My Gti has developed a moaning noise??

[Phil mcavity]

sorry ade, its someone on a different forum to this one, who hates edition 30's and just post pointless topics and just generally p$sses people off in there.

[stokeballoon]

Have a moaning noise from my tyres around 60 - 80 mph, took it to Micheldever Tyres to get the tyres looked at and they told me that the rear tyres were stepped, that this was caused by the suspension and that the noise will be there until I change the rear tyres and that I would have to put up with the noise for as long as possible. Essentially nothing I can do until I replace the rears. Advice was once I have changed rears I should rotate them regularly to prolong the length of time before it happens again.

Ade

My money is on the rear tyres.  Have a look at the inner edges and i reckon they will be like a saw blade on the inner edge, with the fwd edge of one tread block being lower than the rear edge of the tread block in front.

hence the fwd motion of the car causes a droning noise akin to a Land-rover.

[ade1703]

I am sure that you are right, that is how they kind of described it to me, but the question remains how do I stop it happening in future, is there something wrong with the setup? do you all get it on your GTi

[182_blue]

I think its called Mr Crabster!!! thats the problem with your GTi, if you visit the uk mkiv's forum, you'll know what im on about!

LMAO, he's such a tool

[Cass]

Must admit my Dunlop Sport Maxx tyres have been very noisy on all but the smoothest of road surfaces since about 500 -750 miles after delivery. Performance is OK though and I've just learned to live with them

Not sure this problem is related to tyres - car needs to be taken to dealer to diagnose the fault.

Cass

[winrya]

Thanks for the feedback guys

I'm pretty sure its not tyres, i struggle to see how it could start all of a sudden and no handbrake turns or extreme driving

I'm not sure if its connected but i heard/felt a "ping" sound from the front right of my car turning onto my drive a few weeks back.  Initially i thought i had scraped the underside going onto my drive, but as i straightened the steering it "pinged" again (hasn't done it since).

I'm currently waiting for 4 new monza's to arrive under warranty.  I reported this sound i heard 2 days before the warranty ran out so they will be looking into this noise at the same time.  Hopefully i can convince them this noise has now resulted in this "moaning" noise.  Which to be honest, i think it has been there ever since??

How easy is it to diagnose bearing problems?  Sounds like I might get fobbed off

I dont mind paying to be honest- as long as its fixed, i will be shipping the car on if this sound is going to be joining me on a daily basis