Hi everyone,my Octavia has just developed a problem. It started just after I pulled away from home.About quarter mile away are traffic lights and as I took my foot of the accelerater approaching them I heard a tapping sound.Its coming from the front somewhere,I think its on the offside of the car.It doesn`t do it while i`m accelerating only when I am decelerating. Can anyone help please. Mark

Hi everyone,my Octavia has just developed a problem. It started just after I pulled away from home.About quarter mile away are traffic lights and as I took my foot of the accelerater approaching them I heard a tapping sound.Its coming from the front somewhere,I think its on the offside of the car.It doesn`t do it while i`m accelerating only when I am decelerating. Can anyone help please. Mark

Worth getting it checked, just in case. I had something similar with my 1.9 TDI. Dropped it into my local dealer (Garlands, Aldershot). They had it for a morning, put it up on the ramp, checked it, the service manager took it out for a test drive and then phoned me saying they couldn't find anything wrong. Collected the car and the noise had indeed disappeared, so just one of those odd noises that happens I guess.

Worth getting it checked, just in case. I had something similar with my 1.9 TDI. Dropped it into my local dealer (Garlands, Aldershot). They had it for a morning, put it up on the ramp, checked it, the service manager took it out for a test drive and then phoned me saying they couldn't find anything wrong. Collected the car and the noise had indeed disappeared, so just one of those odd noises that happens I guess.

Thanks for reply Robert,I`ve just phoned my local Skoda dealer they are going to look at it tomorrow.

I had a loud tinny rattle noise from the rear of mine as i approached a friends house (at the end of a rough roadway, and they've got a gravel drive). My initial thought was the exhaust had come loose and was dragging on the ground. Couldn't see anything, so we went for a quick drive - it was there as I reversed out of his drive, then it disappeared. I can only assume it was a small stone thrown up that got caught somewhere in the brake/wheel area - don't know if there's a metal shield or something, but it was a on-off and has not happened since. Bit of a worry at the time as we were 200 miles from home!

On a Mark 1 1.6 Octy I my dad had there was a tapping noise, only on overrun as you describe, which after a couple of months of it being quite easy to ignore because it was so quiet you really had to listen for it, appears to have been a warning sign for the rivets holding some part of the front diff together shearing. It needed a gearbox and final drive to put it back on the road. The only other symptom of something being wrong was that while putting power down on bends (Pulling away from traffic lights on a 90 degree bend for example) there very occasionally was a noticeable lurch from the car like it had hit a bump mid bend, but it wasn't repeatable. Over the course of 10 minutes while driving, the car started making a cracking noise and the drivetrain drag shot up - worst thing was (And part of the reason I stayed driving for a few minutes after the loud cracking started) was that I was 120 miles from home at the time :(...

The gearbox centre it was dropped in to for repair had 4 other Octavias with the same problem in their queue when my car arrived. It's unlikely you've got the same thing since the Mark 2 probably has a different gearbox and final drive, but these parts may have been carried over, I'd definitely check this one sooner rather than later!

Edited 19 April, 201016 yr by psycholist

Thanks for reply Robert,I`ve just phoned my local Skoda dealer they are going to look at it tomorrow.

Mark:

It might be useful to others for you to give us a brief update on the dealers findings after your visit ?

Mark:

It might be useful to others for you to give us a brief update on the dealers findings after your visit ?

Thanks for your replies lads,hopefully it`s not something too expensive & curleybar I will post the outcome.

Could you elaborate on that one a little matey?

I've got some backlash in my gearbox at the moment, but it had a recon at 117k. Its now up to 144k and im starting to wonder if they put in stainless bolts as i requested.

On a Mark 1 1.6 Octy I my dad had there was a tapping noise, only on overrun as you describe, which after a couple of months of it being quite easy to ignore because it was so quiet you really had to listen for it, appears to have been a warning sign for the rivets holding some part of the front diff together shearing. It needed a gearbox and final drive to put it back on the road. The only other symptom of something being wrong was that while putting power down on bends (Pulling away from traffic lights on a 90 degree bend for example) there very occasionally was a noticeable lurch from the car like it had hit a bump mid bend, but it wasn't repeatable. Over the course of 10 minutes while driving, the car started making a cracking noise and the drivetrain drag shot up - worst thing was (And part of the reason I stayed driving for a few minutes after the loud cracking started) was that I was 120 miles from home at the time :(...

The gearbox centre it was dropped in to for repair had 4 other Octavias with the same problem in their queue when my car arrived. It's unlikely you've got the same thing since the Mark 2 probably has a different gearbox and final drive, but these parts may have been carried over, I'd definitely check this one sooner rather than later!

Well psycholist it seems like they havn`t improved things on the mrk2,I have now got to have a new gearbox,it is the diff where the noise was coming from .Some of those symptoms you mention I also had in subsequent journeys.