After seeing this video now I am pretty convinced its the Anti-Roll Bar Bushes:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwUigrAtTOs

As suggested I would take it to a local VAG specialist or trusted local mechanic. Another aproach may be to take it in to a council run MOT station for a test, they only carry out tests, no repairs. At least you will know if it is safe to drive.

After all the advice given , and subsequent responses, this is a very testing thread to read.

After all the advice given, the OP is still obviously of the opinion that their own diagnosis will be better than whoever looks at it. I've lost count of how many times the OP has been told to trust the car to a mechanic and not try to tell them what the problem is before it is inspected.

 

Brick - head - bang - wall - against .....................rearrange as appropriate

 

Mike

 

 

After the horrifying experience I had with a mechanic and a so called VAG specialist as you guys already know I decided its best to learn and get the job done yourself. I am happy for a local mechanic on this forums to look at it.

After the horrifying experience I had with a mechanic and a so called VAG specialist as you guys already know I decided its best to learn and get the job done yourself. I am happy for a local mechanic on this forums to look at it.

You said you took it to Kwik Fit who are neither and who I wouldn't trust to inflate my tyres properly.

Ask around and find a small local to you garage that lives off reputation rather than adverts and ask them to take a look!

Jeez . . . how many times do you need to be told???

Mike, all I'll say is... exactly!

 

After the horrifying experience I had with a mechanic and a so called VAG specialist as you guys already know I decided its best to learn and get the job done yourself. I am happy for a local mechanic on this forums to look at it.

 

What a ridiculous thing to say! You're obviously not going to physically do the job yourself so at some point you're going to have to take it to a mechanic, and you're going to look a right spanner if you start spouting off what you think it is if they disagree as you'll have it in your head that you know better.

 

"Hello, without actually being able to answer any follow up questions you might have once I've told you what's wrong, and thus underlying the point I've obviously just been trawling the internet for solutions, here's my car, and please don't disagree with my diagnosis because you're obviously trying to rip me off if you do."

 

Because that's a really quick way to make any mechanic want to do the job to the best of their ability! Doubt many mechanics on this forum would be jumping at the chance to work on your car if you're gonna stand over them.

 

I've had garages that I've had expensive disagreements with, we all have, you just find one who is good by either trial and error or asking friends and stick with them,... THAT'S HOW IT WORKS!! Your very first post said, and I quote, "I have absolutely no clue about cars",... so try trusting those who do!

 

 

Kwik fit.

Edited 10 April, 201511 yr by blackspaven

You said you took it to Kwik Fit who are neither and who I wouldn't trust to inflate my tyres properly.

Ask around and find a small local to you garage that lives off reputation rather than adverts and ask them to take a look!

Jeez . . . how many times do you need to be told???

 

If you have read my threads you come to realise that I have visited the claimed to be the best so called VAG specialist in Birmingham and the Best rated garage in Birmingham as stated by the good garage scheme but both got me nowhere. That was after kwik fit. 

Mike, all I'll say is... exactly!

 

 

What a ridiculous thing to say! You're obviously not going to physically do the job yourself so at some point you're going to have to take it to a mechanic, and you're going to look a right spanner if you start spouting off what you think it is if they disagree as you'll have it in your head that you know better.

 

"Hello, without actually being able to answer any follow up questions you might have once I've told you what's wrong, and thus underlying the point I've obviously just been trawling the internet for solutions, here's my car, and please don't disagree with my diagnosis because you're obviously trying to rip me off if you do."

 

Because that's a really quick way to make any mechanic want to do the job to the best of their ability! Doubt many mechanics on this forum would be jumping at the chance to work on your car if you're gonna stand over them.

 

I've had garages that I've had expensive disagreements with, we all have, you just find one who is good by either trial and error or asking friends and stick with them,... THAT'S HOW IT WORKS!! Your very first post said, and I quote, "I have absolutely no clue about cars",... so try trusting those who do!

 

 

Kwik fit.

 

I don't want to argue or cause any heat but if I kindly ask yourself and other members to answer my questions without going off topic. If you cannot answer my questions without going off topic then please do not reply.

I said I am pretty convinced its the anti roll bar bushes I did not say I am 100% sure and diagnosed its the anti roll bar bushes. Please read my words carefully. My brain tells me it cannot be the coil springs cause if it was the coil springs then it be making the same damn noise in the warmer weather hence why I asked earlier can we rule out coil springs? I had to research and find out myself helping myself. The only help I get this forum is argumentive heat with no solid advise at all. I probably thinking of leaving this forum if it continues like this. Yeah I know all of you don't give a damn but it will help new members in the future to decide whether to join this forum or not after reading this turmoil.

