Thread: new noise/vibration MY12 D4

Originally Posted by BobD

I am not talking about the normal tyre whine or the normal tyre vibration. As the tyres wear you get a different noise and vibration exactly as you have described. Pitty you haven't got the original tyres. It is very easy to check whether it is tyres or something else when you can easily swap to the OEM tyres.

There have been several recent posts on this topic and some older ones also where people are getting similar issues to what you have described, some with GG tyres. With my old Continental Cross Contact tyres, which were very quiet for a long time, I had the same thing after about a year (30,000km) and I was really scared my wheel bearings had seized or something similar. Put the OEM tyres on and no vibration at all. My D697's after about 30,000km are now just starting to exhibit the same sort of behaviour, although not as bad as the Contis. The silly thing is that there is also nothing visible on the tyres that would indicate that such a vibration could occur.

As I said, don't discount the tyres so readily.

Bob

Agreed. I thought it was a wheel bearing and replaced it and it made no difference. Put the old wheel bearing back and again it made no difference. Sniegy pointed out to me the feathering on the LHF tyre - run you hand over the tyre against the direction of rotation and you can feel the ridges. There's nothing particularly wrong, just irritating.

I would not believe it was tyres until I started to experiment, but I do think that's what it is.

Willem

Hi Diana,

We met at the LROC xmas party, I have the Stornoway Grey D4, I asked whether you had this noise back then which you didn't (hope I didn't curse you by asking). I've tried the tyre rotation and balance twice since the noise first appeared but no change.
Regardless of which tyre is where mine always seems to come from the drivers front wheel, I've checked for wheel bearing play but it seems fine there is no logical connection from the symptoms to the tyres but I'm starting to believe everyone else because there is nothing left.
My last test before I totally convert is try changing the tyres, I have a friend with a new D4 so I'll swap the 2 fronts with his and see if it goes away.

If it is the tyres my next concern will be how much damage will this cause other parts of the car like suspension and steering if we can't get rid of it?