Anyone else notice that when you have the sunroof slid completely away in the roof (turning the dial that extra little bit and holding it), it can get very noisy with wind buffeting? Mine tends to do it around 30-40mph which is particularly annoying as you tend to go around that speed quite a lot! I can sort of counteract it by opening the rear window a tad, but this is hardly a decent remedy, surely?!

My MkII golf never suffered with this problem and i'm wondering if it's to do with the odd castellated design of the octy wind deflector that pops up at the front of the sunroof when it's slid back: the golf's was a flat stip so wind flew straight over it. I don't know why it's castellated as the flat design appears to work fine and I would have thought would be easier to produce?

Or is it just mine??!

The first position is the one that won't buffet, most sunroofs have that...the fully retracted position will buffet at a certain speed....the flip up thing has nothing to do with it. Every sunroof will do it at the right speed.

I find the fully retracted position to be less noisy 99% of the time.

Hmm, haven't really listened that much to it comparing between the two settings, I just know that between 30-40mph it seems VERY noisy when fully open. In response to the comment about all sunroofs buffeting, my Golf never did at any reasonable speed, which is why I was surprised that a car built almost 20 years on was so noisy when fully open.

Well the first "comfort" setting is usually to avoid the buffetting. Your Golf probably did it, but it was at a speed where you don't sit at for long....in Skodas its around where you mention, in my previous car I had an aftermarket Hollandia and it did it around 75km/hr...which was in between normal speed limits so rarely heard it as you go past that point quickly.

I'm yet to be in a car that doesn't do it, it's just more that the speed where it does it changes so in some cars you don't notice it.

The other problem is that sunroofs have got smaller and smaller, the Octavias is half the size of my Hollandia even though the Octavia is a larger car so I open it all the way, whereas in with my Hollandia I left it on the comfort setting which was 4/5 open but as the sunroof was bigger it was fine.

Blimey, fully open it seems about the same size as my Golf, so god know how big your old car's must have been!

Is it a factory roof, or dealer fit?

Factory. '58 plate car if that makes any difference.

Still noisy!

Anyone else find this now that there will be more people with this age car, or should I be taking it into the dealer before the warranty runs out?? It's only when it's FULLY open, on the normal open setting (before the stiff twist bit) it's quiet as a mouse through all speeds. :/