Unfortunately, my perhaps never-ending story of "minor" defects on a 2-year-old vehicle has another sequel.

 

For better illustration, I enclose a video. https://streamable.com/2c681o 

I unfortunatelly can´t attach the video here as the maximum file size is limited to 8 MB and the video has 45 MB.

 

Does anyone have any idea what that sound it is? It only does it in the morning when it's cold. At the afternoon when it´s 15 degrees outside it does not do it. And in the morning, it disappears in a 20-minute drive. Maybe poorly seated plastic / metal that shrinks / expands with heat? The defect did not show up to the authorised Skoda garage :-D And the video is from the next day after the car was returned to me. Oh noo…. Then I found out that the incompetent “mechanic” was dealing with car axle from the outside and not the steering wheel inside.

 

It really starts to bother me. I originally bought this Fabia so that I wouldn't have to deal with problems with the 5-year-old Octavia for the same money as 2-years-old Fabia, but I haven't stopped since I bought the Fabia.

 

Maybe just me, but I can't hear any creaking noises, have you tried replaying that video to make sure that the noise can be heard.

Of course, I have played the video to myself before posting. Probably "creaking" is not the best English word to choose. Please excuse my imperfect dictionary. But anyway. You really can´t tell that there is A sound from the steering wheel which should not be there?

 

Can´t find the perfect word for it. It sounds like sprocket. Have you ever been on a roller coaster with the "carriages" being pulled upstairs by the chain? For me it sounds exactly like that.

18 hours ago, MinionBob said:

Of course, I have played the video to myself before posting. Probably "creaking" is not the best English word to choose. Please excuse my imperfect dictionary. But anyway. You really can´t tell that there is A sound from the steering wheel which should not be there?

 

Can´t find the perfect word for it. It sounds like sprocket. Have you ever been on a roller coaster with the "carriages" being pulled upstairs by the chain? For me it sounds exactly like that.

 

Does it only happen when you dry steer (steering while stationary)?

 

If so, you really shouldn't be dry steering.

 

It could also be the clock "spring", it is a coil of ribbon cables inside your steering wheel that could be hopping slightly when dragging against the inside of the steering wheel when turning back to the center

No, it does not happen only when stationary – “dry” steering.

 

I would rather call it “cold” steering. As I have mentioned when I need the car in the morning when is still quite cold around 5 C that it does the sound, and decreasingly vanishes around 15 – 20 minutes’ drive. Does not matter stationery or driving.

 

When I need the car after launch time, when it becomes more “hot” around 15 it does not do the sound at all even at beginning. Really strange, but like everything with this particular car.

 

By /clock "spring"/ do you mean this part - https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/5q0953569-airbag-ring-skoda-24874.html ? I hope not and it´s something other. Quite expensive considering the fact that in authorised Skoda Garage they are deaf, blind and stupid all in one and I would have to probably change out of my pocket somewhere out of Skoda Garages.