Should of got his reg and reported this asrehole!

I thought that as he was doing his shouting and pointing stunt, but the back of his van was so dirty it was hard enough to see where the number plate was - no chance of reading it unfortunately, else I would have reported it for sure. It quite spoilt the nice sunny day for me having to experience that

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Edited 18 May, 201214 yr by Tim31

Tim, your tale will give immense satisfaction to anyone sensible who reads it, I feel. I can't describe the contempt I feel for these morons.

Drove to work this morning in my 170TDi Elegance 4x4 with no problems (23 miles). The car has done approx 12,500 miles.

Drove to Tescos at lunch time (about 2 miles) and again it was fine.

Came out of Tescos, started the car, it started normally and sounded fine ticking over.

Went to pull away and as soon as I increased the revs and found the biting point on the clutch, instead of the usual smooth sound and power, it became really rattly like an old diesel would sound (eg, knackered old transit van), and there was not the usual smooth delivery of power as I lurched forward.

No warning lights came on, and I dipped the clutch and at tickover it sounded fine again. Letting the clutch up and bringing the revs up again though and it sounded horrible. Any application of the throttle really sounded bad. I pulled over quickly (still in Tescos car park) and turned it off and lifted the bonnet.

Couldn't see anything amiss and pulling out the dipstick showed it covered in oil - hard to tell the exact level as the engine had just been running but its not been using oil and last time I checked it was about in the middle.

Put the dipstick back, started the engine again. Sounded fine at tickover, so I reved it and it rattled again. Reved it once more and it cleared and would then rev smoothly and quietly. Shut the bonnet, and had a quick test drive giving it some beans down the empty back end of the car park, and normal service was resumed.

Drove back to work, seemed OK. Turned it off, waited a minute, restarted it, still seemed OK.

So now I'm worried in case its going to do it again or if its the start of a bigger problem. :(

Any ideas what was happening?

Drove to work this morning in my 170TDi Elegance 4x4 with no problems (23 miles). The car has done approx 12,500 miles.

Drove to Tescos at lunch time (about 2 miles) and again it was fine.

Came out of Tescos, started the car, it started normally and sounded fine ticking over.

Went to pull away and as soon as I increased the revs and found the biting point on the clutch, instead of the usual smooth sound and power, it became really rattly like an old diesel would sound (eg, knackered old transit van), and there was not the usual smooth delivery of power as I lurched forward.

No warning lights came on, and I dipped the clutch and at tickover it sounded fine again. Letting the clutch up and bringing the revs up again though and it sounded horrible. Any application of the throttle really sounded bad. I pulled over quickly (still in Tescos car park) and turned it off and lifted the bonnet.

Couldn't see anything amiss and pulling out the dipstick showed it covered in oil - hard to tell the exact level as the engine had just been running but its not been using oil and last time I checked it was about in the middle.

Put the dipstick back, started the engine again. Sounded fine at tickover, so I reved it and it rattled again. Reved it once more and it cleared and would then rev smoothly and quietly. Shut the bonnet, and had a quick test drive giving it some beans down the empty back end of the car park, and normal service was resumed.

Drove back to work, seemed OK. Turned it off, waited a minute, restarted it, still seemed OK.

So now I'm worried in case its going to do it again or if its the start of a bigger problem. :(

Any ideas what was happening?

Had the same fault on mine,it was intermittent happened about every 4 or 5 weeks took it back to the dealer on several occasions and nothing showed up on the computer or when they drove it.This went on for approx 10 months then I got skoda uk involved they told the dealer to reset the injectors.Fault was still there,my son is a mechanic and he said the injectors needed replacing as there could be a hair line crack.The dealer did that in december and has been fine since