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Hi All,
I've noticed an annoying rattle (aren't they all!) which appears to be coming from the vicinity of the driver's footwell in my 1yr old 125TSi. It sounds like a robust metallic rattle, which only happens on trailing throttle, and seems to be at any speed, on any surface, and does not seem to be linked to engine load at the time when throttle is removed. For a while, I thought it was the accelerator pedal itself, but it is almost impossibe to apply even slight pressure to the pedal without the engine responding and thereby removing the "trailing throttle" condition". Now it is possible that the noise is coming from the engine bay, but I'm reasonably confident that it's in the cabin. It generally lasts just long enough to begin to get a fix - and the disappears. It's slowly driving me nuts!
Only a couple of thousand ks to the next service, and I'm sure I'll invite my friendly VW tech for a drive - the problem is easily to demonstrate, but hard to pinpoint. Any ideas?
thanks & regards,
John
I've noticed an annoying rattle (aren't they all!) which appears to be coming from the vicinity of the driver's footwell in my 1yr old 125TSi. It sounds like a robust metallic rattle, which only happens on trailing throttle, and seems to be at any speed, on any surface, and does not seem to be linked to engine load at the time when throttle is removed. For a while, I thought it was the accelerator pedal itself, but it is almost impossibe to apply even slight pressure to the pedal without the engine responding and thereby removing the "trailing throttle" condition". Now it is possible that the noise is coming from the engine bay, but I'm reasonably confident that it's in the cabin. It generally lasts just long enough to begin to get a fix - and the disappears. It's slowly driving me nuts!
Only a couple of thousand ks to the next service, and I'm sure I'll invite my friendly VW tech for a drive - the problem is easily to demonstrate, but hard to pinpoint. Any ideas?
thanks & regards,
John
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