Mystery of the crinkly leaves.

[BunnyJen]

The other evening I was driving home when I noticed a really annoying noise coming from my dashboard area. It sounded like a mixture between white noise and rattling. Drove me nuts. Brought my dad out to investigate and we spent 20 minutes driving around trying to figure out where it was coming from. It got worse the faster I went and I was starting to get worried. Having found no solution I decided to go home and take it to VW at the weekend....Upon pulling into the garage my dad took a look under the bonnet and noticed a tonne of dry leaves and seeds had fallen off the tree I'd been parked under and had gotten lodged in the well behind the windscreen wipers. He rustled them about and it was the noise!!!! I felt kinda stupid after that but couldn't believe how much noise some leaves had made.

Ah well, my first Rocco mystery solved!

[stono]

Haha brilliant, I wonder how much you would have been charged for leaf removal!

[Thommohawk]

Here was me thinking it was April the 1st. You've really never came across leaves stuck in a similar place before?

[ZephyR]

I get a similar noise when my wipers reach the far left. I'd better have a look it could be the same thing.

[Kev]

Yeah I've had that crackly buzzing noise too. Took me a good while to work it out as well!

I thought it was a dodgy radio connection at first until I noticed it stopped when I was sitting in traffic.

[dstill]

Pleased you got it sorted mate. Bit of advice though, i would try not to leave your car parked under trees if you can help it, the sap plays havoc with your paintwork.

[RW1]

I'll add to that....

Check the drain holes in the left & right corners are not blocked by bits leaf debris. I had a windy day around here a few days ago which resulted in a few leaves from trees a fair distance away getting into the corner pocket areas. Had to unblock both drain holes with the tail end of a large tie-wrap to get the water to drain. The drain hole is on the same flat surface as the small round holes, just slightly blow, oblong in shape.

If the left side is blocked, it can result in water entering via the Cabin AirCon air intake and a flooded front left (passenger side) foot well. The intake grille is just visible through the honeycomb'd area of small round holes about 0.5cm above the drain hole. The honeycomb of small round holes is the outer intake grille to the AirCon air intake. (Same for LHD, just the intake is on the right hand side of the Scirocco.)

C.

[skippy]

Yes - I have had this also, even found a 'cooked' snail under the bonnet !

[BunnyJen]

Pleased you got it sorted mate. Bit of advice though, i would try not to leave your car parked under trees if you can help it, the sap plays havoc with your paintwork.

Tell me about it!

I have no choice sadly it's the only space I can park in at work under a stupid tree. I go home and look like a nutter washing my car at 9pm in the pitch black to get rid of the blasted tree sap.

I'll add to that....

Check the drain holes in the left & right corners are not blocked by bits leaf debris. I had a windy day around here a few days ago which resulted in a few leaves from trees a fair distance away getting into the corner pocket areas. Had to unblock both drain holes with the tail end of a large tie-wrap to get the water to drain. The drain hole is on the same flat surface as the small round holes, just slightly blow, oblong in shape.

If the left side is blocked, it can result in water entering via the Cabin AirCon air intake and a flooded front left (passenger side) foot well. The intake grille is just visible through the honeycomb'd area of small round holes about 0.5cm above the drain hole. The honeycomb of small round holes is the outer intake grille to the AirCon air intake. (Same for LHD, just the intake is on the right hand side of the Scirocco.)

C.

Thanks RW1 that's useful info! I had that problem with my Clio when I first bought it. The owners had left it under a tree and it'd gotten so clogged the carpets inside were all squishy. yuk!