wats this noise?

[mynameisearl]

i've had this sound in my vs for over a week now and its sending me crazy!!!! it sounds like i have a small rock stuck in my front passenger tyre. But ive searched the tyre a million times but cant find anything, ive jacked it up and sat there checking the wheels but still nothing! i thought it might be a pulley but i changed my idler pulleys today and also my idler tension pulley. And its still there haunting, me could it be my aircon pulley? if i dont find it soon i'll end up in a padded room

[The1]

whats the actual noise like, high pitched squeel or something else.

[mynameisearl]

its just like when you've got a rock stuck in your tyre tread kind of a tack...tack...tack but theres no rock or anything else in my tread which makes me think it something else. Its getting louder but only happens between
40 - 60 kmph. So pretty much when i driving around town

[Commydoor]

do you have hubcaps?

[The1]

if it was your pulleys you would hear it when you pull the throttle cable whilst in the engine bay.

Can you tell if it's coming from one side or the other? try jacking up that side and spin the wheel by hand and see if you can hear anything, also check if there is much movement in the wheel it could be a wheel bearing you can tell when your wheel bearings are going if you can rock the wheel around without moving anything else it's suppost to be nice and tight if you get what i mean.

[mynameisearl]

if it was your pulleys you would hear it when you pull the throttle cable whilst in the engine bay.

Can you tell if it's coming from one side or the other? try jacking up that side and spin the wheel by hand and see if you can hear anything, also check if there is much movement in the wheel it could be a wheel bearing you can tell when your wheel bearings are going if you can rock the wheel around without moving anything else it's suppost to be nice and tight if you get what i mean.

its coming from the front passenger side, i jacked it up and spun the wheel for noise there was none and also looked for something stuck in the tyre there was none. Also checked for movement in the tyre but there was none at all, doesnt do it when you rev the car only does it while moving, and no i dont have hub caps.

[The1]

only other thing i can think of is dry joints in the doors, i had this once.

[mynameisearl]

only other thing i can think of is dry joints in the doors, i had this once.

the thing is its in rthym? and gets faster as i drive faster i dunno how the doors would do that, its definetly coming from the outside of the car its loud enough for people walking past to hear and its shiiting me up the wall lol

[The1]

might be extreme but get tyres rotated or do it yourself, swap fronts to back and back to fronts and see if the noise moves with it.

[Commydoor]

sounds like you might have a seperation or a soft spot in a tyre and the steel belting is moving about....put your spare to the left front and test it....process of elimination do it to all wheels one at a time....another trick is to pump the tyre to 70psi and road test....this inflates the tyre to a full hard pressure if there is a soft spot in the tyre the noise will go out and come back when you drop the pressure back down....

[aceventura]

I had a ticking sound recently that I couldn't find coming from the drivers side. Could only hear it above 60 km/h, and it was independent of the revs. It stopped after something fell off while I was driving - hit the well under my feet pretty hard.

I got under the car and search everywhere and couldn't find any missing nuts/bolts etc. It does however look like one of the balancing weights on the the inner side of the front drivers side wheel is missing. The balancing still seems ok, but maybe that was my problem?

Have you tried swapping the tyre over as suggested above?

[VS_Pete_1]

Very strange indeed. Have you had any work done on the car?
Have a look at your tailshaft and see if anything is caught around it so when it is spinning it hits the floor. Mate found plastic coated wire around his which was hitting the floor and making a ticking type of sound which seemed to be coming from the front. Just a thought.

[mynameisearl]

ok ive tracked down the noise! i took the wheel off today and theres 2 lines on the rotor from where the brakes had been sitting because until i boought it it had been sitting unused in a shed for 10 months. So now my question is how to i get rid of this problem? when these 2 lines go under the brake pad they make the noise, do i just get it machined? or scrub it up with something? heres a picx of the marks

[Commydoor]

disc machining as long as theres enuf meat there....theres a minimum thickness they can cut it down too

[210lpa]

Holy Moly Batman ,seriously get that fixed asap seeing the veins of your rotor like that could end in a bad situation(brake piston through the disc) lock up of wheel skidding in one direction (no control) .Mate get new rotors (discs) that looks pretty thin.i had an xb gs years ago that i neglected and luckily i was only going 40 50 kays when if shat it self and locked up,defenately get it fixed asap.

[The1]

depends how much pad you have left, if it's not much then whack new pads and discs on, if not maybe still put new discs on as when i priced machining vrs new discs it was just as cheap to get new discs, check with gslrallysport on the forums here they sell dba discs for good price.

[mynameisearl]

ok i tried to video the sound so you know what im talking about its a pretty crap video sorry heres the link YouTube - vs rotors

[The1]

nearly sounds like you got warped discs there or your pads are down to the metal.

[mynameisearl]

nearly sounds like you got warped discs there or your pads are down to the metal.

pads are still at about 70%

[mynameisearl]

ok just replaced the rotors and the noise is even louder now, there is no movement in the hub but could it be a bearing if theres no movement? if you heard it you would honestly think there was a screw in the tyre thats what it sounds like! but ive checked the tyre a million times and theres nothing in it

[Ballzy7]

ive got the same sorta problem coming from my vr the rear drivers side brakes sound like they are rubbing on the rotor while im driving and the stop once i apply the brakes its a constant sqeaking while im driving is very tempermental eg some times louder then others and sometimes not there at all.. ive had the rotors machined and new pads whilst gettin a general service but i hasnt stop the sound.. was thinkin if it could be a faulty spring in the caliper what do you think?

[The1]

ok just replaced the rotors and the noise is even louder now, there is no movement in the hub but could it be a bearing if theres no movement? if you heard it you would honestly think there was a screw in the tyre thats what it sounds like! but ive checked the tyre a million times and theres nothing in it

Damn what a pain, sounds like your down to replacing the hubs then, hope you dont have abs as there quite expensive.

[mynameisearl]

yeah i got abs just rung the wreckers and i can get a hub there for $66

[ScoHar]

I had an exact same noise in my VR, replaced, shocks, springs, top hats, rotors, pads, calipers, both hubs never found out what it was so no help sorry, ended up selling it.

[mynameisearl]

ok just found out when i wash my wheels the noise stops until it dries out then starts again! Would bearings do this or should i be looking somewhere else? im freakin confused now!