Hello,
Sorry for starting straight off as a new poster in this fashion, but I was wondering if anyone can help.
Bit of background first, I bought a 2013 Seat Leon FR (Mk3) last year. As soon as I collected it from the dealer and brought it home, it essentially died. Upon turning on the ignition, there was an ESC error, then a TPMS error. Attempting to start resulted in the engine either firing up for about a second then cutting out, or the engine just turning over repeatedly without firing at all.
Long story short, the dealer collected the car with a truck, and a week later determined that the ECU needed replacing. We got it back, and everything was peachy.
8 months later, the car starts to act up again. Driving along (I'd done about 30 miles, and it was a dry and warm summer day), and the bongs sound with the ESC then TPMS throwing errors. Start Stop also stopped working, as did cruise control and the parking sensors, but the engine continued running smoothly, and re-starting it cleared the issue.
It's now getting more and more common again until it started happening pretty much every other time I drove it, then finally this morning I get the errors as soon as I turn on the ignition, and the car refuses to start - just like when I first got it.
I've done a lot of searching around on this forum (and others), and have seen a number of similar issues to this, but usually they occur in cold weather, and usually clear up once the car is driven for a short distance - hence they're more annoyances than anything. I'm yet to see anyone get to the level where their car is marooned on the driveway as a result of this issue, and the errors on my car (if they occur while driving) do not clear until I turn the ignition off and on again.
Before I get the car shipped over to the garage (again), I'd like to try and understand the fault a bit better and what may be causing it, as changing the ECU does not seem to have eradicated the problem long-term. Does anyone have any ideas at all please that might help here?
Many thanks for any assistance!
Sorry for starting straight off as a new poster in this fashion, but I was wondering if anyone can help.
Bit of background first, I bought a 2013 Seat Leon FR (Mk3) last year. As soon as I collected it from the dealer and brought it home, it essentially died. Upon turning on the ignition, there was an ESC error, then a TPMS error. Attempting to start resulted in the engine either firing up for about a second then cutting out, or the engine just turning over repeatedly without firing at all.
Long story short, the dealer collected the car with a truck, and a week later determined that the ECU needed replacing. We got it back, and everything was peachy.
8 months later, the car starts to act up again. Driving along (I'd done about 30 miles, and it was a dry and warm summer day), and the bongs sound with the ESC then TPMS throwing errors. Start Stop also stopped working, as did cruise control and the parking sensors, but the engine continued running smoothly, and re-starting it cleared the issue.
It's now getting more and more common again until it started happening pretty much every other time I drove it, then finally this morning I get the errors as soon as I turn on the ignition, and the car refuses to start - just like when I first got it.
I've done a lot of searching around on this forum (and others), and have seen a number of similar issues to this, but usually they occur in cold weather, and usually clear up once the car is driven for a short distance - hence they're more annoyances than anything. I'm yet to see anyone get to the level where their car is marooned on the driveway as a result of this issue, and the errors on my car (if they occur while driving) do not clear until I turn the ignition off and on again.
Before I get the car shipped over to the garage (again), I'd like to try and understand the fault a bit better and what may be causing it, as changing the ECU does not seem to have eradicated the problem long-term. Does anyone have any ideas at all please that might help here?
Many thanks for any assistance!
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