Re: Help! Rear wheel humming noise. Polo GTi
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 1:54 pm
Is there a fix for this??? Or just deal with it? Lol
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Currently VW know about it but there is no fix for it. I've had my noise issue for close to a year now...rm55mcc wrote:Is there a fix for this??? Or just deal with it? Lol
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I'd like to do just that but since my car in under warranty with VW maintenance plan (100000KM) for 3 more years I cant touch them.silverhairs wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:01 pm This subject has now been going for 7 pages. This problem has only raised it's head with the GTI & GTI+, I've not seen any members with the 1 Ltr engine motors have these symptoms.
Now if you go back a few pages, a member did come up with the thought that it only effects the GTI & GTI+ due to larger rear disc's.
Has anybody gone into VW and expressed this thought with the dealers.
Member have taken their motors in with this problem, all seemed to have had the rear pads exchanged, but the problem slowly comes back!
I know their Polo's are still in warranty, it doesn't matter how many pads are changed, it's the enlarged discs that are the problem with harmonics.
Has any member with this problem, gone out and found if anybody also makes the same sized discs that will fit the GTI & GTI+ fitted them and see if they still moo. A slight different design of the spacers (I presume) they are ventilated will cure the problem?
If VW don't either want to help or cannot be bothered to cure this problem, you just have to do something yourself, I'd spend pounds just to get the problem fixed, if I loved the car that much. There must be somebody who race a GTI & GTI+ who have manufactured rear upgraded rear discs? It's worth a try?
The way it's going, this subject will be up too page 20.
not off a production line... well, not in the sense we think. The car is driven off the production line on to a small test track on which reverse appears not to be tested. From there they loaded on to a train/boat and shipped off to the dealers.
It’d be interesting to see VW’s pre-production test plan they developed for the Polo GTI / GTI+, what the testing entailed, and how many miles / km’s / hours pre-production testing were undertaken. I dare say not much test time is spent reversing! If pre-production vehicles did have the rear brakes humming / resonance (plus other issues), I’d be very surprised if all the issues identified during pre-production testing are fixed before the first cars start rolling off the production line.
I can see your point about keeping it untouched while under warranty, you think a bit like me! But look at the members who are fitting different exhausts, having their motors either remapped or having tuning boxes fitted, isn't 6.5 to 62 MPH fast enough? If they want speed, then think about better braking, and rid themselves of the Moooing sound? Thinking that when it comes to having a service, it won't show up on the VW testing equipment, you have to remember, these garages pay thousands of pounds a year to keep their testing equipment up to date, something that the general public cannot get their grubby little hands on.OomStu_ZA wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:49 pmI'd like to do just that but since my car in under warranty with VW maintenance plan (100000KM) for 3 more years I cant touch them.silverhairs wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:01 pm This subject has now been going for 7 pages. This problem has only raised it's head with the GTI & GTI+, I've not seen any members with the 1 Ltr engine motors have these symptoms.
Now if you go back a few pages, a member did come up with the thought that it only effects the GTI & GTI+ due to larger rear disc's.
Has anybody gone into VW and expressed this thought with the dealers.
Member have taken their motors in with this problem, all seemed to have had the rear pads exchanged, but the problem slowly comes back!
I know their Polo's are still in warranty, it doesn't matter how many pads are changed, it's the enlarged discs that are the problem with harmonics.
Has any member with this problem, gone out and found if anybody also makes the same sized discs that will fit the GTI & GTI+ fitted them and see if they still moo. A slight different design of the spacers (I presume) they are ventilated will cure the problem?
If VW don't either want to help or cannot be bothered to cure this problem, you just have to do something yourself, I'd spend pounds just to get the problem fixed, if I loved the car that much. There must be somebody who race a GTI & GTI+ who have manufactured rear upgraded rear discs? It's worth a try?
The way it's going, this subject will be up too page 20.
