Hi

I have a manual Monte 1.2tsi and under hard acceleration from standstill, when I do a quick gear change from 1st to 2nd there is a bang like the engine is hitting the fire wall. The car drives like nothing is wrong but the noise/bang is a little disconcerting. Does this happen to anyone else? Is it normal?

Thanks

Yes this happened to me too about six months ago. It sounded like my engine exploded or like car was hit underneath by a great stone.

Car is fine and since that sound occurred it had two years or 30.000Km service performed and she has been checked by Skoda dealer. No leaks, no weird gearbox sounds, no weird driving behavior.

Of course I have never pushed the car that hard again but it was a great emergency situation. I do remember that I was trying to launch car to health centre and I had to obey in a STOP sign... Then Bang sound happened.

Edited 7 September, 201213 yr by stratosg

At a guess id say its the engine moving on it mountings.

At a guess its releasing all the tension and u change gear?

I really don't know but I am happy both are fine :sun:

Hi crash67,

It happens when the clutch rengages.

What sort of revs you talking ??? And when you say hard accelaration are we talking try to drag race kinda hard????

My thoughts are you being to rough and risk damaging the mounting clutch gearbox or even engine

But i stressnthats jus an opinion from what you have discribed.

High revs and drag race kinda driving. Am I being bad? hehe...

I think I'll check with the dealer, I really just wanted to know if it was normal.

My previous car (swft sport) never did it.

You have to remeber the Fabia is a not sports car is not made to be treated quite like that

Edited 8 September, 201213 yr by CRASH67

Check for engine rocking movement = (front to back).

One thing hearing a sound the other feeling metal to metal contact with sound.

Exhaust could foul body-work somewhere, look for this sort of rubbing contact point.

Check for engine rocking movement = (front to back).

One thing hearing a sound the other feeling metal to metal contact with sound.

Exhaust could foul body-work somewhere, look for this sort of rubbing contact point.

On car that a max of 18months old npvery unlikely tho wouldnt you think.

Sounds to me like you are just clumsily slapping the clutch plates together like a learner driver!

That said, I once owned an MG Montego, which did a similar thing... It was metal pipes under the bonnet that were not clipped too well, that slapped against the bulkhead on hard acceleration.. New clips, no banbing!

Mine did this at a local crossroads with staggered lights - pull out of crossroads on green, but the next set of lights were red - they delay by a few seconds, so I'm idling to the lights in 1st and they change. Accelerate and it "snatches" as I grab second. I didn't floor it, but it was hard acceleration from 1st to 2nd.

I now know this can happen and try to approach the staggered second set slower, so they change.

i get pretty bad wheel hop issues using the dunlop tyres on my vrs.

the tyres spin loosing grip then suddenly one will gain grip causing the wheel to hop. it creates a very loud bang as the wheel jumps about.

theres lots of youtube videos showing this on different cars.

i find it is mostly down to the rock hard.dunlops as i dont get any at all when using my soft semi slick tyres.