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I hope someone can please help me with this. September 2016 Polo Match 1.2 TSI 3 door, I am getting a lot of noise from the front of the car, having a very distinctive rumbling characteristic which I can only describe as sounding like a rubber ball being shaken in a plastic drinks bottle. It is not speed dependant and starts as soon as the car is in motion and feels like it is to do with engine moving/vibrating on its mountings. My previous 2015 1.2 TSI DSG did not have this problem (this had other issues which is why I had to change it).
Tyres are 185/60 R15 Hankook Kinergy K425.

Check your wheel bearings, your symptoms are classic.

Thanks Ricmondo. Could this be possible on a new car that's done only 1000 miles? Bad batch of bearings?

Shouldn't be but I've had new cars that had no grease in their bearings, another where the nut had been over tightened and so on.

In my youth I used to blag any opportunity to drive different cars and built up a lot of useful contacts. One dealer associate used to pick up velicles from Italy and "carefullly" drive them back to London in order that his rich but generally useless customers would be spared the initial running in period. On a memorable occasion two of his orders reached completion at the same time whilst the only mechanic he trusted was in hospital. I was fortunate to be asked to accompany him whilst being paid a fee and expenses to drive one of the cars back. He started in the 12 cylinder whilst I drove the 6. We swapped several times which was great fun. When we reached the ferry it was clear that the wheel bearings on the big car had become very hot and noisy, the big V12 and quad exhausts had masked the noise before. Out of caution we arranged for a transporter to take the stricken car to the garage. Examination revealed that nylon spacers had been left in the bearing cage, they had melted and turned the grease into grinding paste. Sorry about the nostalgia but it's one of the bits of the 1960s that I can remember well contrary to the popular saying. It just goes to show that mistakes do happen especially in cars built by humans rather than robots.

Best of luck, let us all know what it turns out to be, I've encountered a new BMW with an empty beer can inside the tyre, made exactly the noise you describe too!

Nostalgia, had a friend who back when Fiat 127 was on the go, bought a new one with a screwdriver bit inside a front tyre! He got it sorted before the long thin bit escaped out through the tyre!

Prior doing my own personal import of a car from Holland, I checked up a few localish places that could procure new cars from mainland Europe, and for a chunk of cash could get the new car driven across to save you money - called Kamakazi deliveries? (fast as flying bullet for next car delivery). I chose to travel to the car and drive home myself ending up with 1000 miles on the clock, using proper transit plates - which as it happens were out of date the day I transited that car back to UK! Curiously to me anyway, you can drive a new car on UK roads without any plates as long as it is being delivered, ie one journey, sounds a crazy fact, I can't see how that would satisfy the police as you could speed without being traced! Also discovered later that Admiral, who at that time were said to be safe to use for driving a new car from mainland Europe prior to reg'ng it, were not supplying you with proper insurance from when you picked the car up, the insurance only kicked in when you landed in UK. In Europe, there is no individual insurer that can insure you on a new car being collected in another country - each country protects its own insurance company, which is why, maybe still, if you bought a new car in Eire - there was only one insurance company that you could use to provide you, at great cost, full comp insurance for the trip to the ferry and no further. End of my nostalgia, though I would not mind if we could still do our own car importing of new cars and save money, well until Brexit!

We used the little known magnetically attached Euro trade plate which came with insurance cover. Great but you had to hide them when you parked and if you could not resist going all out you had to take them off and wedge them against the screen or they would be blown off, not a lot of fun if you were flat out on the Autobahn (we of course were good boys so never went fast......oh yeah).

I had a rare Abarth modified Fist 127 Sport for a while, used to pull 9000 rpm in top and made a fantastic noise it felt ballistic at the time but it wouldn't live with current boy racer cars.

Just think today's GTis and WRCs are tomorrow's nostalgia, your grandchildren will think they are quaint but nothing like their hydrogen fuelled autonomous hybrids.

Yes, even today, if you had the money to throw away, a Tesla can shift a bit!

I thought that WRC were coming back to being just a bit scary (again) this year?