Scirocco Central

Hi guys,
I had something strange happen while I was driving last friday, and was wondering if anyone had experienced anything similar.

On the M25 (slow moving traffic), nothing abnormal happening .i.e no heavy braking or weird accelerating patterns etc, and suddenly, I hear a beep and one of the warning lights on my dash came on, and the message on the MFD said "Brake fault: Workshop"... all this happened for about 2 secs, and all messages and warning lights disappeared as quickly as they appeared.
I was pretty baffled and VERY worried, so I tested my brakes immediately, and they still worked fine. I wasn't able to see exactly which warning light came on (except the fact that it was yellow/amber).
I drove it all the way home (east london), and it didnt happen again. Also drove it back to bristol the following day and no issues either. I havent had the time to hook it up to VCDS to get the fault codes out.

Has anyone had this happen?

Not much experience in this - but could it be something to do with the pads? I though the warning light was yellow for this but i could be wrong

Thanks Phil,
This was exactly what I thought - but my car has just been for a service, and I thought they checked the brakes as part of their "free" visual inspection. I also thought the warning light would stay on if it was the pads.

I will hook it up to VCDS, I suspect it's the pads. The car had about 45k miles and I dont think the brakes have been changed... Pretty impressive from the pads, though I am not one of those drivers who constantly slams on the brakes

EDIT: Had a quick look on google, you are right, I think it's my pads that are on the way out! They must still have a while to go if the light went out. Hopefully will change them in a few months

Interesting Fault code generated, it seems my pads aren't the issue:

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Address 03: ABS Brakes (J104) Labels: 1K0-907-379-60EC1F.clb
Part No SW: 1K0 907 379 AH HW: 1K0 907 379 AH
Component: ESP MK60EC1 H30 0107
Revision: 00H30001
Coding: 763B60F5492600FD6E0F06EC921B0081300800
Shop #: WSC 00020 790 12345
VCID: 78D10AE2CB2228E1560-802D

1 Fault Found:
00668 - Supply Voltage Terminal 30
001 - Upper Limit Exceeded - Intermittent
Freeze Frame:
Fault Status: 00100001
Fault Priority: 1
Fault Frequency: 1
Reset counter: 78
Mileage: 71995 km
Time Indication: 0
Date: 2015.02.20
Time: 14:55:55

Freeze Frame:
Count: 0
Count: 32768
Count: 4608
Count: 129
Count: 48438
Count: 0
Count: 65280
Count: 0


Followed by the all too familiar Central electrics module 447 code:
Address 09: Cent. Elect. (J519) Labels: 1K0-937-08x-09.clb
Part No SW: 5K0 937 086 C HW: 5K0 937 086 C
Component: BCM PQ35 M 011 0029
Revision: BC011001
Coding: 48100A38F027E100400800803400012643513B88536D89605C8000000000
Shop #: WSC 00020 790 12345
VCID: 3449FED297CA0C81BA8-8061

Subsystem 1 - Part No: 1K8 955 119 E Labels: 1KX-955-119.CLB
Component: Wischer 30011 22 0614
Coding: 009795

Subsystem 2 - Part No: 1K0 955 559 AH Labels: 1K0-955-559-AG.CLB
Component: RLS 260310 05 54 0403
Coding: 0630ED

Subsystem 3 - Part No: 1K8 951 171
Component: DWA-Sensor 00 001 0104
Coding: 000000

Subsystem 4 - Part No: 1K8 951 605 A
Component: LIN BACKUP HO H11 9004
Coding: 000000

1 Fault Found:
00447 - Function Limitation due to Over-Voltage
001 - Upper Limit Exceeded - Intermittent
Freeze Frame:
Fault Status: 00100001
Fault Priority: 6
Fault Frequency: 2
Reset counter: 70
Mileage: 71194 km
Time Indication: 0
Date: 2015.02.05
Time: 17:36:12

Freeze Frame:
Term 15 On
Voltage: 13.95 V
ON
ON
OFF
OFF
OFF

I am not an expert, but it seems I got a voltage spike on my battery. This has been a recurring theme since I've had this motor.
This seems plausible, as the incident happened as I was winding my windows down, and perhaps that put heavy demand on the alternator as I was moving off at the same time.

I think it's high time I changed my battery