Vibration from drivers front speaker

[Novascape]

Hi all,

 

Got another issue with my 2 week old octavia estate :(

 

I've got the standard speaker system and turned up the bass a bit. When playing something a bit loud maybe 2 3rds volume I'm getting a vibration noise from the drivers door speaker. Seems to happen only with a heavy bass beat.

 

Is this a common problem? Or could my speaker be a bit loose or maybe hitting the casing?

 

Thanks

[Exeterj]

Had both my canton main front door speakers replaced over the few years I’ve had the vRS, I don’t think it’s common as such (not too many posts here), but my dealer never quibbled about it being a warranty issue and replaced them FOC. Certainly the quality of bass in the original MIB1 systems was questionable and highly source dependant, not sure if newer ones are better now. 

[Swirly182]

I've noticed this on some tracks via Bluetooth (Spotify extreme quality). Kind of accepted the fact it's a standard Skoda sound system and, although not terrible, it's not amazing! Thanks to probably not a lot of sound insulation. 

[Stonker]

On 05/05/2018 at 21:44, Swirly182 said:

I've noticed this on some tracks via Bluetooth (Spotify extreme quality). Kind of accepted the fact it's a standard Skoda sound system and, although not terrible, it's not amazing! Thanks to probably not a lot of sound insulation. 

I've noticed the same in my FL Octavia SE L DSG Estate, I do have a bottle of insect repellent in the door pocket, when I crank up the volume it is v bad, but it lessens ever so slightly when I remove the bottle. It could be the same issue, but I'm trying to keep the volume down  

 

I did say that I was trying, the g/f would agree with that  but driving and good music go hand in hand 

[Novascape]

Well my car went in to be looked at today and ask expected they came back with nothing wrong.

 

Going to now have to drive 20 miles myself to the dealership to get some idiot to actually sit in the car and use his ears instead of doing a visual check!!

 

I'm not going to settle for this rubbish about standard speakers and you can't turn the bass up a bit. If it was standard both of the bloody front doors would do it!

 

 

[Legend]

1 hour ago, Novascape said:

Well my car went in to be looked at today and ask expected they came back with nothing wrong.

 

Going to now have to drive 20 miles myself to the dealership to get some idiot to actually sit in the car and use his ears instead of doing a visual check!!

 

I'm not going to settle for this rubbish about standard speakers and you can't turn the bass up a bit. If it was standard both of the bloody front doors would do it!

 

 

I had a drivers speaker replaced as it was blown BUT they couldn’t hear the rattle/vibrations after they fixed on the next two visits so they moved the fader towards the rear... I fixed it myself in the end it was the window switch pack. 

[Novascape]

Cars only a month old and a lease one so can't mess myself

 

I'm going to go and camp out at skoda until they fix it. Nothing worse than having bad quality music in the car when you have to spend up to 4 hours a day in it

[Guest]

My VRS drivers door rattles with the speaker bass, but I know its a 2013 model, so rattles to be expected. 

 

Does anyone have a strip down of the door card? 

[Guest]

On 26/03/2018 at 19:35, Novascape said:

Hi all,

 

Got another issue with my 2 week old octavia estate :(

 

I've got the standard speaker system and turned up the bass a bit. When playing something a bit loud maybe 2 3rds volume I'm getting a vibration noise from the drivers door speaker. Seems to happen only with a heavy bass beat.

 

Is this a common problem? Or could my speaker be a bit loose or maybe hitting the casing?

 

Thanks

Have exactly the same problem. Sure the passenger one is ok? You need to sit in the passenger seat to find out.

 

But as for turning up 2/3 volume, more like 1/3 volume with me. Doesn't always do it but when a track comes on the radio that has deep bass sections in it...  I'm not sure how they fix it because the speaker isn't screwed in place rather it's rivited. Haven't had door card off yet but my gut feeling is it's a build quality issue with the rivets - probably job not done properly. My solution is a little more drastic - one of these days I'm going to upgrade the system sound.

Edited 11 May, 2018 by Guest

[Novascape]

Going in next Monday again to get them to take the door card off and look for anything loose.

 

Took a lot of moaning even to get them to agree to that. First guy that looked must of had no idea about how things should sound and said he couldn't hear it, even low I could sitting in  the passanger side. Then topically it stopped doing it when he got a second guy. Thinking the opening/closing of the door must of stopped it rattling.

 

As they couldn't confirm the noise they were throwing the "can't do anything under warranty" in my face. Eventually got them to agree to look without me having to pay after complaining to the services manager loudly in the show room

 

Will let you know what they find.

 

 

[conn]

Interesting. UK drivers side is my passanger side. My right front door rattles with some tracks. When I apply pressure above the armrest then it goes away. I have 2013 end with Canton. VIN decode gives 2014 model.

