2016 2.0d 4x4, 97k miles. A vibration and whine over the last 12 months getting worse. It is synchronous with road speed and worst between 40 and 60 mph. No degradation felt when turning, no knocking noises either so not thinking wheel bearings or cv’s.

My feeling was rear prop shaft coupling so I changed it today (a pig of a job on the drive with ramps!). Unfortunately, even though the old rubber coupling showed signs of wear the vibration is still the same.

Anyone have pointers to where else it might be? ….and is changing the front coupler or centre support any easier than the rear one?

Edited 11 August, 202511 Aug by Johnricketts
typos

When one talks about that sort of problem, I go first & have a good look at the tyres.

Originally we had a Fabia Monte Carlo & that eat tyres. 4 in one year.

Yes the noise was tyres. Turned out the chassis & suspension had a fault that Skoda knew about.

In the end they loaned us a Yeti demonstrator 2L D, & from then on we were hooked.

But after having 2 Yeti's over 11 years, we have moved on now to a Toyota.