Was heading to city Hall last night for a night out. Came off M1 and as I slowed on the slip road the car started making an awful scraping sceexhing sound, like metal on metal. Limped it down the Parkway and it was awful, sounded like I was murdering the car.

At a stop it wasn't making any noises, as soon as I pulled away it made it again and was really really loud, didn't seem to really alter with road speed like it was brake related and didn't realize change frequency or pitch with rotation of the wheels, just whenever moving.

FSH car with Skoda, had a new water pump and timing belt on it, aux belt looks fine, pads and discs as I expected are still almost like new. As I put ferodo discs and oads on front maybe within last year and brembo discs and lads on read before MOT in Dec.

After a while of limping it to the car park the noise just went away on its own I was gonna call my breakdoen out after the concert but I tried it and it was fine to drive. Making no noise this morning that is obvious but I can hear an odd noise around the timing belt area that I can't say if has always been present.

Really don't know what to think anyone has something similar on a VRS diesel?

It's gotten me a bit worried as it's my only car and I need it Sunday for work.

It was low on oil again mind it was serviced late Nov maybe a litre ir so needed, it does seem to use a bit of oil but again I think that seems to be normal with this engine.

I'm at a loss with it right now.

Ignore me, sorry i edited, i see now in your post vRS TDI, and on your profile a 2018. PS, a litre low in engine oil is a pretty bad thing. Are you sure only 1 litre when you check the Oil & normal operating temp, sop an indicated 90*oC or so, parked on flat a few minutes after stopping. Like 4 or 5 minutes is few.

Edited 17 April17 Apr by Evolution13

32 minutes ago, Evolution13 said:

Ignore me, sorry i edited, i see now in your post vRS TDI, and on your profile a 2018. PS, a litre low in engine oil is a pretty bad thing. Are you sure only 1 litre when you check the Oil & normal operating temp, sop an indicated 90*oC or so, parked on flat a few minutes after stopping. Like 4 or 5 minutes is few.

Running at normal oil temp, normal coolant temp, no lack of power, no smoke drives perfectly fine today. It's always used some oil since I bought it in 2023, in fact every diesel car, van and truck I've ever driven use some oil over time. Like I said I put maybe a litre max maybe only half a litre in to get it to halfway on the dipstick, tbh I should check it more often than i do.

I don't think I've checked it since it's service and MOT in November. Naughty me.

I always let it complete dpf regens, never seen the dpf light on unless it's near 100% soot loading and I force it to do a field regen at a suitable time for me with carista.

I don't drive it hard very often and never from cold. Never had any warning lights on dash in my ownership.

It's like it never happened took it for another road test after having a look round everything, no obvious leaks or anything.

It's a right Toyah Wilcox (anyone of a similar age to me will get that).

The way I would describe it was like pads down to the rivets but also maybe worse than that, should have seen the looks I was getting driving through Sheffield city centre!

Then it just stopped and has not come back so maybe was just a stone that flicked up and got caught between something like disc or driveshaft etc, it also had a new wheel bearing while under warranty at Skoda.

It's now done 76k miles so now under average for its age as well.