It can't be...can it?

[Mrk_Mickey]

As far as I can tell, I've acquired a rather loud and annoying constant whirring sound coming from my rear left wheel. The pitch gets higher as my speed increases and I THINK that it goes away when I turn left with force. I ruled out the possibility of it being a bearing problem, simply because the rears were done only a small while ago; however now I'm not so sure.

Anyone care to shed any light? Would my bearing be a dud? (Bearing is OEM purchased from GAP)

[WABIT]

someones wheel bearing has crapped itself........

dom

[KI11Z]

perhaps you didnt tighten it enough or tightened it too much and it's flogged out

[Mrk_Mickey]

Would loosening it make it any better? AFAIK it was tightened properly lol...

[Jarred]

or maybe the bearing was installed incorrectly? wasn't packed well maybe...

def sounds like a wheel bearing issue to me.

[The_Hawk]

Sometimes these things just fail for no other reason than that it is tuesday. I'd be leaning towards bearing

[Mrk_Mickey]

Hmm maybe I can pin it on the guy that pressed the races for me. Ray and I went back a second time to ask him to seat the races properly cause we could both see gaps, and he came back with some rant about hitting metal when it's solid "it makes a THUNK sound, very strong, no more gap".

[mk3 gti]

i dno if cars are the sme but on a truck u have to pre load the berrings and alot of qualifide ppl dnd do it rite

[balkanac]

i dno if cars are the sme but on a truck u have to pre load the berrings and alot of qualifide ppl dnd do it rite

Can you please translate that to english?

[gldgti]

would be a bearing...happens all the time.

actually, changing the races can be done by yourself with a hammer and a nice drift that is a bit soft - brass is great.

[gtimk5]

i dno if cars are the sme but on a truck u have to pre load the berrings and alot of qualifide ppl dnd do it rite

Hmmm, didnt understand anything there. Not sure if there is such a thing on the streets as "sms" language...
Please interpret.


Also I wouldnt be too quick to blame the fella that put the outers in the disc. You would need solid proof that he has done anythingt wrong and its not hard to put them in. Not sure if he could have caused a failure there.
I had a rear bearing seize itself on a Golf once that was only 6 months old. Faulty case hardening I put it down to, I had to replace the stub axle as well.
Good luck with it,
Andrew

[Mrk_Mickey]

Considering the rear bearings aren't too much money I think I might just do it again at some point...

Ray and I were going to do it all ourselves but when we got to taking the races out it took us ages and we couldn't be bothered. we got a guy down the road from me to do it (mechanic) and as far as i know he just whacked the old ones out and very roughly whacked the new ones in. it didn't look like they sat straight and we could see gaps between the races and the edge of the race seats, so we took it back for him to 'finish' and he did more but it still wasn't perfect.

[Mrk_Mickey]

Just to add to my symptoms... at 20-25km/h I get this really low vibration noise, it shakes the car and sounds like a sub lol.

[gldgti]

Considering the rear bearings aren't too much money I think I might just do it again at some point...

Ray and I were going to do it all ourselves but when we got to taking the races out it took us ages and we couldn't be bothered. we got a guy down the road from me to do it (mechanic) and as far as i know he just whacked the old ones out and very roughly whacked the new ones in. it didn't look like they sat straight and we could see gaps between the races and the edge of the race seats, so we took it back for him to 'finish' and he did more but it still wasn't perfect.

take a trip up to gosford and i'll let you use my press

[Mrk_Mickey]

Winner!! I'll hold you to that ahah. Let me get bearings first (or a technician's diagnosis)

Thanks Aydan.