Wattage

Update Car has been with Audi Southend all day for an update and to investigate this grinding/rubbing/rotational noise, as usual the real problem got lost in translation and the technician thought I reported “a noise at full lock”!? (I never actually said that to the woman that booked me in) 🤦🏻‍♂️ I took him round the car park in it where I could replicate the sound slightly but it is more noticeable once the engine is hot. Heseemed a nice bloke and assured me the car is solid and has checked all the bushes, ball joints, arb droplinks, engine mounts and everything is fine, he said he spent allot more time on my car than they usually would/should as they were very quiet today. Hmmmmm! All he did say was that my rear brakes are worn and I need two new tyres on the rear but at no point did anyone try to quote me on this work so feel they just want to wash there hands of it? This after all is the same Audi that I took my last A3 1.8tfsi too with a rattle, to be told the engine is fine “our chief technician worked on it” ! Later to find a broken rocker wedged inside the rocker cover, so running on 15valves only and plenty of metal curls in the sump! So I’m not sure I can trust their diagnosis to be fair!? 🤔 Has anyone actually tried changing the gearbox oil as has been said?

Did anyone ever get to the bottom of this? I have the very same issue. A ‘rubbing’ noise when turning left or right at low speed?? I have had both front hubs replaced so it’s not bearings, I’ve had new disks and pads to the front so it’s not that either. I was kinda thinking it might be collapsed brake lines as it almost sounds like the pads rubbing, similar to driving off with the handbrake on? Ive now discovered if I dip the clutch as soon as I hear the sound it stops (ie no noise if coasting and cornering so it’s got to be clutch/gearbox or dmf related??