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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: p3eps on 21 May 2011, 20:53

Title: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: p3eps on 21 May 2011, 20:53

I was driving along this afternoon and there was a scraping noise coming from my drivers side front wheel.  I thought it was a chuckie from my fiancee's parents driveway that was stuck somewhere - so when leaving the next junction I planted my foot and wiggled the steering wheel a bit... and it seemed to go away.

We've just been out for dinner, and on the way home along a 50mph bit of road the scraping started again and turned into a high pitched whining noise.  It still sounds like a small stone or something is trapped somewhere and is screeching against something.  I've had a look but can't see anything for the brakes... plus its pouring of rain.  It comes and goes - but it was soooo loud that people in the street were staring at me.

Any ideas?  It did it for a day or two straight after I had the car serviced about a month ago... but then went away.
Getting to VW is a pain in the butt - so I hope its something simple I can fix?

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: Neil gti on 22 May 2011, 07:19

It happened to me a while back,
After a couple of days i took the wheel off and it was a stone trapped between the disc and the backplate,
Don't think it can be anything else, so if it has been there a couple of days its not coming out on its own  :cry:
Wheel off job and slightly bend the backplate away from the disc and it should fall out,

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: p3eps on 22 May 2011, 10:09

Thanks for the reply. So I need to push the metal plate behind the disk towards the body of the car and hope a stone falls out?
I'm wondering if I can manage that without removing the wheel - as the Talladegas have quite a bit of clearance for getting a hand through them!

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: Neil gti on 22 May 2011, 10:16

Quote from: p3eps on 22 May 2011, 10:09

Thanks for the reply. So I need to push the metal plate behind the disk towards the body of the car and hope a stone falls out?
I'm wondering if I can manage that without removing the wheel - as the Talladegas have quite a bit of clearance for getting a hand through them!

Yes have a go a tapping the edge of the backing plate with a block of wood by pushing it towards the body  :wink:
Keep trying it around the full plate, failing that wheel off time  :angry:

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: Exonian on 22 May 2011, 10:29

I can sympathise, bloody horrible noise! Sometimes just a bit of sudden and quick reversing is all that's needed to shift the bleeder.

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: Gazdebaz on 24 May 2011, 13:03

This has happened to me a couple of times, usually on the back wheels. I carry a thin long stick in the boot, insert through the alloys and as mentioned just push the backplate away from the disc, stone usually falls out.

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: gizzywizzy on 24 May 2011, 13:31

Quote from: Gazdebaz on 24 May 2011, 13:03

This has happened to me a couple of times, usually on the back wheels. I carry a thin long stick in the boot, insert through the alloys and as mentioned just push the backplate away from the disc, stone usually falls out.

Heh nice to see you back posting again.  :smiley:

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: Gazdebaz on 24 May 2011, 15:11

Been ill for a while,  :sick: have been keeping an eye on things. Golf still going well and enjoying it,

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: SilverChariot on 24 May 2011, 15:20

Quote from: Gazdebaz on 24 May 2011, 13:03

I carry a thin long stick in the boot

Yeah... me too... here's a photo to prove it:

(http://img.listal.com/image/736012/600full.jpg)

Title: Re: Scraping noise from front wheel?
Post by: Snoopy on 26 May 2011, 18:39

Common problem with the mk6 golf this. I have answered this a few times on the forums.