It sounds very much like you're driving a diesel engine so on that basis any mechanical sound is going to be noticed - not quite sure the video proves anything.

 

However from what you say, your dealer is acknowledging there is a definite noise which he/she says is 'characteristic'.   Well that's perfectly easy to prove - just drive another 1.5tsi from their garage and if that too has the same noise it's a 'characteristic' as they say. If however there is no similar noise then you're going to leave the dealer red-faced and they will have no option but to investigate further.

12 minutes ago, Scot5 said:

It sounds very much like you're driving a diesel engine so on that basis any mechanical sound is going to be noticed - not quite sure the video proves anything.

 

However from what you say, your dealer is acknowledging there is a definite noise which he/she says is 'characteristic'.   Well that's perfectly easy to prove - just drive another 1.5tsi from their garage and if that too has the same noise it's a 'characteristic' as they say. If however there is no similar noise then you're going to leave the dealer red-faced and they will have no option but to investigate further.

@Scot5 Thanks for the reply. I'm not that dump not to know what kind of fuel to put in my car  . I poured until now petrol only and the engine still running OK so definitely its a petrol engine (not diesel). But jokes asides, its a 1.5 TSI (petrol), its mentioned in the video as well. Its noisy because the sound was recorded from the outside and layered over the video that was taken from inside of the car.

 

I don't agree with you that those clunky noises are normal (and yes, that is what I have seen at least on other octavia with same engine and gearbox that the dealer gave me to try). Those vibrations cannot end well in a long run. The octavia I test-drove was having exactly same clunky noises but they were somewhat less noisy (not that loose as mine - I guess this is exactly what the time does to the gearbox driving the car with such symptoms). As per you I have just to wait until the gearbox will fail? And even then they will either say that I don't know how to drive a manual transmission or the car will be well after the warranty. I don't think that all these folks that posted in this forum that their gearboxes broke, don't know how to use manual transmission.

Vadimbo, Scot5 was not saying YOU put diesel in your car, he said it SOUNDED as if it WAS a diesel car! I think you missed his point a little..

 

Having said that, please don't suggest someone is dumb, if they do put diesel into a petrol car or vies-versa, this happens VERY frequently and breakdown companies run dedicated patrol vehicles just for this issue. It still happens, despite supposedly being more difficult to do so due to differing pump nozzle sizes and different colour holders.  I have often thought how simple it would be, to fit say diesels with a round filler, petrols with a triangular filler or something like that. No-one has as it is a win-win situation for petrol stations, Governments and breakdown services alike!

 

Sorry to detract from the initial thread though, sounds like Skoda have fitted a clutch that is may under the quality/powr needed, for these vehicles. I have always maintained the clutches on the 1.4L turbo diesel Fabia's, which have a three cylinder lump, are NOT really up to the job. They seem to be the weakest link of an otherwise nice package!

Edited 9 August, 20205 yr by mrgf