Hey guys

 

So I picked up my first vrs today - loving it so far all apart from a strange oscillating hum when traveling on the motorway. It *appears* to be coming from the engine. It's been serviced and MOTd by the garage so all should be OK but I refuse to believe this is a normal sound. It gets higher in pitch and frequency up to about 55, then starts low again about 60 and peaks around 74/75. There is no bad feeling to the car but it's a very irritating noise and I cannot believe is part of the normal sound of the car.

 

Any ideas or help appreciated.

 

Thanks

Drew

What car did you drive previously?

 

The Octavia has quite loud road noise, especially the VRS on the big tyres.

 

However you may have a tyre/s worn in a sawtooth pattern, basically the tread blocks wear unevenly, in a stepped pattern and the cause this lovely noise...

 

Back to the dealer get them to inspect the tyres, change rotate until the noise goes.

 

You may find a smartphone decibel app will be a good way of measuring the difference, at a fixed speed.

Hi glosrich

 

I was driving a golf 2tdi

 

I'm thinking now it may not be engine - tyre or wheel seems more likely - Now I'm back in glasgow where the motorways have some tighter corners.

 

The sound peaks and troughs in a sinusoidal way so I don't think it's a tread thing. 

 

I'll look at taking it back in this weekend to have a look at it.

 

Thanks

Drew

Hi Drew.

 

There are quite a few posts related to wheel bearing noise on the forum which may be your problem too. My car has suffered with this recently, which I thought was the tyres, but has been confirmed by the dealer as wheelbearing drone. I am due replacement in a few weeks. If the swapping of tyres doesn't help, this may be the next port of call. I think the 'sawtoothing' tends to affect the rear tyres most.

Rub your hands over the tyres, mainly the rear ones to see if there wearing evenly.  If you can feel excessive wear mainly on the inside edge then the noise will most likley be the tyres.

It's definitely a front of the car sound - as it is an approved used I do have a 1 year warranty so I'm taking it to a local Skoda dealer (bought in Stockport and live in glasgow) as recommended by my dealer, to have it checked out. Will update here incase anyone else is suffering the same issue but I do believe it may be a bearing issue.

 

Thanks for the help guys!

So much for being an 'Approved' used car then, if they have sent it out with a dodgy wheel bearing!

 

What choices to have locally,

 Henrys, Arnold Clark, Park's, (West End) its like what do you want, shot, stabbed, hang, drowned or all of those and wait weeks to have it doing as busy doing 'the fix'.

"Competition drives up standards of Customer Service". well maybe other than in or around Glasgow.

Edited 11 September, 20178 yr by Headinawayoffski

I have exactly that same sinusoidal drone on my VRS since hitting a pot hole at high speed. Had the tracking checked (and re-aligned) - drone persisted. Had an indi specialist check for wheel bearing damage - none found. Drone still persists. Was your drone resolved??

Sounds like a tire or bearing problem.

 

But how the specialists checked wheel bearing? On my previous car bearing appeared as a problem only when it was loaded with car weight. On the crane if was undetectable. I put a specialist in the car and driving around, as he was also ensuring me all is fine. It is not fine, come on, I can't listen to the music anymore on some speeds - from a perfectly calm and silent car. After replacement the sound was gone for good.

 

Hitting a pothole makes sense. Exactly the same cause on my car, but didn't emerged immediately.

Hi Mattstervrs

 

Was the wheel bearing. Had it replaced, problem solved.

 

Drew