I've recently got a small issue with my car; after it is fully warmed up, under partial throttle, there is an occasional stutter when accelerating slowly. It's not all of the time and it does not happen when the car is cold; usually after 15 or so miles.

I'm going to get Skoda to take a look but I'd quite like to be armed with a bit of info in case I cannot replicate it when at the dealers. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Fitz

This happened to my old vrs after the main dealers had replaced the injectors through a skoda recall, turns out that when they put in the injectors that they wrecked an injector seal when installing the replacement injectors, in turn as the injector was replaced and driven on a broken seal, it blew the air inlet manifold and another couple of bits and bobs,

After bout 3 weeks of having it out with the main dealer they eventually admitted to making a balls of the job and replaced everything. The point im trying to make of they start messing you round stick your heals in and get it sorted!!!

'Persistence is the key!!!'

Hope it's nothing like that!!!

Car is only 5 months old and never been touched by the dealers.

It shouldn't be injectors.

The injector recall only applies to PD170 engines and not common rail engines.

Edited 13 March, 201313 yr by booke23

How can it be injectors on a petrol?

I misread his signature.....thought he had a FL diesel.

But the TSI is fuel injected isn't it?......so you can't completely rule out injectors.

Sounds a but like what I had on my (diesel) Octavia.

Changed the fuel filter after advice on here and that cured it (for me). After about 5 days I never noticed it again and it's been fine for at least 8 months now.

Cheap & easy enough to try.

Gone from occasional stutter to pretty much all the time now. No problem at full throttle but a right pain under normal acceleration. It's booked in tomorrow morning and going to get that annoying whistle from the grill sorted whilst its there.

Most likely cause is something simple like a coilpack.

Hope it is something simple like that. For the TSI members out there, does your engine sound, how can I put this, rubbish?? From day one I've always thought it sounded quite tappety if you know what I mean. I've had loads of cars before but the TSI seems to be noisy and not in a good way. Not when it's driving but from the outside and when the bonnet is up.

Which kind of fuel are you using? Supermarket?

I'd try a wee forte fuel treatment or something similar, Redex is balls btw!

G

Only premium fuel by premium brands ;-)

I get a big stutter on my car as well, happens when i accelorate smoothly then kind of hit's a wall of stutter between 2500 - 3000 rpm, If i accelerate progressively then you dont really notice it. My car's recently been serviced and all the filters changed plus i run it on 'premium' branded fuel.

I bought a diagnostic tool not so long ago even though my local garage said there were no fault codes shown on the car, once i work out how to use it and where to plug it in i'll check for any error codes myself.

I had that stutter at those exact same revs, i changed the plugs and fitted new coil packs from psi tuning as cheaper than the dealer, and are original vw ones, and no stutter at all, the car is a real pleasure to drive afterwards.

I think an intermittent "tappety" sound may well be a standard noise. My original engine and the new one both sounded tappety on occasions, but not all the time.

Don't know what the cause is, but as it has appeared on two different engines where one is a replacement, I don't thing I should worry too much.

Of course, members out there may know different

The car is in the garage at the mo and they have given me a City-Go to play about in. It's a riot to drive :-)

I had that stutter at those exact same revs, i changed the plugs and fitted new coil packs from psi tuning as cheaper than the dealer, and are original vw ones, and no stutter at all, the car is a real pleasure to drive afterwards.

I had new plugs fitted when the car was serviced about 2 weeks back so they'll be o.k. Just called PSI and they wont have any in until Monday so i'll call them then, looking at the pics on line i'm sure they are just what used to be called HT caps back in the day, but have gone up in price a bit since then, i also called Eurocar parts and they wanted £29 each with Vat, ouch..

Edited 15 March, 201313 yr by Gazman

Turns out it was the HT lead from number 4 cylinder into the coil pack was a bit loose. Drama over ;-)

Good sort :thumbup: :thumbup:

Whilst I was there I had a good look around the new Octavia. It was a 1.6 elegance and very nice it was too. Still not sure on the front end / grill / lights but I think it will grow in me. Seats were lovely and a very nice interior (except for the shiny black radio), liked the colour maxidot screen and just seemed a nice classy car.

Whilst there the salesman showed me something interesting, on his desktop he had a picture of an Octavia coupe !!'

I had new plugs fitted when the car was serviced about 2 weeks back so they'll be o.k. Just called PSI and they wont have any in until Monday so i'll call them then, looking at the pics on line i'm sure they are just what used to be called HT caps back in the day, but have gone up in price a bit since then, i also called Eurocar parts and they wanted £29 each with Vat, ouch..

Called Skoda service this am to ask if there might have been a recall on my car to replace the coil packs, they advised they'd have to take the car in and check it out, which i dont fancy them doing as i thought it was just a case of them checking my chassis and engine number out on there system, then confirming whether or not they would replace them for free as part of a recal...