Hi all,
New member here. I've recently been having a few issues with my 58 reg Insignia CDTI recently, I've only owned the car for just over 2 months and I noticed the issue starting to develop about a week after buying my car. Basically, when I'm in first gear and just on the biting point I will notice my car tends to make this awful squeaking noise almost like a seizing sound.
I've been in contact with the garage I bought my Insignia from as they sold it with a 6 month 'no quibble' warranty, least to say they haven't been the most helpful. The first time I took it back they scratched their head and basically put it down to "that's just a thing these cars do, it's no harm to your car". Obviously the problem developed further and occasionally the sound will travel through second and third gear in situations where I'm in start/stop traffic and the clutch is being used regularly. The last time I took the car to the garage was yesterday and they said they couldn't get the squeak to happen and they seemed to think it was a problem with the brakes and they think they fixed the issue. I picked the car up today and the problem still persists - it only took about ten minutes for the issue to start again and this time I caught it on video for you to all try and diagnose. In the video you'll hear it several times as I come on and off the clutch, the noise seems to be emitting from the engine bay.
I get the feeling that the garage are trying to palm it off to avoid large expenses if it is an issue with the clutch. I noticed that the clutch use to feel a lot heavier before I noticed the problem and now it feels a lot lighter to push the clutch pedal in.
I really do want to sort this issue out, the car is absolutely amazing apart from this extremely baffling problem - I want to be able to use my car without the fear something may go wrong. The thing is, if this car is going to be a problem child I really want to give it back to the garage and move on from them and probably buy a car elsewhere.
If anyone could help I'd greatly appreciate it!
Cheers,
Al
New member here. I've recently been having a few issues with my 58 reg Insignia CDTI recently, I've only owned the car for just over 2 months and I noticed the issue starting to develop about a week after buying my car. Basically, when I'm in first gear and just on the biting point I will notice my car tends to make this awful squeaking noise almost like a seizing sound.
I've been in contact with the garage I bought my Insignia from as they sold it with a 6 month 'no quibble' warranty, least to say they haven't been the most helpful. The first time I took it back they scratched their head and basically put it down to "that's just a thing these cars do, it's no harm to your car". Obviously the problem developed further and occasionally the sound will travel through second and third gear in situations where I'm in start/stop traffic and the clutch is being used regularly. The last time I took the car to the garage was yesterday and they said they couldn't get the squeak to happen and they seemed to think it was a problem with the brakes and they think they fixed the issue. I picked the car up today and the problem still persists - it only took about ten minutes for the issue to start again and this time I caught it on video for you to all try and diagnose. In the video you'll hear it several times as I come on and off the clutch, the noise seems to be emitting from the engine bay.
I get the feeling that the garage are trying to palm it off to avoid large expenses if it is an issue with the clutch. I noticed that the clutch use to feel a lot heavier before I noticed the problem and now it feels a lot lighter to push the clutch pedal in.
I really do want to sort this issue out, the car is absolutely amazing apart from this extremely baffling problem - I want to be able to use my car without the fear something may go wrong. The thing is, if this car is going to be a problem child I really want to give it back to the garage and move on from them and probably buy a car elsewhere.
If anyone could help I'd greatly appreciate it!
Cheers,
Al
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