Seat Ibiza Emission Controll System Warning Light

[Nervous_Tic]

Hi, I'm new here and I have a problem with my '06 reg'd Seat Ibiza 1.4 Sport.

I was on a long drive last night, after about 3 hours driving the Emission Control warning light started flashing on the dashboard and the car started to lose power.
When I slowed down to a halt the engine cut out completely, with the red battery light displaying too. I was able to restart the car however it was very sluggish getting it to move anywhere. As I was very nearly home though I decided to carry on as best I could (I'm led to believe this is known as 'limp home mode'?)
Soon after the warning light became permanently lit, rather than flashing, and I was still getting the problem of reduced power and engine cutting out each time I stopped.

This morning I have restarted the engine fine, the warning light remains lit and pressing the accelerator shows no sign of reduced power. However I haven't tried driving it anywhere yet.

I was wondering, are the above symptoms common and what could possibly be the cause of it all? Reading around it looks like a lot of people get one or two of the same things happening and for a range of different reasons, but is this exact combination common?

I've had the car 18 months, regularly take it on long drives and never had a problem, until now.

Can anybody give me some advice?

Thanks

 

[mikejd72]

I have exactly the same Seat and also had this problem this month.

EPC light and the Emission Control Warning light staying lit. Turned out to be the brake light switch causing the problem. The local garage replaced it and checked for any other faults. Came to £45.10. One other issue I had connected to this, the brake lights stayed on permanently so had to disconnect the battery overnight!

 

[Blanco92]

I have exactly the same Seat and also had this problem this month.

EPC light and the Emission Control Warning light staying lit. Turned out to be the brake light switch causing the problem. The local garage replaced it and checked for any other faults. Came to £45.10. One other issue I had connected to this, the brake lights stayed on permanently so had to disconnect the battery overnight!

SEAT see the brake switch issue all the time. The new switch only costs ~£8 and takes 10mins to fit, so it was quite an expensive fault code read you had there. It's a common problem across the VAG range really, dad had the same issue on his 2003 Audi A6.

Anyway, as far as I know, the brake light switch should not cause power loss or rough running, so I think the OP should be looking elsewhere for faults.

 

[lee_fr200]

i have an issue with mine where it blows a brake light and then it brings on the tc light and the glow plug light flashes, turned out to be a brake light switch lol