MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => How to Guides / Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Hendo on November 20, 2010, 06:37:25 pm

Title: Not sounding too good, any idea's.
Post by: Hendo on November 20, 2010, 06:37:25 pm
Have my edition 30 for just over a week now and it's been running fine but just over the past few days it's stared to sound a bit off.

Stared her up the other morning and it made a noise like it would if you were trying to start the car when it was already started.

Also when she sits at idle it's just not sounding good, making a tapping noise. Will this just the cold ormhas this happened to anyone else.  Might take it up to the dealers on Monday but just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas?

Thanks

Richard
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Post by: PDT on November 20, 2010, 07:23:47 pm
Difficult to diagnose over tbe web, was it bought from the main dealers?
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Post by: Hendo on November 20, 2010, 08:35:30 pm
Yeah I got it from a main dealer.
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Post by: PDT on November 20, 2010, 11:05:52 pm
In that case, call them on monday and get it booked in  :happy2:
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Post by: Gene Hunt on November 21, 2010, 07:25:57 am
Cam belt tensioner?.
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Post by: QD MBE on November 21, 2010, 11:49:03 am
I reckon the starter motor is slightly sticky, and staying engaged momentarily.  Fairly common on VW's.
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Post by: rdfcpete on November 21, 2010, 02:19:30 pm
Dont know if this helps as audible guidance Hendo, but I thought mine was running a little roughly until I heard this on youtube, it sounds exactly like mine (car in vid is a ko4 Ed30 whereas mine is a ko3 GTI - the vids decent quality hence why I found it useful to compare to)



After hearing that, I suspected mine probably isn't that rough :confused: Who knows?
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Post by: AtilaGti on November 27, 2010, 03:34:48 pm
Quote from: rdfcpete on November 21, 2010, 02:19:30 pm
Dont know if this helps as audible guidance Hendo, but I thought mine was running a little roughly until I heard this on youtube, it sounds exactly like mine (car in vid is a ko4 Ed30 whereas mine is a ko3 GTI - the vids decent quality hence why I found it useful to compare to)



After hearing that, I suspected mine probably isn't that rough :confused: Who knows?

My K03 sound like this.
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Post by: Hendo on November 28, 2010, 12:06:31 am
Sounds more like a tank than a GTi!
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Post by: ennvee on January 12, 2011, 08:30:51 pm
Hi,

So I just watched the video and on start up mine sounds like that.  It sounds a bit rough to me? is this normal?