Coming home tonight and just as I turned onto the street I heard a noise as if my exhaust was dropping off and scraping the ground! It was really quite loud!
So I pulled on the drive and checked it, and it all seemed fine. I drove up and down the drive a couple of times and it was still very loud but appeared to be coming from the drivers side rear wheel! (It's difficult to tell exactly as I was of course in the car and no-one else around to help).
Now, I'm by no means a mechanic but I thought I'd have a look and see if I could see anything obvious. Looked underneath the car and it all looked fine apart from a random pipe dangling down which I assume to is connected to the overfill on the petrol cap.
I've posted a pic above just to be sure, but I don't think the pipe is the problem...
I drove it up and down a couple more times to try and get a better idea and then it stops making the noise completely!! And now I can't get it to happen again. I've looked on the drive for any signs of things having dropped off but can't see anything. I don't know if it's me being paranoid but I'm not sure my brakes are as good as they used to be - they still stop but seem a little "spongy". Pads all have plenty of wear left on them and the fluid is fine.
So - does anyone have the faintest idea what might have been causing this?? I thought it might be a stone stuck in the wheel workings somewhere but I couldn't see anything.
Car is a Leon FR Tdi MK2.
So I pulled on the drive and checked it, and it all seemed fine. I drove up and down the drive a couple of times and it was still very loud but appeared to be coming from the drivers side rear wheel! (It's difficult to tell exactly as I was of course in the car and no-one else around to help).
Now, I'm by no means a mechanic but I thought I'd have a look and see if I could see anything obvious. Looked underneath the car and it all looked fine apart from a random pipe dangling down which I assume to is connected to the overfill on the petrol cap.
I've posted a pic above just to be sure, but I don't think the pipe is the problem...
I drove it up and down a couple more times to try and get a better idea and then it stops making the noise completely!! And now I can't get it to happen again. I've looked on the drive for any signs of things having dropped off but can't see anything. I don't know if it's me being paranoid but I'm not sure my brakes are as good as they used to be - they still stop but seem a little "spongy". Pads all have plenty of wear left on them and the fluid is fine.
So - does anyone have the faintest idea what might have been causing this?? I thought it might be a stone stuck in the wheel workings somewhere but I couldn't see anything.
Car is a Leon FR Tdi MK2.
