MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: JPC on November 05, 2009, 12:16:17 pm
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Hi guys, I went to see jayz last night with tom and on the way back I had a blow out on the front. Nothing too dramatic, a bit scary though. Anyway I managed to limp 4 miles down the hard shoulder and pull off at the services on the m6. The tyre was completely knackered, a gash all the way around the circumference on the inside seperating the sidewall from the tread. The tyre heals together though and my alloy wheel and arch etc are fine
As the front wheel blew I took a rear wheel off the rear and put the spare on the rear. Earlier this morning that was fine and I carried on with my journey home and got there at 5.45am after setting off at 10.45pm!
At 8am I had to drop Steph off at work and noticed the car felt awful! When I put full lock on each way, I get a horrible juddering. Also going round corners is cringe worthy, it feels like the wheel is catching something or the ESP is cutting in. It also catches/ judders with ESP off. I'm of to get the tracking looked at now but I wondered if anyone has had this before?
Feels like I'm drivng a cut and shut!! Lol
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is this not just a cause by having mismatched tyres?
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There not missmatched
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There not missmatched
you just said you had a space saver on the back? :confused:
Take it to a garage and they will tell you straight away!
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You did a decent job on that hooker in the boot, didn't you? Get out to the moors pronto.
Sheesh, I told you to use a claw hammer...
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Maybe some tyre is lodged somewhere? do you have access to a ramp to see if you can spin the wheel freely without any noise when its in the air?
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There not missmatched
you just said you had a space saver on the back? :confused:
Take it to a garage and they will tell you straight away!
its the front that is making funny noises, and there's two alloys on the fronts. The space saver is on the back and is running fine.
Ive just been to my tyre place and my new tyres will be in at 2ish. I ordered them at 8. So they are doing it in one hit.
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You did a decent job on that hooker in the boot, didn't you? Get out to the moors pronto.
Sheesh, I told you to use a claw hammer...
haha good one mike. Just so everyone knows I'm not in the business of running hookers over on the m6 at 4 in the morning! Steph wouldn't have been best pleased!
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Maybe some tyre is lodged somewhere? do you have access to a ramp to see if you can spin the wheel freely without any noise when its in the air?
I'm going to my tyre place at 2 so I'll have a better idea then! Typically, when I got to the tyre place about 10 mns ago it stopped catching and hasn't done all the way home! WTF? Bit worrying!
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Very odd, nothing stuck in the tread. Gutting and expensive. Bet Jayz was good.
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Jay-z was awesome! I was right at the front and he spoke to me lol. They also filmed the video for his next single, forever young!
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Jay-z was awesome! I was right at the front and he spoke to me lol. They also filmed the video for his next single, forever young!
Cracking :congrats:
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Jay-z was awesome! I was right at the front and he spoke to me lol. They also filmed the video for his next single, forever young!
Was he excited at having Peter Kay in the front row? :signLOL:
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Jay-z was awesome! I was right at the front and he spoke to me lol. They also filmed the video for his next single, forever young!
Was he excited at having Peter Kay in the front row? :signLOL:
:grin: :grin: :grin:
That forever young tracxk is a belter! infact most of the album is. :happy2:
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what was it then??
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Just had the tyres fitted. Right, had the wheels off, I've had a good look round with my head in the arch with a torch and I can't see anything untoward. Very strange.
Now, I've had them do the tracking, I was watching and it was already perfect. I thought it already was bang on, but looking on the inside of the old Goodyear tyre and it looks like The inner shoulder is worn down. Not dangerously, and I've seen worse. Just wondered why it's wearing like that if the tracking is ok?
Oh and another thing, I can't tell you how much I've missed my favoured contisport contact 3s!! Never been very impressed with Goodyear eagle f1s!
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Im going to check my eagles for exessive wear now ! damn.. thats strange .. does the noise still occur now the new tyres are on?
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is the ESP light flashing? maybe diff between 19's and space saver (although it should be ok...)
could any pieces of tyre damaged the abs sensor?
is the rear tyre from the same side ?
wheel weights catching? (as theyve been on the back previously?)
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Im going to check my eagles for exessive wear now ! damn.. thats strange .. does the noise still occur now the new tyres are on?
It's all cured now, it was a strange one. It wasn't just a noise either, it was a braking sensation as well.
At john, it's stopped now and I think it might have somethng to do with the difference in the pitch of the vehicle due to the space saver. So glad to have that fkcuer in the boot again!!