Cain79

Replaced the compressor and the rattle disappeared, it was getting really bad and rattling at all times, it was the ac clutch pulley, can't remember how much it was to replace but it wasn't as much as I was initially quoted (think in the region of £500) but that was a few years ago! So likely to be a fair bit higher now unfortunately. Hope you get it sorted

Ah right, very doubtful then that it's the compressor! Good thing too as they are expensive

Hopefully not the compressor then if it's inside the car but I would get it checked anyway as I could here the chirping when driving mine, regardless of whether the Aircon was on or not as the pulley is always rotating with the belt and it was the bearings or something that went

Had a similar noise with my 2015 TDI, went on for over a yr gradually getting worse. replacing the air con compressor resolved it, main Skoda dealer quoted 2x as much to do it as my local garage so shop around

Hi Hoping someone could shed some light on what is going on with my octavia Car is a mk3 octy 2.0 tdi estate sel without towbar prep but with acc/Park pilot/Park assist/Front assist etc.. Had a detachable towbar and dedicated wiring fitted 6wks ago, everything worked fine for a while picke up a trailer and all worked as it should then 3wks ago started getting warnings on the dash ACC and front assist not available Park pilot not available Check right rear trailer light Check left rear trailer light Long beeping sound from rear of car every 20mins Took it back to the fitters who spent an hour scratching his chin and used a witter handheld thing to reload the software saying it had thrown up a fault Drove away and all was good again.... For just over a week! Just been out for a drive and all the errors and lights are back but strangely it also auto locked and unlocked the central locking a couple of times The auto locking is a bit of a strange one as I wouldnt have thought that would be part of the systems affected by the trailer wiring and surely the wiring shouldn't affect anything in the car until the trailer is plugged in All these faults happen when nothing is connected and I have had a new battery fitted so that should rule out a battery on its last legs Anyone had any similar issues with witter dedicated wiring? Could it be a dodgy loom or just wired in wrong A

Been noticing that my 65plate octy 2ltr tdi (113000 miles on clock) has become quite rattly at idle and is getting worse, turning on the air con would improve the sound but it's started to appear whether ac is on or off now and is much worse when the engine is cold Recently took my car to the stealers to do the cambelt and waterpump + aux belt and tensioner (they forgot to put a new tensioner on though) ask them to investigate the noise but they didn't and said its probably the AC condenser and quoted me a ball park figure of £1k to replace it!!! My question is if it is the condenser then surely its just a simple job of replacing the clutch? £1k for an ac condenser WTF! surely it can be done cheaper And if not ac then what other items should I be testing? Cheers A