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Title: Mk5 Gti rumbling noise. Help
Post by: dean065 on 01 March 2012, 10:52

Hi everyone..

Have a problem ,a rumbling noise that sound like it is coming from the rear starts around 20 mph and gets less as you go faster,tends to get louder if i turn right say around a roundabout. I thought it was a bearing so went to local mechanic who jacked four corners and said nothing wrong. Now i haven't got a parcel shelf in the car and i have uniroyal tyres on the back surely tyres couldn't make this noise ??? Any Help would be great doing my head in !!!   :cry:

Title: Re: Mk5 Gti rumbling noise. Help
Post by: dean065 on 01 March 2012, 11:27

Quote from: dean065 on 01 March 2012, 10:52

Hi everyone..

Have a problem ,a rumbling noise that sound like it is coming from the rear starts around 20 mph and gets less as you go faster,tends to get louder if i turn right say around a roundabout. I thought it was a bearing so went to local mechanic who jacked four corners and said nothing wrong. Now i haven't got a parcel shelf in the car and i have uniroyal tyres on the back surely tyres couldn't make this noise ??? Any Help would be great doing my head in !!!   :cry:

Forgot to mention Goodyear Efficient grips on front !!!

Title: Re: Mk5 Gti rumbling noise. Help
Post by: richw911 on 01 March 2012, 17:27

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=92328.0

Title: Re: Mk5 Gti rumbling noise. Help
Post by: SRGTD on 02 March 2012, 05:48

Quote from: dean065 on 01 March 2012, 10:52

Hi everyone..

Have a problem ,a rumbling noise that sound like it is coming from the rear starts around 20 mph and gets less as you go faster,tends to get louder if i turn right say around a roundabout. I thought it was a bearing so went to local mechanic who jacked four corners and said nothing wrong. Now i haven't got a parcel shelf in the car and i have uniroyal tyres on the back surely tyres couldn't make this noise ??? Any Help would be great doing my head in !!!   :cry:

Does sound like the uneven 'sawtooth' tyre wear that many Golfs seem to suffer from. I had it on the rear tyres on my mk5 GT; started when the tyres (Bridgestones) had done about 16k miles and got progressively noisier over time.

If you do a search, you'll find other discussion threads on this and other forum websites where other owners have experienced this problem, which seems to be quite common.

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=158595.msg1460903#msg1460903

Title: Re: Mk5 Gti rumbling noise. Help
Post by: Snoopy on 06 March 2012, 20:34

I now remember reading about this on a long term MK6 GTD  Autoexpress had.
They also found that quite a few readers suffered it as others wrote in about it.
They also found quite a few of them the geometry was set incorrect from the factory. :undecided:

Im suffering what sounds like you are all talking about with only 8000 miles on the car with bridgestone tyres fitted. I will be checking the tyres at the weekend for the 50pence shape!