Grinding noise & steering judder under braking

[DaveL86]

I drove the car before Christmas and it developed a grinding/whining noise above 50mph, drove the car today (first time since before Christmas) and now the grinding/whining starts above 30mph and under any sort light/hard braking you get some serious steering judder.

I'm leaning towards wheel bearing but don't have a suitable jack to check any play in the wheel, what everyone else think?

[ymwoods]

I would say that your brakes pads have worn down and since they have been running metal to metal (or just through use)your brake discs have warped, hence the steering judder as the discs vibrate against the pads (and grinding noise of metal against metal).

This can also happen once the disc is warped badly with no braking what so ever and would become more noticable at higher speed.

There are a few ways to check, but easiest way is to get the wheel off and inspect them.

[DaveL86]

ymwoods said:

I would say that your brakes pads have worn down and since they have been running metal to metal (or just through use)your brake discs have warped, hence the steering judder as the discs vibrate against the pads (and grinding noise of metal against metal).

This can also happen once the disc is warped badly with no braking what so ever and would become more noticable at higher speed.

There are a few ways to check, but easiest way is to get the wheel off and inspect them.

That may be better news that I was expecting, I was told by my local VW specialist after my service that my pads had 15% left and pads were heavily scored so would need replacing soon.

The car won't be used much over the next week or so and will be booked in very soon, the perils of owning a car heh?

Lets hope it doesn't work out expensive, but it would come after the VAT increase wouldn't it

[VadMan]

Hi, I would agree with ymwoods above. My dad's car had a similar problem a while ago, but as soon as I replaced the front discs and pads, its disappeared altogether