Bit off topic and the members with the larger 2.0 engines have the ability to do such things to their cars as it is better equipped and from my experience it is not just straight line speed that people like its the acceleration from 10mph to the speed limit. Its probably a generational thing but I myself am in favor with exhausts and tuning, after all it is a 'hot hatch'. And in regards to the mooing sound, there will probably never be an official VW fix. people will be better off fitting OEM 'approved' discs and pads.silverhairs wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 11:21 amI can see your point about keeping it untouched while under warranty, you think a bit like me! But look at the members who are fitting different exhausts, having their motors either remapped or having tuning boxes fitted, isn't 6.5 to 62 MPH fast enough? If they want speed, then think about better braking, and rid themselves of the Moooing sound? Thinking that when it comes to having a service, it won't show up on the VW testing equipment, you have to remember, these garages pay thousands of pounds a year to keep their testing equipment up to date, something that the general public cannot get their grubby little hands on.OomStu_ZA wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:49 pmI'd like to do just that but since my car in under warranty with VW maintenance plan (100000KM) for 3 more years I cant touch them.silverhairs wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:01 pm This subject has now been going for 7 pages. This problem has only raised it's head with the GTI & GTI+, I've not seen any members with the 1 Ltr engine motors have these symptoms.
Now if you go back a few pages, a member did come up with the thought that it only effects the GTI & GTI+ due to larger rear disc's.
Has anybody gone into VW and expressed this thought with the dealers.
Member have taken their motors in with this problem, all seemed to have had the rear pads exchanged, but the problem slowly comes back!
I know their Polo's are still in warranty, it doesn't matter how many pads are changed, it's the enlarged discs that are the problem with harmonics.
Has any member with this problem, gone out and found if anybody also makes the same sized discs that will fit the GTI & GTI+ fitted them and see if they still moo. A slight different design of the spacers (I presume) they are ventilated will cure the problem?
If VW don't either want to help or cannot be bothered to cure this problem, you just have to do something yourself, I'd spend pounds just to get the problem fixed, if I loved the car that much. There must be somebody who race a GTI & GTI+ who have manufactured rear upgraded rear discs? It's worth a try?
The way it's going, this subject will be up too page 20.
WHo wants to be the fastest Moooing Movers on the road?
I've kept reading the posts, but it only seems to be the GTI inc + members who wish to modify their motors, the 1 Ltr members seem quite happy with the power they have, the roads today are not built or safe enough for speed, if you want to go fast safely, do it on a race track, without putting the general public in danger!
I agree with you as I work for a company that makes electric prototype vehicles for OEM's so I know and have experienced what they are capable of, but I am only 21 and would like to experience a fast car that isn't electric, however I fear we have gone off topic heresilverhairs wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:43 pm Wait till the all electric cars come out, they will whip the behind off the GTI & +. Your looking at the more expensive motors to keep up with them
Tesla Model 3 4 door saloon Performance 0 - 62 = 3.2 seconds @ £42,990 - £56,490
You'll have to strap on quite a bit to keep up with them. But for a 21 grand + car the Polo GTI & + is a cheap motor, but there not the be all to end all motor.
I wonder if the Tesla has a Moooing complaint?
Sorry if this upsets you, but that's the way I see it. I like my SEL, you like your GTI's. In a big city, the pushbike reigns!
See I would strongly argue people shouldn't put up with it or not visit the dealer. Otherwise, VW may think it isn't a wide spread issue. Surely the more that highlight the issue the more traction it will gain. So I'd urge anyone with it that hasn't booked the car in, to do so. Certainly don't do back and forth - but get it logged and raised at least once.SRGTD wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:57 pmI don’t own a current model GTI/GTI+ (yet!), so cant relate to how loud this humming / mooing noise is or how it might affect the ownership experience, but I’d probably also just treat it as a minor inconvenience too, until I had another reason to visit the dealer.
I wonder how many owners would ‘just live with it’ and also treat it as a minor inconvenience if it started doing it for the first time outside the warranty period - assuming it doesn’t affect the car’s braking performance.