Steering Wheel Scrape

Tigz · Post by **Tigz** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:30 pm

Yesterday the steering wheel started to make a scraping noise.
Not heard of this before, any idea what could cause it?

Biddle · Post by **Biddle** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:23 pm

Is it almost as if sand or grit has got into the steering columm?

Tigz · Post by **Tigz** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:52 pm

Yes, I think its the horn contact ring.
A couple of chaps have also suggested this.
Just didn't fancy taking the wheel off to find theres a common problem elsewhere I didn't know about.

Biddle · Post by **Biddle** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:25 pm

Yer mine does this sometimes, its a MK4 btw. But its strange because sometimes it does it and then after a while of driving you relise it has stopped. Strange

Biddle · Post by **Biddle** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:04 am

Whatever was in mine must have fallen out. I think its my cars way off telling me it needs a clean

Quite clever I think of VW to bulid in this feature

samil87 · Post by **samil87** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:24 am

mine was making a scraping noise a little while back i had forgotten about it until i read this and its actually gone now...probably some trapped dirt

JPR_polo_gti · Post by **JPR_polo_gti** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:26 am

I had this too and it sounded quite scary (expensive)
but I pulled the plastic around the column a little and the sound stopped, I think it may have come out of place and was rubbing somewhere

tomo87 · Post by **tomo87** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:09 am

i had this on my mk4........its something to do with the air bag, you can see a tiny metal clip if u look behind the wheel and you need to bend it a bit with something!

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:21 pm

Mine was doing it a little while ago but seemed to stop itself.

R.I.T.B · Post by **R.I.T.B** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:54 pm

ahhhhhhhhh!
just the topic i was about to post, i'll have a check for it later cos the noise is proper annoying!

R.I.T.B · Post by **R.I.T.B** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:55 pm

tomo87 wrote:i had this on my mk4........its something to do with the air bag, you can see a tiny metal clip if u look behind the wheel and you need to bend it a bit with something!

LEGEND!!!!! it worked, cheers mate!

tomo87 · Post by **tomo87** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:40 pm

ha nice one

thedees1 · Post by **thedees1** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:41 am

low and behold i went out this morning and reversed out my parking space, and guess what the wheel had started scraping, just as i thought to myself at last ive got everything fixed and the gti is running fine. It just seems to be one thing after another. Anyway the scraping went away after 10min of driving but i will have a look 2mor and see whats trapped