Picked up 2 mates yesterday and drove out of their estate coming to a junction. Dropped my gear from second to first and had clutch on biting point reading to roll out. Then all of a sudden when I began to put on the gas - a really loud bang and the car stalled. It felt and sounded as if I had hit a kerb straight on or something! It scared the hell out of me...When I attempted to reignite the car then all was fine.. The road surface was clean and had nothing that I could have bumped into at all......

The thing is, I've never experienced such a loud thud sound upon a 1st gear stall in my 10 years of driving in 5 different cars...

Has anyone has this on their Fabia VRS SE or none SE????

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

I think this is just the PD engine. When they stall they go with one hell of a bang.

Normal AFAIK.

I think this is just the PD engine. When they stall they go with one hell of a bang.

Normal AFAIK.

yup , normal , more revs required next time methinks

Any ideas why this is? They're far noisier than any other diesel I've stalled.

I think the only way I managed to stall my Fabia was trying to pull away in 4th gear the day I bought it (I was seeing if the car was as torquey as my Disco! ) Never managed to stall it in normal operation as it seemed to have an anti-stall mechanism....

Chris

Any ideas why this is? They're far noisier than any other diesel I've stalled.

probably to do with the DMF and excess engine movement caused by the stall , although its a while since i did it and don't really want to re-acquaint myself with how violent it is when you stall it :(

I've stalled a couple of times previously in 2nd gear and the engine never produced a bang at all...That's what worried me yesterday as I didn't think it was the average stall and that something could have messed up with the car.

I've stalled a couple of times previously in 2nd gear and the engine never produced a bang at all...That's what worried me yesterday as I didn't think it was the average stall and that something could have messed up with the car.

I used mine for 80k of driving instruction... it doesn't always bang like that when stalled, but often does, depends on the circumstances.... sounds alot worse than it is, you won't have done any damage

yup, completely normal

Just to repeat what has been said ... it certainly goes with a bang so everything is probably normal. Very embarassing when carrying passengers though!:eek:

Normal, although I've not stalled mine for a long time now. Have watched other people stall it, and it is pretty violent - Usually a big lurch forward and a CLUNK.

I used mine for 80k of driving instruction... it doesn't always bang like that when stalled, but often does, depends on the circumstances.... sounds alot worse than it is, you won't have done any damage

Why did your gearbox fall off again?

Yea my dad did it to mine, I wasn't happy

I'm a driving instructor too, and the bang is a good way of scaring them into good clutch control.

I'm a driving instructor too, and the bang is a good way of scaring them into good clutch control.

lol....

and yeah tom, that was my theory, althoughnever proven however it happens a fair bit more on a learner car than for your average driver :P

my last car (fabia vRS) new gearbox at 40k..

car before (citroen C2 GT) new gearbox 40k....

wonder how long the fiats gonna last lol...... still going strong at 12k so far!

only 28k before it needs a new box then , lol , (if your lucky)