I have this grinding noise comming from the front of my car. here are the symptoms:-

- you can hear it very loud at 40-50kph but as you go fasterb then the noise gets slightly drowned out by the tire and wind noise but the nose remains.
- the grinding can be felt through the car and steering wheel.
- when you switch off the engine as you are doing 50kph the noise is still there.
- there is no grinding noise when stationary witht he engine in idle.
- there is no increase in noise when you take left or right hand "hard turns"
- all wheel bearings were changed 50k kms ago and checked recently by the garage mentioned below (although one drivers rear bearing is showing signs of play).
- the ECS ultimate timing belt kit was installed at 100K kms and I am now at 140K Kms
- the noise has been there for 8months now and has got progressively more noisy.

this is bugging me soooo bad. I took it to a well know garage near me and they could not figure it out!

now it's got to the point that I cringe everytime I jump in my car. I tested out a work collegue's new Civic today and it was so quiet compared to my grindy Audi that I almost considered getting rid of my car there an then.

I was hoping somebody could shed some light on what this could be as i do not have the time/cash to let a another garage do a few days diagnostic!

please help me not get a civic

Thanks all.

 

what about if you are in neutral and coasting? does the sound continue? If it's only when you are in gear.. i'd start looking into clutch or tranny... however you said you can feel it through the steering wheel... strange. What about axles and cv boots? have they been changed? Really wish you the best of luck... hopefully nothing major

 

im guessing WB

 

Take off the wheels up front and compare the rotors and all thos goodies to eachother.

 

Darren, I'm about an hour south (depending) shoot me an email if you need a hand.

 

it started making the noise prior to swapping my summer mags to winter setup so it's not the wheels or tires.

 

rotors and other stuff when I switch to summer mode this weekend. If I have no luck then I'll shoot you an email.