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Check your belt tension, cold and damp might be making it slip for a few seconds on start up.

Your battery isn't holding a charge, if your battery is a bit dodgy it'll show in winter when you're using heaters, heated mirrors and rear windscreen and lights all the time, new battery time by the sounds of it.

That's odd, think you're gonna need an auto electrician there mate, if it's still doing it after you disconnect from the thing is meant to warm you about then it's picking up a live from somewhere it shouldn't be.

I had a similar issues that developed into the car beeping at me every morning and the light staying on, if you look in your coolant header tank you'll see two metal pins, these get a bit gunked up, get yourself a small piece of sponge or something similar (not tissue, you don't want anything...

Mine did this a lot last year, just randomly steaming up while I'm driving, realised yesterday though that it's been pretty good this winter, I read somewhere they were prone to it and like you my carpets are dry, no water ingress, it's definitely coming from blowers. Maybe moisture building...

Well the temp issue is your thermostat, it isn't reaching full temperature in motion because air passing through the rad is cooling it down, check your fan isn't coming on from cold too, if it is point your dealer at that as well, give him hell.

Honestly I don't think my 57 plate fr is as noisy as either of them but the cupra sounds awful, could be any of the usual suspects, the chain tensioner and the l cam follower would both make it sound bad. However, if that's from cold then consider resetting the ecu, mine was done recently...

Little update, it was the turbo after all, currently getting fitted now. My wallet hurts...

Might be better off making a thread about it mate, this one's about cleaning seats, more people will see your issue and you're more likely to get help. I've not got the diesel but if you mean the belly pan I wouldn't think any pipe would be attached to it, your turbo is down there though...

Mine were quite badly water marked so I hired a carpet cleaner with small tools, worked a treat, I tried various stain removers but never really got anywhere with them.

Your aux lead should be on the centre console but if your head unit only says cd then it looks like you don't have one, check under your drivers seat for a USB/ipod connection instead, as far as I know most models had one or the other, mines a 57 plate and I've got aux but no USB.

I had the same thing, changed my battery and didn't need to reprogram the key, dunno why.

Looks like it's not the turbo! Managed to get my head under it properly and with the sound following the engine it's looking like a dry pulley/ alternator bearing, whatever it is it isn't 800 quid just for the part. Thanks for the input chaps, it's appreciated.

I just took it into a local parts place and he matched it up with one, they're nowt special.

Yeah, it sits in a recess so it seals when you tighten the cap, have a poke around with a little screwdriver, it can be hard to see but it's there, pop it off and see if it's split anywhere, they start to crack with age.

I had the same mate, take your fuel cap off and check the large O ring on it, mine had split in a few places and cost a grand total of 30p to fix.

Will do mate, gonna try to get it in my mates garage after work, every time I step out the house to have a look the fecking heavens open.

That's what I'm hoping for but as it's whistling on startup I'm not sure.

Cheers, I was hoping this isn't the case as it came on overnight instead of gradually, 45 quid is a lot better than 800!

Nobody? Every one of you has had a perfect turbo the whole time?