 

So technically, if it really gets on my nerves I could potentially deal with the problem... But in that case should I go with the soundproofing and swapping out drivers route to something else? That is the question :-)

[Novascape]

Car went in yesterday to have the door card taken off and they found nothing loose. But we did find the problem. 

 

The door handle cable had been squashed between the card and door, most likely stopping the card from sitting correctly on the door. Once seated correctly and card refitted the buzzing noise has gone:)

 

Luckly I moaned enough to get it done as a good will thing because warranty would never of accepted a slightly misplaced cable as a claim

 

[Novascape]

Well that was short lived. Vibration noise went away for 2 days and now back again.

 

Took the door card off myself to pinpoint the issue and it is defo coming from behind the black plastic panel.

 

 

Anyone know how to get this off safely without breaking anything?

[marko]

yes, you can unclip the wiring and remove the module, it's worth noting that the little box with wiring looms can rattle and the fix is to wrap the internals with Tesa tape. the black panel come off completely once you feed the latch cable through the grommet. I stripped all 4 of my doors down to sound proof them and it was an easy enough job.

[Guest]

Can I ask the guide you used to Strip the door cards? I want to do this but don’t want to break anything. 

[Novascape]

Stufan,

 

I used the below

 

 

 

[Novascape]

On 30/05/2018 at 17:46, marko said:

yes, you can unclip the wiring and remove the module, it's worth noting that the little box with wiring looms can rattle and the fix is to wrap the internals with Tesa tape. the black panel come off completely once you feed the latch cable through the grommet. I stripped all 4 of my doors down to sound proof them and it was an easy enough job.

 

Marko,

 

If I removed the black panel, what did you use to attach it with again? Do I need to buy some sort of specialist double sided tape? 

 

Thanks

[marko]

10 minutes ago, Novascape said:

 

Marko,

 

If I removed the black panel, what did you use to attach it with again? Do I need to buy some sort of specialist double sided tape? 

 

Thanks

 

nothing, they just press in.. the smaller square one needs a bit of force though as quite tight!

[Novascape]

Thanks Marko 

[Jennifrance]

I have similar problem with 18 month old 1.4 TSI - had only had it a couple of weeks when I put music on for a long drive to Cambridge.  Originally thought it was the speaker but that has now been replaced under manufacturers warranty.  Unfortunately, it didn't cure the rattle and in fact, made the rattle/vibration worse.  Finally tracked it down to the window control panel in the arm rest.  When the vibration happens, you can press on the panel and it stops, release the pressure and it starts again.  My question is - is there a way of securing the panel to stop this.  Lovely car but driving me mad.  It has been back to dealers who sold it me and they have had it now for nearly two weeks (bonnet needed re-aligning due to someone having it off before I bought it) and have had phone call from service technician to say that they can reproduce the rattle, it definitely seems to be coming from the window control panel but that they can't do anything under the warranty to rectify it!!!

 

Looks like it might have to be a DIY job but any advice appreciated.

[FrankLK]

I had the same rattle coming from window master switch, i have Canton speakers, plastic around switch is poorly made and loose, fixed it myself with some rubber foam around switch and around plastic trim. 

Source of rattle:

https://youtu.be/hT3F5fIIuaU

[aki78]

6 hours ago, FrankLK said:

I had the same rattle coming from window master switch, i have Canton speakers, plastic around switch is poorly made and loose, fixed it myself with some rubber foam around switch and around plastic trim. 

Source of rattle:

https://youtu.be/hT3F5fIIuaU

I had the same problem in my previous MY14 O3, and it was even worse (like yours) in my new MY19.

This time I used wire harness (cloth) tape to fix this, I did the previous fix with PTFE tape (as on the pic).

In my new car the switch was so loose that I managed to remove it without any tool. Some extra pull on the door handle and it came out just by hand.

Thank you Skoda.....

Ignore the yellow rubber band, that was my first attempt to fix the rattle which didn't help much.

Edited 30 September, 2019 by aki78

[FrankLK]

Correct, the build quality of this piece of trim around switches is terrible. 

On this image can be seen the poor clips and clearance in the trim:

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Edited 30 September, 2019 by FrankLK

[FrankLK]

Why Skoda in the hell there is such a big gap in front part of door cards, it is so big I was thinking there was something wrong, but then I compared with brand new car and it was the same:

[FrankLK]

Small update, after some time it started rattling again and how it was also scratched I decided to order new this plastic around swithes (20€ OEM). 

On my big surprise new part has more rough structure and new design of clipping, but to be sure I added some rubber foam and duct tape to be more fixed. 

 

Edited 12 December, 2019 by FrankLK