Hello,

Friend of mine asked me to have a look at his Golf, its developed a noise that increases with road speed. It gets progressively louder until about 40/50mph then gets quieter.

It sounds like its coming from the rear of the car. I thought at first it would be the wheel bearing, but I'd expect that to get noisier and more annoying the faster you go.

I can feel some play in one of the rear wheels, but would hate to replace the bearing for nothing.

Any ideas?


Cheers

David

'Sounds just like a Golf."
Don't suppose you get that really irritating advert over there.

If theres play in the wheel I would change the bearing if the noise is from the rear there is a good bet that this will be the problem

^^^ ditto, if there's play replace it regardless of the noise, you'll probably find that replacing it does sort the noise out though.

Thanks for the help, I'll give it a go - looks like a fairly simple replacement form what I can see. Nothing the big hammer shouldn't fix anyway.

Cheers

If it's anything like earlier Golf/other VWs then it'll have a taper-roller bearing with a castle nut & split pin for adjustment, you'll be able to take it all apart, clean & inspect without destroying anything so you're sure it's the bearing that's gone & not waste any money.
Easy enough to do aswell, if you've done a front bearing a Cortina hub (as may well be fitted to a Locost!) then it's similar.

It is quite a simple job if all the bolts come undone. I had to replace some after the air chisel got involved