Hiya,

My Monte is doing pretty well but I think the chain is getting a bit noisy. How does this sound to everyone?

It’s a 63 plate 1.2 TSI 105 and is on 115K. it’s been serviced annually/10k since new and I’ve owned it since 22k/11 months old.

And there’s a video. I’m fairly convinced that I should get it checked out at least - it didn’t used to be that noisy and I think that’s the chain?

Our sounds like this and I think is has for some amount of time (like, years).

It's done 80k miles.

There's an occasional noise on startup / after an oil change on ours, too.

Thanks for that, I ended up leaving it for now. It hasn't got any worse and usually sounds better. I think my worry was prompted by getting a second fabia (another 2013 1.2 TSI 105, but with only 50k on the clock) where the chain is way quieter.

On 02/09/2025 at 10:45, NotQuiteAVrs said:

Thanks for that, I ended up leaving it for now. It hasn't got any worse and usually sounds better. I think my worry was prompted by getting a second fabia (another 2013 1.2 TSI 105, but with only 50k on the clock) where the chain is way quieter.

From the audio I can hear that is getting a little bit extended, not a big problem for now, it depends on the use of the car. If you are always sending it, I believe is better to start to thinking of replacing it it's quite easy to do after all is only one chain for the crankshaft to the camshaft and one for the oil pump but if local to you, you know someone that have vcds there is a parameter in the engine module to verify the chain elongation, the range is from 0 to 5% (i'm actually a bit lower of 2,5% with a 7 years old chain and 100k km later), (keep in mind that at 5% you will hear a horrendous rattling noise and at 5 is red code to replace it, and it's very risky to drive it. If I can give my personal advice, like I do every time i use the car or i service it, do oil changes every 5-6k miles and let the car warm up, like don't start it and drive off immediately, let the oil circulate for about 20–30 seconds, and after an intense use, let it cool down like driving it normally for the last 2-3 miles or park the car and let it run for a copule of minute with the heater on full blast in defrost position.

I would not be using VW504 00 / 507 00 so 5w 30 FS III, long life oil.

Try VW502 00 which is Fixed Services only and will be 5w 40 FS.

Just now, Ootohere said:

I would not be using VW504 00 / 507 00 so 5w 30 FS III, long life oil.

Try VW502 00 which is Fixed Services only and will be 5w 40 FS.

I agree i'm using royal purple VW502.00 5w40 and it is really quiet.