Fri 30 Mar 2018 20:30. SEAT Leon ST - engine and road noise - Engineer Andy. As most regulars know we had a 2013 1.4 TSi SE 140PS for about 4 years and we could not fault it. The engine was silent and there was no appreciable road noise on the 205 55 16 Michelins or Kleber Quadraxer tyres.
Two issues surrounding this preventative maintenance action:-1) this action is being described in a generic way, on these 1.2TSI engines and some others of a similar design, the water pump is located at the other end of the engine and so is not involved with the cam belt at all - that inclusion when replacing a cam belt was probably correct for every other cam belt change as very little extra Skoda Octavia - reliability of 1.2 TSI engine - Engineer Andy : Ditto - I'm thinking about replacing my 6yo Mazda3 saloon with possibly a Skoda Rapid/Seat Toledo or Seat Leon (2013 model) with one of the TSI engines, but given some of the problems of the similar VAG TFSI-supecharged small engines (timing chains snapping), I will wait until they've all "bedded in" for a few years. . 998 643 847 576 979 577 604 931