jphughan
New member
- Location
- Austin, TX
Hello all,
First I will say that I have already checked for suspension pucks that had been left installed, and thankfully there were none. Photos of the inside of the plastic "sleeves" show everything clear up to a yellow foamy looking thing that appears to be permanently stuck to the body.
I got a 2019 Golf R w/ DCC+DSG a few months ago and I'm loving it. There's only one thing that concerns me a bit, hence this thread. Where I live, there's a stretch of road that drops off a bit for a railroad track crossing, and then there's a good-sized bump on the far side of those tracks where the regular road resumes. In my wife's 2015 Honda Civic and my 2016 Porsche Cayman GT4, I can cross over that stretch at 45+ MPH and it's not an issue at all. When I first did that with the Golf, there was a very loud "wham/smack" noise that permeated the cabin, loud enough to make me worry that something had been damaged. It's the sound you might hear when dropping into a very deep pothole. I've found that I basically have to cross that stretch at no more than 30 MPH to avoid triggering that worrisome noise.
To be clear, I'm not complaining here. If some aspect of this car's suspension and/or chassis design means it's normal for it to need to be taken across bumps at noticeably lower speeds than other cars to avoid this, then I'm perfectly happy to do that. It just seems strange to me that a regular Civic that's set up to be softer than the Golf R and a Cayman GT4 that's set up to be more aggressive than the Golf R would both be fine running across this stretch of road at higher speeds, whereas the Golf R makes this loud noise, so I wanted to see if others had noticed this just to reassure me that there isn't something wrong with my specific example.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
First I will say that I have already checked for suspension pucks that had been left installed, and thankfully there were none. Photos of the inside of the plastic "sleeves" show everything clear up to a yellow foamy looking thing that appears to be permanently stuck to the body.
I got a 2019 Golf R w/ DCC+DSG a few months ago and I'm loving it. There's only one thing that concerns me a bit, hence this thread. Where I live, there's a stretch of road that drops off a bit for a railroad track crossing, and then there's a good-sized bump on the far side of those tracks where the regular road resumes. In my wife's 2015 Honda Civic and my 2016 Porsche Cayman GT4, I can cross over that stretch at 45+ MPH and it's not an issue at all. When I first did that with the Golf, there was a very loud "wham/smack" noise that permeated the cabin, loud enough to make me worry that something had been damaged. It's the sound you might hear when dropping into a very deep pothole. I've found that I basically have to cross that stretch at no more than 30 MPH to avoid triggering that worrisome noise.
To be clear, I'm not complaining here. If some aspect of this car's suspension and/or chassis design means it's normal for it to need to be taken across bumps at noticeably lower speeds than other cars to avoid this, then I'm perfectly happy to do that. It just seems strange to me that a regular Civic that's set up to be softer than the Golf R and a Cayman GT4 that's set up to be more aggressive than the Golf R would both be fine running across this stretch of road at higher speeds, whereas the Golf R makes this loud noise, so I wanted to see if others had noticed this just to reassure me that there isn't something wrong with my specific example.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
