Ok so brought a car on 15th April and picked up on 22nd April. It is a 15 plate with 8395 miles,on the clock. Since owning the car I have had a drone on the car when at 40-50 and 70 - 80 mph. I be written to the dealer (recorded) stating I be replaced two front tyres on a week owned used car at a cost of 160 quid. The noise is now still there, has anyone else had issues with wheel bearings on there vrs and replaced under warranty?

Do you think I m right in asking for a refund of the tyres, as I know when I get to the dealership tomorrow this is what they will blame... I have until Sunday ( as a legal right) to ask for the whole,of my money £18230 back as the car isn't fit for purpose.

What do you think? Should I try to reject or get the dealer to put it right?

have you checked if your rear tyres aren't sawtoothed?  I had a bearing sounding drone and the dealer got me to check the rears for a smooth ridge on the front block and sharp on the rear.  Lo and behold they were sawtoothed as apparently the Octy and Golfs are prone to it.

 

Got mine fixed by getting new tyres (they were close to being replaced) and a 4 wheel Hunter re-alignment.   If the tyres aren't directional they had also suggested rotating the new ones so they swapped the direction of travel.

 

If yours is out maybe you could get them to pay for the re-alignment?

I ve paid £331 out and had all 4 tyres replaced in the las 3 weeks of owning the car. It's not tyres causing this noise

I ve paid £331 out and had all 4 tyres replaced in the las 3 weeks of owning the car. It's not tyres causing this noise

Oh dear.  Sorry your original post just mentioned changing the fronts and mine was caused by the rears.

 

Sounds like you have a problem then unless its the famous "boom in cabin" that some people get problems with.

Edited 20 May, 201610 yr by sworrall

my vrs has had its passenger side front wheel bearing replaced twice and driver side front has been replaced once, all got replaced around 6000 miles i too had a droning noise at those speeds. i think there have been a few with the same issue. i replaced all 4 tyres to rule that out plus i hated the pirellis it came with

I've had the driver's side replaced under warranty, to be fair it was after running-over a large rock on the highway. The drone is very specific, sharp groaning noise above 60km/h, completely different from the noise that tyres would produce. 

Ah good to hear others have had this issue. I have given notice to the dealer that I m rejecting the car under my legal right. Went to dealership on Saturday and was told the earliest they can book car to be looked st is 13th June. When booking was told courtesy car will be £12.50 which I am so not going to pay!

The good news is the letter I wrote to them giving my notice has landed directly with the dealer principle and being jumped upon now I m asking for £18900 back from them.

It is a little worrying that these wheel bearings are failing at low mileage. Obviously not great quality

probably a bad batch tbh one of my passenger side ones was faulty right out the box hence another replacement 

So I let the garage take the car back after my letter landed on the dealer principles desk. The car has so far had two wheel bearings replaced and now being put on the computer as I m sure he pressure sensor has gone too. Looks like some one may be reimbursing me for tyres after all!

On 26 May 2016 at 18:09, Poejay said:

So I let the garage take the car back after my letter landed on the dealer principles desk. The car has so far had two wheel bearings replaced and now being put on the computer as I m sure he pressure sensor has gone too. Looks like some one may be reimbursing me for tyres after all!

Did the noise disappear once the bearings were replaced or have you bought another car? 

I have the droning on my vRS and thought it was wheel bearings too. Dealer checked, bearings OK. Rotated the wheels and It disappeared before returning again - sawtoothing on khumo ectsa -  so I’m reasonably certain an alignment and new tyres will sort it, though you’d swear it was bearings.

 

Hope you get yours sorted one way or another, you certainly don’t want such grief after parting with your hard earned cash and looking forward to a new car.

On 26/05/2018 at 13:05, Greenliner1 said:

I have the droning on my vRS and thought it was wheel bearings too. Dealer checked, bearings OK. Rotated the wheels and It disappeared before returning again - sawtoothing on khumo ectsa -  so I’m reasonably certain an alignment and new tyres will sort it, though you’d swear it was bearings.

 

Hope you get yours sorted one way or another, you certainly don’t want such grief after parting with your hard earned cash and looking forward to a new car.

skoda fitted the same tyres on mine and they saw toothed badly, im not impressed at all. Changed to eagle F1s and a four wheel alignment and problem gone.

I've had similar issues with mine and paid out for new front tyres just to try and illiminate them from the noise...they didn't so I went straight into the dealer and got the front bearings changed. That was at around 50,000 miles and it solved the problem. At 65,000 I am starting to hear the noise return on the OSF, so may be returning for yet another bearing.

They are certainly a poor quality, but with the sawtoothing issue also very commion it can be difficult to identify.

Just had the car alignment checked at A-line Dudley for £54 on the Hunter rig there. Not too far out but enough to exacerbate the sawtoothing. 

 

Car runs straight and steering wheel is spot on level.

 

I’m looking at getting some new tyres soon as the droning though reduced has not yet gone and the tyre noise is far too loud.

 

I see the Goodyear F1 A3 are quite a good price and appear very quiet at 67dB, but I see varying reports of rim protection from none at all to very good.

Digging around I see mention of “mit Felgenschutz” (MFS) and wonder if this is optional, even the guy at quick fit was unsure.

 

Any comments on the above would be appreciated as I’d like to keep the paint on the Gemini’s as long as possible, they’ve already been repainted before I had the car.

2 hours ago, Greenliner1 said:

Just had the car alignment checked at A-line Dudley for £54 on the Hunter rig there. Not too far out but enough to exacerbate the sawtoothing. 

 

Car runs straight and steering wheel is spot on level.

 

I’m looking at getting some new tyres soon as the droning though reduced has not yet gone and the tyre noise is far too loud.

 

I see the Goodyear F1 A3 are quite a good price and appear very quiet at 67dB, but I see varying reports of rim protection from none at all to very good.

Digging around I see mention of “mit Felgenschutz” (MFS) and wonder if this is optional, even the guy at quick fit was unsure.

 

Any comments on the above would be appreciated as I’d like to keep the paint on the Gemini’s as long as possible, they’ve already been repainted before I had the car.

 

F1 A3 are good, i've had mine a couple of weeks and covered about 1k in that time. They are quieter than the Conti SC5 I had and have better rim protection, but don't expect wonders on either point. The tyre noise is still noticeable and the rim protection is only just about level with the most outer-bit of the Gemini wheel.

 

Edited 2 June, 20188 yr by ahenners

Thanks Ahenners

 

looks like that’s what it’ll be then 4 off F1 A3’s. 

 

Not having rim rim protection on alloys is a pet hate, it’s one of the things I look at when getting a car but the other things on the vRS outweighed it. Paranoid now when parallel parking.

 

I’d hate to think what SWMBO Matterhorn’s would look like if they didn’t have a nice tyre wall to protect them (sidewall on the factory P-Zeros was smoothed off).