in the battery went to start the car and after starting only the parking brake light would remain as normal. The battery is struggling since March 2014 and it kept getting bad, I know I was flogging a dying horse for which I need to be shot dead, I foolishly expected Skoda to behave like a Maruti knowing fully well that Skoda battery dependency is far more, this is a sunroof car and the sunroof would open only after a few kms of driving. I love my cars but its just that there were thousand other things I would end up doing till EOD and postpone for a later day, also I use the Skoda only about twice a week.
So that day, the car started after the usual stutter and drove well about 60 kms till we climbed the entire hill when this light suddenly came up.
I addressed this battery problem and changed the battery in a couple of days to similar spec (Din 74) Amaron, the earlier one was Exide.
Now this ABS light keeps popping up every now and then randomly, sometimes it stays on continuously and other times it comes and goes and comes back again suddenly.
The service person hooked it to the computer and it shows no error code, baffling me & him, he asked me to drive and said maybe it will go by itself which hasn't happened, I drove 100+ kms that day hoping the indicator would somewhere go off, took it back and he says since it does not throw any code he can't do anything about it. He checked the fuse, connectors and everything seems to be in place as required, I left the car in the workshop and requested him to some how help me with this. I take my cars to an independent Bosch multi-car workshop and am comfortable with his workmanship compared to the authorized guys. I tried hard braking and a low tread tyre locks up so ABS is not working.
I know there are lots on Team BHP who rival the best as far as trouble shooting is concerned hence this is my next step, Can some one who has a related experienced or knows what this can be about tell me what should the next steps be to get the car back in shape, also please let me know what else could I have damaged due to my stupid way of responding to an earlier simple problem.
Please help me here. Thanks.
Last edited by s_pphilip : 9th June 2014 at 23:06.
Reason: Please help me here. Thanks.
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