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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: benvictors on 22 August 2011, 20:57

Title: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 22 August 2011, 20:57
Is this terrible annoying noise a fooooked CV joint
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jX9ucclv3k
If so is there a fix or is it straight replacement.
Cheers in advance
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: F17BAD on 22 August 2011, 20:59
haha quality video mate

Need new one if its deffo the CV joint mate, did you feel any play ?
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 22 August 2011, 21:01
haha quality video mate

Need new one if its deffo the CV joint mate, did you feel any play ?

No play and dunt make a sound in reverse  :undecided:
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: F17BAD on 22 August 2011, 21:03
it makes a sound when out of gear tho yea?

i still think CV joint, im gonna get russ to look at the video
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 22 August 2011, 21:06
Ye even coasting it makes that noise
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: tshirt2k on 22 August 2011, 21:11
Don't sound like a cv joint to me! Sounds like a rubbing. A cv is more metallic on an outer, inners usually are felt as a rumble.  How longs it been happening? What suspension do you have?
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: barrym381 on 22 August 2011, 21:12
have you checked the wheel bearings mine broke up on my mk4 turbo an wasnt to far away from that noise
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: tshirt2k on 22 August 2011, 21:16
Obvious question. But are your wheel bolts tight? I see wheels have been added recently.
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 22 August 2011, 21:35
Ye checked for rubbing, wheel bolt tightness etc etc, started about 4 days ago and has gradually got worse, my initial thought was wheel bearing but there is no play in the wheel and doesnt sound like the normal wheel bearing sound, the sound almost goes away on hard right.
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: tshirt2k on 22 August 2011, 21:55
What did you do 4 days ago? Sounds like something simple dont sound cv or bearing related. It's like a creak but sounds rubbery as the speed gets up. You tried changing wheels to eliminate those. Possible high offset problem?? Hard to tell from the vid.
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 22 August 2011, 22:00
Everything has been fine up until a few days ago, started very quiet and has gradually got louder as ive used her which makes me think something is wearing out, Thats whats making me think bearing or cv
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: tshirt2k on 22 August 2011, 22:06
Unless the grease has come out of the cv then they don't usually make noise and when they do it's clicks. Sounds like it's only at one point on the wheel revolution. Does braking affect it?
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 22 August 2011, 22:23
When heavy braking the noise does quieten somewhat but is still present, my cv boots are all intact. Its fecking annoying i know that much :embarassed:
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: Leon27 on 22 August 2011, 22:49
Have you jacked it up and just spun the wheel? Even better get it on a ramp and drive it, it would be easier to isolate the noise unless its only under load.

Agree with tshirt2k to doing a wheel swap, maybe from left to right, I've had tyres causing random noises but this is a new one!
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: barrym381 on 22 August 2011, 23:29
Ye checked for rubbing, wheel bolt tightness etc etc, started about 4 days ago and has gradually got worse, my initial thought was wheel bearing but there is no play in the wheel and doesnt sound like the normal wheel bearing sound, the sound almost goes away on hard right.
the casing that holds the bearings in had cracked on my mk4 an you could only hear the noise when driving was no play in it either
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 23 August 2011, 09:49
Thanks for all the reply's people  :smiley: I have a spare hub at home so im just going to change the whole thing rather than replacing one thing and then it being the other  :rolleyes:
Once I have my hub off I will strip it down to find out exactly what the problem is.
Watch this space  :cool:
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: tshirt2k on 23 August 2011, 15:10
Apart from the bearing, theres not much to the hub. Can't see that being a cure unless the bearing is fooked. Get brad round to look & listen whilst you move back and forward. Sound like something is warped and rubbing. Rotate the wheel whilst on the jack etc.
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 23 August 2011, 22:45
OK, coming home tonight the noise is now getting louder and a can now feel there is something a miss in the pedals too  :shocked:
Everything ive checked up to press seems to be fine, nothing loose or rattly. I did notice that when the car is jacked up the noise is nearly non existant but disc catches the pad on one part of a revolution as if it is warped slightly  :undecided:
I dont have the time to take it all apart again before the weekend so it looks as tho im car-less AGAIN!!! until then  :angry: :cry: :angry: :sad:
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: F17BAD on 23 August 2011, 22:49
ill come up for a bit tomo after we take the engine craine back..
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 23 August 2011, 23:04
ill come up for a bit tomo after we take the engine craine back..

Nice 1 brother, it real bad now!!!!!!
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: tshirt2k on 24 August 2011, 12:13
Do you have long wheel bolts? Or a longer locking wheel bolt?
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 24 August 2011, 15:14
Do you have long wheel bolts? Or a longer locking wheel bolt?
No mate, standard bolts.
What if a few of my split rim bolts were loose?!??
Me an Kells are gonna have a proper look at it tonite anyhow.
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: tshirt2k on 24 August 2011, 15:49
anythings possible if its something new and it wasnt like it before. thats why i suggested changing wheels.
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: F17BAD on 24 August 2011, 21:02
Solved, ben is happy again  :nerd: :cool:
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: benvictors on 24 August 2011, 21:14
Solved, ben is happy again  :nerd: :cool:

Happy im not dead ha ha  :shocked: :shocked:
Turns out I didn't torque up one of my split rims before I put them on  :shocked: :embarassed: :embarassed:
Most of them weren't even hand tight  :shocked:
Guess thats what you get for being an eager beever  :smiley:
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: Seanl on 24 August 2011, 21:27
I've done it twice, once a couple of weeks ago when I first got the car back on the road, and again the other day after fannying about with the ABS sensor. keep getting images in my head of the hub planting itself into the road, as my wheel rolls off into the distance!  :grin: :embarassed:
Title: Re: CV Joint
Post by: Screech16v on 24 August 2011, 21:42
Solved, ben is happy again  :nerd: :cool:

Happy im not dead ha ha  :shocked: :shocked:
Turns out I didn't torque up one of my split rims before I put them on  :shocked: :embarassed: :embarassed:
Most of them weren't even hand tight  :shocked:
Guess thats what you get for being an eager beever  :smiley:


Did you use loctite/threadlock also?