Been there,nearly as funny as people trying to get into back seats via front doors,!!!!!!
Back door handles is always a hoot!
especially when they are drunk! 
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Back door handles is always a hoot!
especially when they are drunk! 
Had the same problem, i listened to to many people saying it was normal, it got worse and eventually lost a lot of power. Turns out it was my turbo which was on its way out. Had a new turbo fitted and the noise has gone. Get it looked at mate. Catch it before it blows compleatly and costs even more to replace
Agree ^^
Seat will tell you its fine, but its not. If you get a owl/siren/woooing noise when under 2k rpm, then it isnt normall. There is a thread somewhere that says it is because of worn out impellar bearings in the turbo.
Seen as a new turbo is about £1k for a dealer to supply and fit, they try to find a way out of fixing it. Some garages have been known to repair under waranty, although most will tell you its nothing.
If your whistle is when you are putting your foot down, then yeah thats normal!
Would you expect it to get louder as you progress up the rev range?
Mine only does this at a specific amount of revolutions (Definately sounds like something spooling up), not present at idle and not present at revs above ~2.5k...
Mine seems to disappear around 2k rpm
If i sit at a standstill, in neutral, and i rev the car up to around 2k rpm i get the sound.
I recorded this video to show what mine sounds like. Its not great quality but turn the sound up a bit, and you should hear the sound im talking about.
Also, have a read of this thread:
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228738
If i sit at a standstill, in neutral, and i rev the car up to around 2k rpm i get the sound.
I recorded this video to show what mine sounds like. Its not great quality but turn the sound up a bit, and you should hear the sound im talking about.
Also, have a read of this thread:
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228738
I test drove about 5 FR TDI's and they all sounded exactly like that.
I would fully expect a TDI with 140-170HP to sound like that.
They were all 58-09 reg with under 5k miles on the clock. Are you saying that they all had faulty turbos?
A turbo blows air and IMO that is the sound of air moving.
Your dealer does not pay £1k to replace a faulty turbo, They do the work and Seat pay them, that is how they make their money. All they need to do is be sure that the parts they replace under warrenty are actually faulty as if they are not they don't get paid.
I would fully expect a TDI with 140-170HP to sound like that.
They were all 58-09 reg with under 5k miles on the clock. Are you saying that they all had faulty turbos?
A turbo blows air and IMO that is the sound of air moving.
Your dealer does not pay £1k to replace a faulty turbo, They do the work and Seat pay them, that is how they make their money. All they need to do is be sure that the parts they replace under warrenty are actually faulty as if they are not they don't get paid.
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All I will say is that my turbo only makes a very very slight background noise.Hardly anything and I would bet its not on its way out.More convincing than a very noticeable whistling noise anyway.
Although it does sound good.
Although it does sound good.
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I test drove about 5 FR TDI's and they all sounded exactly like that.
I would fully expect a TDI with 140-170HP to sound like that.
They were all 58-09 reg with under 5k miles on the clock. Are you saying that they all had faulty turbos?
A turbo blows air and IMO that is the sound of air moving.
Your dealer does not pay £1k to replace a faulty turbo, They do the work and Seat pay them, that is how they make their money. All they need to do is be sure that the parts they replace under warrenty are actually faulty as if they are not they don't get paid.
Its not so much a fault, but if you read the thread i linked you will see an explaination as to how it is caused.
I know they dont pay money to fix things, im saying that the full charge for someone out of warranty is around £1k. I ve been in another 140tdi since owning mine, and it is silent and only whistles on throttle.
Explain why some garages replace, and some do not then?
And the thing that worries me is that my sound has got louder and alot more noticeable over the last 6 months i have owned it!
Mine started quiet but gradually got louder. It did it at high and low revs but only at low revs to start with. SEAT were useless. Will never use them again.
As for getting it replaced, cost £900 from a garage i trust.
If yours is starting to make the sound id advice get it looked at but NOT by SEAT. Go to a garage that knows there stuff. I was told buy a so called "VAG Expert Garage" that it was air passing through the front exhaust bracket. Must have had my "stupid, pull the wool over my eyes" face on that day.
As for getting it replaced, cost £900 from a garage i trust.
If yours is starting to make the sound id advice get it looked at but NOT by SEAT. Go to a garage that knows there stuff. I was told buy a so called "VAG Expert Garage" that it was air passing through the front exhaust bracket. Must have had my "stupid, pull the wool over my eyes" face on that day.
I admit that some are louder than others with the whistle/siren sound. I put this down to acoustics, IMO it's a perfectly reasonable sound for a TDI to make.
If you cover the end of your hoover with your hand whilst it is running and move your hand in different ways, you can get it to make all manor of whistle/squeek/buzz noises, none of them are from faulty bearings in the motor.
The air intake on these cars is made from all different thickness pipes and it goes round all sorts of different twists and bends as the hoses are flexible, they will all make slightly different noises.
I wouldn't mind betting that some of the people on here that have had turbos replaced under warrenty have had their noise reduced by manipulation of the intake pipes rather than the alleged replacement turbo.
If you cover the end of your hoover with your hand whilst it is running and move your hand in different ways, you can get it to make all manor of whistle/squeek/buzz noises, none of them are from faulty bearings in the motor.
The air intake on these cars is made from all different thickness pipes and it goes round all sorts of different twists and bends as the hoses are flexible, they will all make slightly different noises.
I wouldn't mind betting that some of the people on here that have had turbos replaced under warrenty have had their noise reduced by manipulation of the intake pipes rather than the alleged replacement turbo.
Mine is also the same. Been like this from new..now 4k miles still the same. Louder when cold and below 2k rpm
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Mine does it as well. Funny when new people get into the car....they think we are getting followed by the police!!!
My sister kept asking where the sirens were coming from when she was in my car at the weekend!
Been there
Thats a great one.. Always makes me laugh when people struggle with the handles!
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