 

And I am pretty sure I will get another argumentive reply to this post as usual. I bet £100. Watch this space.....

Has anyone mentioned the sub-frame stretch bolts?The boys on the other side of the Atlantic have  new revised bolts which are supposed to eliminate undesired sub-frame movement.

Dont waste your time asking here cause the only reply you gonna get from this forum is 'go see a mechanic'. Yes really helpful this forum is.

Dont waste your time asking here cause the only reply you gonna get from this forum is 'go see a mechanic'. Yes really helpful this forum is.

Look, the point you may have missed by Mike and others is that you are asking for a very firm diagnosis on a problem that can no way be given without seeing the car......

If someone was to give you a "90%" diagnosis of the problem and it turns out to be wrong after you've spent £X trying to fix it, you will probably come back moaning that they were wrong and you've wasted your cash. Nobody wants that on their shoulders. Why can't you understand this?

There have been some good suggestions for your problem and enough for most people to run with and to take to an Indy that can start to investigate your issues.

You need to accept that nobody can diagnose your problem over the internet to the extent you want, but also that not every garage wants to bend you over because you are female. At some point your going go to have to bite the bullet and take your car in if you want it fixed.

People have been helpful, but you're not willing to accept the good advice/suggestions as you want them to be spot on, which is not realistic given the symptoms you have could relate to a number of different issues.

If you have read my threads you come to realise that I have visited the claimed to be the best so called VAG specialist in Birmingham and the Best rated garage in Birmingham as stated by the good garage scheme but both got me nowhere. That was after kwik fit. 

 

 

I did read your osts but they were so rambling and confusing that it wasn't clear whether you had only visited Kwik Fit so I made an assumption.  I've suggested what I think it is from experience earlier so will call that it.

 

Oh and by the way this IS an incredibly good and useful, friendly forum!  Sorry it doesn;t suit your needs.

 

Bye!

I can't believe this thread is still going...

Talk about a broken record!

Yup, this can be an incredibly helpful place... if you actually take the damned advice given!!

 

Works both ways, so I'll be looking forward to your contribution to help others as well if you stay on here, which I severely doubt. Why does everyone want something for nothing nowadays?? So sad.

 

Hope you do get your £100 bet off someone cos then you can take it to a garage to get it diagnosed by someone who can actually see the bloody car instead of guessing.

Edited 12 April, 201511 yr by blackspaven

I said 1000 times before I do not want a 100% diagnosis over the Internet. I am happy for 60-99% diagnosis. Yes I have followed advise which is to visit a garage.

 

If you can show me at least 1 similar suspension problem thread in this forum where the replies to that thread is 'go see a mechanic' then I will know your advise has been fair.

What he said!

 

Most people on here take the advice (note the letter C) given, and then act upon it by either trying to fix it themselves or taking it to someone who can instead of persisting in annoying others by repeatedly asking the same questions over and over. THAT is what this part of any forum is for, information which can be used constructively to achieve a successful end result, not simply as a way of getting people to calculatedly GUESS what's wrong then use that guesswork to harangue some poor ****** in a garage by saying that someone you've never met on the internet says differently and you're trying to rip them off if they state otherwise, even when they're the only ones who can actually see the car! You sound like a nightmare customer!

 

Unfortunately, you're gonna have to shop around until you find a mechanic you like (and judging by your snippy, unrealistic responses on here, one who can put up with you too!), same as everyone else. My car is out of warranty, out of it's service plans and I'm having to do the same thing myself in finding a decent indy to go to, I'm just choosing to get on with it as I know everyone else has to as well!

 

Dont waste your time asking here cause the only reply you gonna get from this forum is 'go see a mechanic'. Yes really helpful this forum is.

 

If this is your opinion of the forum after your limited use, then what's the point of you coming back?! Strange how there's so many people still here after many, many years. :no:

 

Glad to hear that you don't want 100% diagnosis, up to just 99 will do. Joker.

