There was a nice fabia for (private sale) an old couple were selling it, good condition apart from when we were driving it over every bump was a horrid knocking noise (sounding like plastic hitting the underneath of the car) I also noticed this knocking which sounds like its comming from the front and back like under the car and its worse when i put my foot on the accelerator and let it off quick, its like the noise is going with the movement of the engine.

The strange bit is it only passed an mot on friday last week with no advisorys so was wondering if arb bushes would be causing this and if they were so bad to make such a noise over every bump would it fail its mot. I am thinking it cant be that bad if it has passed its mot just 3 days ago but this banging noise is awfull.

Any ideas what it could be would be very helpfull I also noticed that the interior light does not work when opening the door and that the buzzer to let you know you have left your lights on also doesnt work.

Apart from this it seems a good car, It has the 1.4 MPI 8 volt engine.

Thanks.

Sounds to me like the dogbone mount if it happens putting on/letting off power... although could also be console bushes, knackered dampers, combination of all 3?

tbh, i'd just plain avoid it! If they've let it get to that state, god knows what else is wrong with it

Edited 25 January, 201016 yr by Confused_Cheese

Sounds to me like the dogbone mount if it happens putting on/letting off power... although could also be console bushes, knackered dampers, combination of all 3?

Would any of these be an MOT failiure though as it is quite bad and it does have a full 12 months mot?

Thanks Confused Cheese

If you're really keen then take it to an MOT station you trust and see what they say, or get an RAC or AA inspection done. To be honest though, a 1.4 Fabia is hardly a rare car so I'd be inclined to pass this one by and keep looking.

If you're really keen then take it to an MOT station you trust and see what they say, or get an RAC or AA inspection done. To be honest though, a 1.4 Fabia is hardly a rare car so I'd be inclined to pass this one by and keep looking.

The car has only done 23,000 miles on a y plate and it has full service history from the aa nationwide auto center from 2004 before this it was skoda service. The thing is that the mot test doesnt test drive cars for knocks they just put them on the lift to check and i dont know if a dog mount or other certain bushes will consitute as a fail.

Stuck what to do as its such a low mileage car

My moneys on console bushes. Mine did this and clonked when going over bumps, change gear or anything else that casued power to be removed/applied.

Think it would fail the MoT, but the parts are around £16 from SEAT for uprated ones as used on the Cupra - and came to ~£170 total when I had mine done about 12 months ago.

It's a common fault, and can fail after low mileage due to the rubbish design as they perish easily. Easy way to tell, get down by front wheels, look under the car and there will be a big lump of round rubber pushed into part of the subframe. If this moves too much when the wheel is rocked by hand, or looks like the ones in the images (http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/149698-can-you-tell-me-please/), then it should be them that are at fault.

Top two images are ARB, if you move it by hand it should resist and stay still (this part was later revised in the Fabias life and might not have been replaced on such a low mileage car). The rest are the console bush, and they are ones that are starting to go bad.

HTH, Joe.

Edited 25 January, 201016 yr by TriggerFish

prob both arb and console bushes.

officially a failure ONLY if broken and allowing the wheel to contact anything it shouldn't otherwise just an advisory.

could be the arb droplinks too

probs what others say but I had some knocking on my Y plater around 50k replaced the drop links then 2k later the front spring snapped in two (3 actually)and when replaced all 4 springs found the other front had 1/2 a turn snapped off. I still have a wee knock different to before so will checkout these console rubbers

8 volt engine? Is this the first Fabia hybrid!?

Bushes would have been an MOT advisory if on the way out.

I'd rather buy a car with high motorway miles than an old couple's shopping car that does a couple of miles at a time to be honest...but having had very similar symptoms on my old 1.4mpi, my money's on the console bushes.