1.4 TSI clicking noise under load!!

[cktsi]

btw the charger click/squeek issue only usually appears after around 3-4000kms from new

-steve

No, I'm describing a very different problem to the supercharger squeak. That's a separate issue altogether.

As creniac said, it's intermittent. My noise is accompanied by a plume of unburnt fuel... and the 3rd time it happened my car also broke down & had to be towed.

In that case an injector port was replaced, but I can't say it solved the problem cos last weekend my car did the click & fuel plume 3 times - as opposed to the previous record of 3 times in 3 months.

[Creniac]

Guys, it seems a guy with a polo GTI has just experienced a similar clicking to my Jetta from the same side (right hand).... I tried again today to get it to do it again but no issues.... wierd?? CK, I see your query about plumes of smoke, loss of power... in my case no not at all, just this intermittent metallic clicking /creaking noise which i last heard on Sunday.... I am starting to wonder if it's something else if a Polo driver just experienced a similar noise??? suspension, bushes front wheel bearings...... who knows.????????????????

[POLARBEAR666]

Is anyone with a mk5 TSI 1.4 having issues?

Seems only mk6 atm.

[GTom]

Is anyone with a mk5 TSI 1.4 having issues?

Seems only mk6 atm.

I had a couple but nothing major....

But how many 1.4 GTs are on this forum.... and how many were sold?

[POLARBEAR666]

SOLVED?

[Fanaki]

Is anyone with a mk5 TSI 1.4 having issues?

Seems only mk6 atm.

no problems on my end.... well nothing that i've noticed.

[Creniac]

Well, still no issue since last Sunday........ that very loud "WTF was that noise" aka "loud consecutive clicks" has not been heard since????

[cktsi]

no problems on my end.... well nothing that i've noticed.

Is yours a DSG or manual? I'm thinking it might be specific to 1.4 TSI with a DSG and could either be an ECU problem in co-ordinating the engine/supercharger with the DSG.... or it could be the clutch plates for the supercharger engaging & disengaging as per an earlier reply (i.e. not engaging properly once & for all).

There's no loss of power when it happens to me. I got my car back on Tuesday from VW and they couldn't replicate it. Lo & behold the problem was back on Thursday night. The car runs smoothly in general though.

[logger]

Is yours a DSG or manual? I'm thinking it might be specific to 1.4 TSI with a DSG and could either be an ECU problem in co-ordinating the engine/supercharger with the DSG.... or it could be the clutch plates for the supercharger engaging & disengaging as per an earlier reply (i.e. not engaging properly once & for all).

Hey CK, Why implicate the ECU, Have you heard of occam's razor? Whats wrong with Polarbears simple explanation fingering the friction plate return, from what I assume is a VW tech manual?

[Fanaki]

Is yours a DSG or manual?

manual, 6sp manual

[Stoney!]

Also having the same problem with my Mk6 118tsi. Took it in, they replaced the water pump without even looking at it (has the clutch on it) The noise went away fro a while but now it's back... But rarely happens, before it might happen a couple of times a week, now it's only around once or twice a month... annoying and they power output misbehaves when it does it. But unless it gets worse again I can't be bothered, give it to bill buckle and your car gets returned with nothing done and a big NO FAULT FOUND on the reciept.

Stoney!