Blue GT Road Noise

[Fedupvw]

Hi guys, wondering if you can help...

Had the car two weeks now and it is fantastic, however there is one niggle.

The day I got it I had the wheels off to detail and seal them front and back, put them back on no problem, properly torqued etc. thing is there seems to be a fair bit of noise from the back, sounds like road noise but seems quite loud.

As I didn't drive it before I took the wheels off I am not sure if it is something not quite right with the wheels or just that coming from a 60 ps 15" wheel polo the tyres/wheels make a lot more road noise.

Any thoughts?

[Ricmondo]

Sounds odd, one of the first things I noticed about my BGT was the absence of road noise compared to every other car I've owned since the early seventies and that's a lot of cars!

[HPJ]

I have to say that I get a lot of road noise from my Dunlop Sport Maxx.

Ricmondo, what tyres does your Polo have to make it so quiet?

Achjay

[Ricmondo]

They're Dunlops. Perhaps knocking on 70 I'm not as sensitive as you younger chaps. The Polo is much quieter than the 500 Arbath it replaced, and on another planet compared to friends 911s. I'll try switching off the Media player but I find Bellowhead and The Who admirable driving companions.

[Mart!n-GTI-DK]

Polo's in general has never been the best noize insulated cars in the VW range. But the 6R/C is in the good end of the roadnoize scale.

[Fedupvw]

Well took the wheels off today just to see if it is my imagination or if there is something causing excessive road noise.

Tha wheel hubs, where I hang/ put the alloys back on to, has surface rust on it so I am guessing that could be the noise.

I am thinking to rub down with super fine wire wool and then put a tiny amount of lithium grease on hubs only?

Never done this before so advice gratefully received. I think copper grease is a no go as it reacts with alloy wheels?

Even worse, today. I trashed my drivers side alloy, got it caught on a curb an trashed about a 1/3 of the rim getting it off.
In 25 years I have NEVER marked any alloy, first brand new car and 2 weeks later wheel trashed. VW price for new one £515

Hoping it can be refurb'd but being OCD about car worrying that coz I will know, I wont be able to live with it.

[HPJ]

Despite the tyre noise this is probably the quietest Polo I have owned.

My first Polo was a Mk1 which I had when I lived in Germany in the late seventies, I use to drive it flat out everywhere, 6000rpm = 160 KPH which was my cruising speed on the
autobahn. My second car in Germany, a 205 GTI, although much quicker, never felt as fast from a to b as the Polo.

My second Polo was a G40 which I had in the early nineties, a great car and very economical on the open road, I seem to remember that it could average about 45mpg on my 35 mile
commute, each way, to work. In the mornings it would take just over 30 minutes and in the evenings about an hour.

And now I have a BlueGT with the 150ps engine, a lot of tyre noise, but other than that a pretty damn good car. I have to say that its brakes are a vast improvement over the first two Polo's.
They were dreadful in the wet, you had to break gently to get the water off first before you could apply proper pressure to the break pedal to get a good breaking force. My commute takes a
little longer now days but it is still a 60+ mile round trip and I am averaging about 50mpg which I think is pretty bloody good for a car as quick as the Polo.

Achjay

[HPJ]

Well took the wheels off today just to see if it is my imagination or if there is something causing excessive road noise.

Tha wheel hubs, where I hang/ put the alloys back on to, has surface rust on it so I am guessing that could be the noise.

I am thinking to rub down with super fine wire wool and then put a tiny amount of lithium grease on hubs only?

Never done this before so advice gratefully received. I think copper grease is a no go as it reacts with alloy wheels?

Even worse, today. I trashed my drivers side alloy, got it caught on a curb an trashed about a 1/3 of the rim getting it off.
In 25 years I have NEVER marked any alloy, first brand new car and 2 weeks later wheel trashed. VW price for new one £515

Hoping it can be refurb'd but being OCD about car worrying that coz I will know, I wont be able to live with it.

Did you take the insurance VW are offering which covers wheels and tyres? After a bit of haggling they threw it in as part of the deal on my car.

Achjay

[Fedupvw]

Achjay,

Didn't even think about that, thanks!
Will look into.

[CrypticG]

My SEL (6c) with Dunlop Sport Maxx - is quiet as anything. Especially over the fiesta MK8 I owned previously. Silly question, but have you got the correct amount of pressure in them? I notice the handbook says to pump the dunlops up pretty high. I think, 36psi in the front and 34 in the rear.


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[TheFrog]

My Blue GT is one of the quietest cars I've owned. No problem with tyre noise. A bit strange that you've got rust on a brand new car, makes you wonder if it's not been standing somewhere it shouldn't, and what rust there might be elsewhere, where you can't see it.

[Umiamz]

My new Polo SEL is one of the quietest cars I've had - you can barely hear the engine. However, I do notice tyre noise on anything other than smooth tarmac.