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I've changed the front discs and pads on saturday, also painted the calipers.

Anyway, was fine on sunday, no problems what so ever, brakes bedding in nice.

BUT today, it started making droneing noises coming from the front right wheel, i pulled over to check and it all looks fine, everything looks secure.

Has the bearing gone or am I missing something silly, it doesnt sound safe !

P.S I did hit the impact driver quite hard to remove the disc screw?

my last car did that (none VW) when i put drilled and grooved discs on it with green stuff pads. Was fine for the first day i had it then i got this noise that you described.

Never did fix it, got rid of the car soon after lol!

I never felt right anyway.....

Take the caliper off the disk and whip out the pads and clean up the caliper where the pads will sit - make sure they are nice and smooth. I had a similar issue with my old Mk3 Golf GTi 16v finally figured it out after a motorway run (the disks were glowing like the sun) Basically the pads were not releasing properly and were 'shuddering' against the disk.

Jamo

I cleaned everything when I done it all, nice and new.

Err it was a loose wheel btw !!!!

Forgot to tighten when on the ground, thats what 7 hours of working on the garage floor does to you

classic, i did that last month, i felt like a right numpty telling my girlfriend that it wasnt the bearings/axel/breaks etc, it was actually loose wheel nuts

Gutted - easy mistake when your minds elsewhere...