[T3] knocking sound at a hard stop-front of car

Mike Fisher fisherfarms at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 09:48:57 PDT 2011


Can't you pull the noisy wheel off yourself and examine everything
very closely for rubbing?  It's might just be 1 wheel/caliper.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:35 AM, sploogemeister
<sploogemeister at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> The wheels may be hitting the caliper, BTDT.
>
> --- On Thu, 9/1/11, John L. Morgan IV <emailjohnmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: John L. Morgan IV <emailjohnmorgan at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [T3] knocking sound at a hard stop-front of car
>> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>> Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 4:30 PM
>> im going back to the mechanic who put
>> on the wheels.
>> think he can fix this?
>> i will tell him that i think the calipers are loose or
>> rubbing.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On 1 Sep 2011 at 10:26, John L. Morgan IV wrote:
>> >
>> > > This is a daily driver.  Car hasnt been
>> sitting.
>> >
>> > Okay, so it's not a rust patch, but IS it repetitive,
>> as in clunk-
>> > clunk-clunk? And it's a clunk, not a scraping sound,
>> right?
>> >
>> > > No problem in the back with drums...the problem
>> comes from the front
>> > > where the discs are.
>> >
>> > Right, I understand.
>> >
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