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Mr Premise

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Aug 14, 2005, 2:33:00 PM8/14/05
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Hi all,

When I've been driving for longer than about 2 hours, the steering wheel on my
97 mk3 Golf develops a strange scraping noise when I turn it. I've had this
occur on my previous Golf, and had it fixed when I had it serviced once - the
mechanic said it was just the horn contacts getting dry and scraping a bit.

It's just had a full service, so I'm loathe to take it in to a garage to sort
this out if I can do it myself - would a liberal squirt of WD40 down the back
where the wheel joins the dashboard sort this out? That's where the noise seems
to be coming from anyway.

G

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Chris Bartram

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Aug 14, 2005, 3:49:40 PM8/14/05
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Mr Premise wrote:
> Hi all,

>
> would a liberal squirt of WD40 down the back
> where the wheel joins the dashboard sort this out? That's where the noise seems
> to be coming from anyway.
>
> G
>

It might, but it would be worthwhile removing the plastic cowl and
having a look first. There's usually just a cople of screws holding it.

Nathan Lucas

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Aug 14, 2005, 5:43:42 PM8/14/05
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does it have airbags?

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Mr Premise

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Aug 15, 2005, 5:27:25 AM8/15/05
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In article <iWOLe.7804$CM....@newsfe7-win.ntli.net>, Nathan Lucas wrote:
> does it have airbags?

Yes, driver side only. How does this affect the problem?


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Chris Bartram

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Aug 15, 2005, 12:31:12 PM8/15/05
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Mr Premise wrote:
> In article <iWOLe.7804$CM....@newsfe7-win.ntli.net>, Nathan Lucas wrote:
>
>>does it have airbags?
>
>
> Yes, driver side only. How does this affect the problem?
>
>
There's also a connector for the airbag, but it's usually a
clockspring-like affair in the hub of the wheel.

Nathan Lucas

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Aug 15, 2005, 6:53:13 PM8/15/05
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was gonna say if it hasn't then take the wheel off and put some copper
grease on the contact ring.

wasn't gonna offer any suggestions if it did have airbags as they scare me!

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AndyR

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Aug 17, 2005, 1:58:46 PM8/17/05
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My VR6 sometimes has the same 'scrape', I recently just gently pushed the
plastic cowling behind the steering wheel to one side and the noise has gone
which is nice............ ;o)

AndyR
VR6

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