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How are the tires? If the wheel can shimmy as you describe that surely is going to cause abnormal wear issues, some wear issues, cupping for instance, can cause the noise you describe.

The Squat Hatchling with bew gets around 38mpg when it's really cold out and winter blend is present, normally 42 otherwise.

3.56 lowest round these heah parts. (sw Indiana)

I put the snow-door-tube-gizmo back in the fender as I'd removed it months ago for whatever reason, seems to be actually a bit quieter running inside now. I was thinking man, this thing can't possibly breathe, what with all these turns and narrowings and gyrations and 8 feet of plastic pipe the...

$3.79 round these parts lately.

Today saw The Squat Hatchling receive a new febi tensioner from autohausaz and a Bando belt from ebay, preventative maintenance don't you know. I like oem style parts in most cases, and Bando makes nice inexpensive belts. The originals will be kept as spares as they were still serviceable. I...

A friend has an Audi on 19s and I always thought it would ride far worse than my coilovered Jetta on 17s, but no. Apparently at least someone's making those silly rubber band tires nowadays that have a nice ride. On the springs my bet is he cut them or heated them/collapsed em. There's also a...

Mine had both wiring issues and an out-of-spec sensor, idparts sent me a new one and now all is bliss.

Today I took The Squat Hatchling to get aligned after the HR spring install a few hundred miles ago. As I recall after the control arms and all else were replaced and billy struts installed, it had an issue involving the rear wich was out a few degrees in the red in certain specs when I first...

Solder, not sauter, took me a bit to figure it out lol.

Tother day noted more than once a raw fuel smell when passing the front of The Squat Hatchling (04 Golf on HR springs) and became concerned. Mechanic was asked to look over the engine as he was tending to other things, reported nothing detected. I was all like whaaaa there has to be something...

On the subject, swaybars would rationally seem to be a bigger seller than they are for those wanting to firm up their ride even if only because they should be faster/easier to install than struts or coilovers. But they're not for whatever reason. Most owners first go for performance...

My usual stop for d2 is On The Fly chain..... that used to be Chuckles.... that used to be BP. I seem to get best mpg and operation out of it so that is my goto. I read about Countrymark diesel being fancy and tried theirs as there's one local, everyone else spiked to 3.90 they were still 3.70...

My experience with mkiv tail lights is how do the damn thing stay in the holders in the first place, it's as if a bump in the road would pop them out with so little metal holding them in place.

Wow that's pricey! Anyway, I did the "remove entire bottom portion of the stock airbox with a sawzall" mod to my Jetta. Sure it works but it does nothing to keep water from splashing up into the filter, let alone dirt. Also if you are into intake noise there's your hint, you'll have lots of it...

Today the final HR springs (3 were installed some days ago, the last today) and new dog bone completed the suspension rebuild in the 04 Golf. What I didn't anticipate is the amount of engine travel it would remove from driving. When setting the car in drive there'd be a mighty lurch as the...

Was tooling down 41 today around 4:30 to see how the new HR springs were at hiway speed rr crossings and general hiway use, and a near identical twin TDI slow rolled by in the passing lane. This one had factory vw aluminum wheels on it too, but weren't the same design as mine. It was clean and...

Just recalled back in my Chevelle/Camaro days of the early 80s a friend (he who had the legendary 69 Camaro SS of the infamous cheese burnout incident) called me over after school and said he had something interesting for me to try in my SS. I had a clapped out 72 Camaro SS, muncie, 350...

Also look inside the rubber boot that goes betwixt door and body to see if any of the wires are chaffed.

Had nothing but trouble during cruise with led brake lights on the 04 Jetta, weird random drops, use of turn sigs, etc. Back to incandescent and no issue whatsoever. Some people seem to get away with it with no issue, and there are kits that amount to a few resistors to fool the ecu you can add...