It is rarely ever pleasant to acknowledge an injector noise on your Seat Ateca. It is a noise that comes up frequently, usually when you accelerate or your engine is idling. However, this indication may be related to multiple kind of problems with your vehicle injectors. It may not be anything severe, but when a frequent noise appears, you have to be sure. Especially since repairing your Seat Ateca’s injectors can be costly. That’s why our team chose to write this content page in order to help you see more clearly, learn about the different conceivable failures and distinguish your issue. To do this, we will first look at the normal running and usefulness of the injectors in your Seat Ateca, then at the conceivable reasons from which an injector noise may come.
Functions of the injectors
Injectors are a very vital element of the operation of your engine. They were released to the modern cars about 20 years ago. Before their appearance, more conventional carburettor-type intake systems were used, which handled the intake of air and fuel into the engine cylinders. With the injectors, manufacturers now have the possibility, thanks to the injectors pump, to control electronically each stage of the intake process very accurately (quantity of fuel injected, air/fuel mixture) via the analysis of the data collected from the various sensors equipping the vehicle (engine temperature, acceleration level, engine speed, etc.). Their goal is therefore to inject under high pressure a precise quantity of an air/fuel mixture at a perfect timing to obtain the best possible combustion in the cylinders.
The different causes of a clicking or knocking noise caused by the injectors of your Seat Ateca
Experiencing injector noises on your Seat Ateca may result from different sources, we will now look into the potential causes of these. In general, the common noise of a faulty injector is of the snap type. Here are the different origins of these noises and the solutions to be implemented to get rid of them. If you acknowledge another clicking noise but it is not from your injectors, we encourage you to go through this content page about clicking noise on Seat Ateca to locate the trigger.
The explanations for injector clicking or knocking noise Seat Ateca
A clicking or knocking noise from your injectors can be justified by different explanations. In fact, the injectors of your Seat Ateca have three main missions, to manage the vaporisation of the fuel, i.e., to transform the liquid into “gas” during injection, to facilitate its combustion. Then, its mission is to control the air/fuel dosage and finally the homogeneity of the mixture, always with the aim of improving combustion. If one of these three features is altered, the main functionality of the injectors will be disturbed and this will lead to poor combustion. This bad combustion will be a violent explosion in the cylinders due to bad timing, or a bad quantity of mixture or finally an inhomogeneous mixture and will induce thoses knocking or clicking noises on your Seat Ateca. The main trigger of these concerns commonly originates from a particle that gets into the injectors. The precision of the injector being in the nanometer range, any possible blockage will inevitably end in a malfunction of the injector. If after checking, this noise originates from another element of the engine of your Seat Ateca, have a look at this content page for more infos.
The end result of injector noise on Seat Ateca
Now that we have examined the diverse reasons for injector noise on your Seat Ateca, we will end by stating the possible effects of malfunctioning one or more of your injectors. Whether only one is blocked, or broken, or your entire fuel rail is involved, you cannot escape these repercussions which can promptly become severe….
First, you risk destroying your exhaust system in the long run, because the unburned fuel residues that will end up in your exhaust system can corrode the metal in it.
One of the most known effects experienced by drivers is a serious loss of power. In fact, if your engine is running on 3 out of 4 cylinders for example, you will obviously have a loss of power
Finally, you risk degrading one of your pistons or your engine. Poor combustion will promptly damage your cylinders or pistons and your engine may tighten.
Here are three little recommendations to limit the risks connected to your injectors and protect you from engine failure:
- Do not drive at the bottom of the tank, as you may absorb impurities
- Use quality fuel
- Think of changing your diesel fuel filter regularly>
