Right--this time it's serious

[HopeImRight]

Earlier this year I began a thread on the click click in my door. And how a dealer took my door to bits ,found nothing, reassembled it, got shirty and almost said I was hearing things, how something clattered inside my door after the "repair" BUT the click had gone.

Well the click click has returned. As bad as ever.

This time I am going to take the door to bits myself. I have nothing to lose except my sanity if I don't get rid of this noise.

I've found two screws at the base of the door. I assume the panel is held on with clips. I'm told they can break. If I have trouble I'll use pop rivets or self tappers. It won't look good but it will be in keeping with the overall quality I'm experiencing with this car.

Please has anyone any tips advice tricks pitfalls they can tell me about taking Octavia 2 door panels off. Please.

[jimvrs]

sounds like a loose or worn check strap to me

[GAFF]

I thought I noticed something similiar before for the B pillar (one with seat belt), only really when it rains, but I don't think its the rain that causes it. It doesn't occur when dry.

[GAFF]

Originally Posted by jimvrs

sounds like a loose or worn check strap to me

Whats that ?

[TrevorB33]

pretty common, as you look at the hinge side of the door, there will be two hinges one at the top and one at the bottom, then the check strap will be in the middle, therir is usaully a ten mm nut that works loose, is the noise only when opening and closing?

[postmanpat]

Originally Posted by TrevorB33

pretty common, as you look at the hinge side of the door, there will be two hinges one at the top and one at the bottom, then the check strap will be in the middle, therir is usaully a ten mm nut that works loose, is the noise only when opening and closing?

Had this on first furb vRS, needed tightening every month or so

[HopeImRight]

Thanks
The noise is really click click on every jolt of the car. Not clack or cluck or clock but click.
If I open the door about 6 or 8 inches and bang the edge of the door forwards with the palm of my hand I can reproduce the click click.
It is somewhere in the handle edge of the door.
It is something that was not seeable when the door was dismantled.
It is something that has taken a few months to come loose again.
It is something that was tightened or adjusted that cured it when the door was put back together.
What the hell will I find inside the door that fits that description when I rip the door panel off with my teeth in a fury when the fr***in noise has finally turned me into a raving lunatic.
Please any practical advice on removing door panels.

[Spence2]

Click, Click? Try fault code 66

[HopeImRight]

After you've removed the two screws at the bottom on the door panel and snapped all the very brittle white nylon/plastic clips why wont the door panel disengage from the slot at the top of the door where the glass slides up and down?

Anyone know please.

[Tom_vRS]

have you removed the grab hanle cover and the screws under that?

[HopeImRight]

Tom --many thanks.

It was obvious to me that something was hanging on grimly but could I fathom it out? Could I hell.
Please tell how best to remove the grab handle cover without knackering it too badly.

I may need to know in th e future because just semi dismantling the door panel , giving up because I failed to find the screws you mention, and putting back the two screws at the bottom of the door panel seems to have cured it again!!!!!!??. Fingers eyes and legs crossed.

[HopeImRight]

After i failed to get the door panel off the click click was joined by an almost constant zizzing type rattle.
In a car without sqeeks or creaks this click click and rattle were driving me mad.

In the absence of any advice on how to remove the door I just went for it and tugged at the door pull top part till it came off and got all 5 screws out.

When the car went to the dealer for the clicking noise which they failed to find the morons snapped off all the white plastic clips . Some were broken and left in the door and some were broken and left in the door panel. I thought these broken bits were causing the rattle. They were not.

The thin stiff hard plastic covered wires that feed the little red blinking indicator lamp in the top edge of the door are wrapped in a sort of thin hairy black cloth which in my case had 90 per cent come unstuck and was just hanging off.
No doubt in my mind this cloth covering is to stop the exact problem I've had.

These thin wires and the black plastic connector were rattling against the grey metal plate on the inside of the door.

They are now wrapped and taped up.

Seems to have worked. If not I am so narked with this problem I shall go in and rip everything out and to hell with it. I'll wait before I replace the panel clips. Don't seem to need them really
Boring post but it might help someone.

[Spence2]

'Hope',

wasn't boring. Little creaks and rattles can be very annoying especially if otherwise the car is 'quiet'. I hope, when I get it, mine doesn't have the problem but forewarned is forearmed and that's one of the main assets of owner sites such as this.

[ric04vrs]

Originally Posted by Spence2

'Hope',

wasn't boring. Little creaks and rattles can be very annoying especially if otherwise the car is 'quiet'. I hope, when I get it, mine doesn't have the problem but forewarned is forearmed and that's one of the main assets of owner sites such as this.

i've had a creak on my Fabia VRS for about 3 months , sounded like it was coming from the dash area , but bang/tap the dash and you can't get the noise , sat in traffic last night due to M5 closed and i've found out what it is , on the VRS accelerator pedal it has a rubber pad with aluminium trim on it , the rubber pad moves on the plastic pedal causing the creak , i will be sticking the pad down tomorrow