Scraping noise from front wheel?

[p3eps]

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?

[Neil gti]

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 
Wheel off job and slightly bend the backplate away from the disc and it should fall out,

[p3eps]

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!

[Neil gti]

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 
Keep trying it around the full plate, failing that wheel off time 

[Exonian]

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

[Gazdebaz]

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.

[gizzywizzy]

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. 

[Gazdebaz]

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

[SilverChariot]

I carry a thin long stick in the boot

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

[Snoopy]

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