So I'm getting a noise , sounds like something stuck in the dashboard/ windscreen area. I did think it was the speaker in the dashboard/windscreen area. It sounds like leaves are trapped somewhere and are blowing/ rustling in the wind . Nothing in the wiper area to see, nothing under the bonnet.

Any ideas? 2023 fabia MC .

You might wish to check your car's cabin (pollen) filter to see if there's any debris in it that might be producing the rustling noise.

 

Gaining access to the filter is described in my 26 April 2024 posting in this forum thread

 

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/516188-fusebox-opening-on-mk4-fabia/

 

The front cover of the filter housing looks like this

 

 

Previously covers had a couple of 'sliders' that made removal straightforward and the method fairly obvious, but there's no sign of such sliders on my 2024 Fabia Mk 4 SE L car's cabin filter cover. The image below shows an Octavia Mk 4 filter housing with the cover off and removal of that (similar but not identical) cover was said to be not difficult (!!!).

 

 

As you may have gathered, I haven't attempted to remove my car's cabin filter as there's no need (and I can control my curiosity) but - when I checked my 2009 Roomster's cabin filter - there was some leaf debris in it.

 

(Worth updating your forum profile to reflect your change of car.)

Edited 18 September, 20241 yr by DerekU

My OCD got the better of me...

 

Once a Fabia Mk 4's glove-box has been fully lowered and the front cover of the cabin-filter's housing has become accessible, removing the front cover is indeed very easy.

 

As shown in the following image, the top edge of the cover has two 'tabs' (arrowed in green).

 

 

 

Pressing a tab firmly downwards while pulling the adjacent projection (with a hole in it) towards you will result in a click and that end of the cover's top edge  will become free. When both tabs have been treated in this way, the top edge of the cover can be pulled towards you and will then release from the three 'hinges' at its lower edge. Refitting just involves  relocating the cover on the 'hinges' and pushing its top edge away from you so that the two tabs click properly in place. 

 

Rather surprisingly (to me), my Fabia's cabin-filter does not carry a VW or Skoda marking. The filter is made (in France) by Valeo and the data on its front are shown on the photo below.

 

 

(The arrow should point downwards.)

 

 

 

My mistake, the filter DOES have a VAG reference on it - though I doubt the filter is any different to a 'generic' Valeo cabin-filter suitable for a Fabia Mk 4.

I have a similar noise at speed, partly solved by removing my C-tek charger bag from the glove box 

On 18/09/2024 at 13:50, DerekU said:

My OCD got the better of me...

 

Once a Fabia Mk 4's glove-box has been fully lowered and the front cover of the cabin-filter's housing has become accessible, removing the front cover is indeed very easy.

 

As shown in the following image, the top edge of the cover has two 'tabs' (arrowed in green).

 

 

 

Pressing a tab firmly downwards while pulling the adjacent projection (with a hole in it) towards you will result in a click and that end of the cover's top edge  will become free. When both tabs have been treated in this way, the top edge of the cover can be pulled towards you and will then release from the three 'hinges' at its lower edge. Refitting just involves  relocating the cover on the 'hinges' and pushing its top edge away from you so that the two tabs click properly in place. 

 

Rather surprisingly (to me), my Fabia's cabin-filter does not carry a VW or Skoda marking. The filter is made (in France) by Valeo and the data on its front are shown on the photo below.

 

 

(The arrow should point downwards.)

 

 

 

I've just changed mine thanks for your help, I'm having trouble with the length of time demisting, heating on full,  air-conditioning on . I shall see if this helps.

Yes mine was valeo too, I replaced with crosland from Halfords/europarts.

I'm pretty sure my 2024 Fabia's Valeo-made cabin filter is the activated carbon type.

 

This old link may be of interest regarding the Crosland brand

 

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=28684

 

A properly designed/manufactured cabin filter should be effective and still permit a good airflow. I've no personal experience of the Halfords-sold Croslands cabin filters, but if you find that the airflow is significantly better than it was with the original filter, you may perhaps wonder whether the Croslands filter (made in China?) is doing a good job. Unless I'm confident I can obtain a car part that is superior to the OE part, I'll normally fit the OE part and source it as cheaply as possible. 

I shall get the filter out of the bin ! But this is the 2nd fabia I've had with demisting problems, my 2017 fabia had water dripping from the roof, removing the sunglasses compartment revealed no insulation and a bare metal roof dripping wet.

I notice you complained about the condensation issue in 2023

 

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/488582-interior-condensation/

 

To quote the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr - Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose . 

Yes , that was the last skoda fabia I'd bought new...

My wife's 2015 Mk3 Fabia took a very long time for the inside of the windscreen to clear sometimes, I think its the very large glass area (and possibly the plastics but don't know about that).  Personally I'm happy to use a damp synthetic chamois to speed things up, then the air-con on, blower on full with sun visors angled to reflect the air back to the screen.  Even then it took (too) many minutes for the screen to clear enough to safely drive (car is always outside as we don't have a garage).  But I don't drive the car much as it's my wife's car so two (Pingi) humidify bags sit on the dash and are dried out as required, AFAIK these have helped a lot.  (The recent rear door leaking (same as on Mk1 Fabia) from the heavy rain hasn't helped but the repair won't get done until the warmer drier days return as I'm not gambling 9 year old VW plastic fitting and my health and comfort in the cold, damp, wet weather.)

 

For the cabin air filter personally I used Mann as I find their filters to be generally very good (particularly their engine oil filter for my wife's 2015 MK3, I've never been over impressed with Tosch labelled stuff for cars).  I was interested to read the link DerekU put up about Crossland, personally not a brand name I'd go for now (like many others that are just brand names now with variable quality of manufacture) but as I don't use them I don't know their quality.

 

He was right about the filters, the original is clearly different to the replacement, one carbon , the other just white ! I will now drive everywhere with air con on ..

I'm not sure after the cabin has fully warmed and dried out there's not much point keeping the air-con on but you can experiment to find out as there are many variables.  Variables include journey length and type and if you keep damp or wet bots, clothing, towels in the car.  Having the air-con on unnecessarily is to me a slight waste of mpg (not that I worry too much about mpg) and unnecessary extra drain on the car's 12v battery (not that I worry too much  about that despite what others might think) but more of a thing to think about with a 2023 VW.

 

I thought about using a carbon Mann filter but don't think I did I just used of the two (IIRC) white options as neither of us have any issues requiring them and I like to have car windows open when I can, not so easy on modern cars, but it was such an (unusually) easy job on the car I can't remember doing it really.

 

This link may be of interest

 

https://club.autodoc.co.uk/review/parts/pollen-filter

 

I don't know how the placements in the list were arrived at (based on the number of sales?) and the quality reviews are hardly scientific.

 

(When a product is advertised as 'OE quality', my immediate reaction is to ask "Says who?")

Reviews are often about the service or sometimes the customers have made mistakes, you need to see the actual comments and what they refer to.  Unless there's a specific set of parameters I take them with a pinch of salt.  Same for the often praised tyre review site, far too many variables to make a really informed decision.  But these things might give a very general overall if they don't include anomalies, or too many of them.

 

You also have to factor in customer expectations and bias (favourite brands perhaps, some perhaps too critical because of higher expectations some not critical enough).

 

As long as the performance variations aren't too wide most people won't care and will support a brand or brand name or not, or none at all and buy lowest priced they find which is fair enough.

 

 

Yeah exactly ! Anyhow I'll see how I get on, I probably won't see any difference anyway 🤷 🙃