Edited 12 April, 201511 yr by blackspaven

Thanks for the support Simbo, I was beginning to wonder whether everything I knew or thought I knew was either irrelevant or incorrect. Yes, I've had my hands dirty a good few times from helping you out, and not only appreciate our true friendship that has come about through this very forum, but also the TRUST and FAITH you have shown in my willingness to help, my judgements and my abilities to sort a few problems out with your cars. Without trust, would you have let me change all the brakes, discs and pads, on your old Octavia, and a steering wheel, which involved removing and refitting airbags, on your new Superb? And would you have travelled the best part of 100 miles for that privilege if you didn't trust me??? No, of course you wouldn't.

 

As said time and time again, it can all be summed up in one single five letter word -- TRUST.

 

One final point about finding a garage and learning to trust it -- I found my mechanic when I was living in Preston and only 2 miles away from the garage, and it was useful that the garage was actually in the same little set of industrial units where I worked. I then moved 145 miles away to Whitby, on the other side of the country. if any major work needs doing that I can't or won't do myself, where do I go now? Yes, you guessed it -- a 300 mile round trip to my TRUSTED garage in Preston. Maybe taking that to the extreme, but I know damn well that firstly a cracking job will be done, secondly, I know damn well that I won't get ripped off, and thirdly, that mechanic has become a good friend himself, a friend I know that I can trust and rely on totally should anything need doing. Many times I have posted thanks to him and recommended him to others on here, as plenty of members will confirm.

 

Mike

 

 

Lets say your car has safety issues. You telling me you would do a 300 mile round trip risking killing yourself on the journey of seeing your trusted mechanic?

 

Someone shoot me.

Lets say your car has safety issues. You telling me you would do a 300 mile round trip risking killing yourself on the journey of seeing your trusted mechanic?

 

Someone shoot me.

Hi Laureen,too many good suggestions are going astray in the to and fro of this rather heated thread,Simbo's suggestion about asking a taxi driver or the boss of a cab firm that runs a fleet of Skoda's is an excellent tip.Taxi drivers rely on their vehicles for a living,they always know the best mechanics...their lives and the lives of their passengers rest in the hands of those mechanics.

Clearly he wouldn't if it weren't roadworthy. But there are plenty of non urgent jobs that it could work with. And trust in a mechanic can easily be worth 30-40 quid fuel on a 500 quid bill.

I started reading this thread and gave up with all the silliness. Please be assured the guys who have responded are helping as far as can be done from a pc/phone screen. Suggest you accept that, lock this thread (assuming you started it), and start again with your correspondence on here, as it will pay off in the long term if you keep your Skoda.

Lets say your car has safety issues. You telling me you would do a 300 mile round trip risking killing yourself on the journey of seeing your trusted mechanic?

 

Someone shoot me.

 

Taking it to the extreme just to make a stupid point, what a d1ck! I'm done with this thread. Said it before, Don’t argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience!

 

Outta here.

Dont waste your time asking here cause the only reply you gonna get from this forum is 'go see a mechanic'. Yes really helpful this forum is.

Ma'am, if I could teleport myself through the internet I'd come & diagnose & attempt a fix.  Unfortunately, as Jars said, it's really hard to pinpoint a noise via the internet unless it's a really common issue like "on full lock I get a clattering sound" which is usually the CV joints.

 

Everyone has given you some ideas to consider but unless you wish to do repair by the "suck it and see" method by replacing parts & hoping you've got it right then you need a mechanic next to the car.

 

Unfortunately, you've been so obnoxious that I doubt any forum member local to you would be game to try and help.

 

I'm really sorry that you think these forum members unhelpful.  I've found them to be quite the opposite and I appreciate all the advice & help they've provided me in my 7 years of Skoda ownership.  Despite being (mainly) Poms they are a great bunch of people.

 

PS: I think the mods should close this thread because:

a)  The OP doesn't really want advice

it's run its course

Edited 12 April, 201511 yr by brad1.8T

Has anyone mentioned the sub-frame stretch bolts?The boys on the other side of the Atlantic have  new revised bolts which are supposed to eliminate undesired sub-frame movement.

 

 

Dont waste your time asking here cause the only reply you gonna get from this forum is 'go see a mechanic'. Yes really helpful this forum is.

Greek 5vrs was making a suggestion as to a possible fix.  He wasn't asking a question about subframe bolts, he was asking if it's already been mentioned.

Feel free to take that advice on board or discount it at your leisure.

Brad, I love you! At least I'm not the only one who occasionally forgets that when bulletpointing, a letter B and a closed ellipse ')' together makes a smug face, NOT a point B. You couldn't have placed it more ironically!

I went to fix it but decided it was appropriate for the context.