bought the car recently and having driven it round for a week I got it on the motorway, and this terrible wobbling noise started, I instantly diagnosed it as a wheel bearing.

Swerving and the likes to try find out which side was going gave me no clues

I changed the brakes and found the front NS wheel was red hot and hard to turn, i promptly got a new hub and swapped it over only to find that the noise remained

Today I went to replace the rear tyres as they were on the indicators, told the tyre guy about the wub wub wub noise and he bet me £50 the tyres would fix it, I laughed and he showed me the tyres (avon 205 45 16)

They had the worst "stepping" he had seen for ages, you could see the unevenness let alone feel it

I promptly drove off in complete silence, and my new tyres grip like **** to a blanket.......what day !!

Loads of threads on this issue.

Rear tyres 'sawtooth' and create a droning noise similar to a wheel bearing on the way out. It might be worth having the alignment checked on all four wheels.

oh I see

Will do

Edited 12 May, 201214 yr by Binzie

Hmm, today I ordered a wheel bearing

To be fair, on the MPI the rear hubs do have a tendency to die so i'd not worry about that Avalon

(I replaced 2 in the 20k miles I owned the MPI for!)

Glad you sorted it.

My car makes an aweful noise too, constant droning noise which gets louder with speed. Unbearable at 80mph, I hate driving the car now.

I thought it was down to stepping on the tyres too, (i've had the problem for over a year, but it's just got unbearable this past month or more).

Had 4 brand new Goodyears fitted this week, and the noise is still there, just as loud, so for me I think it is a wheel bearing

dead cheap part

bloody hard graft without air tools

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-POLO-IBIZA-FABIA-A2-FRONT-WHEEL-BEARING-HUB-2000-/270967196184?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3f16e74a18#ht_500wt_922

Remember that although the bearings are universal two versions exist, ABS and non ABS, i'm not sure if you can fit an ABS version to a non ABS car (i'd assume so) but you don't want to fit a non ABS bearing kit to an ABS car.

I'm not worried TBH, i've got two new Michelin's on the rear and they're wearing evenly, i've had 2L of G20 & a new drive shaft seal sat on the shelf for weeks now so this is the motivation I needed to get on and do the job. Sadly the seal and the bearing are on opposite sides of the box so I may as well do both seals and i'm considering a seccond bearing as the other wheel bearing is bound to go next month in sympathy!