Massive Bang Noise

[luked]

Hi all,
I just purchased a 2012 Polo GTI on Saturday and I went to give it a bit from the stand still and heard a massive bang from the engine bay and felt it throughout the car. I was thinking a loose or broken engine mount.
Has anyone had this issue?

Cheers, Luke

[equiped]

Was there a person under the car???? just kidding...I hope it's nothing severe

[RUFNIT]

Sounds like axle hop... Quite common in FWD cars.

[Snail Style]

Axle tramp or possibly a failed dogbone mount.

[luked]

Axle tramp or possibly a failed dogbone mount.

It made the noise when shifting from 1st to 2nd, so what causes this 'axle tramp'?

[AndrewBurns]

Yeah if it happened during the shift from 1st to 2nd then it's probably due to the retarded traction control system. I get it a lot unless I turn it off, basically as soon as it detects wheel spin during a high-throttle shift it dumps all boost for about a second, which causes a big thump and loss of power. With the traction control off you might get a bit of chirp during the shift but it seems like what the traction control system does is much worse for the car.

[readerr0r]

Noise and shudder from 1st to 2nd could also signal wanged DSG clutches, fairly common with the DSG7

[Kesh]

Was it a bang or a dududududud, if that made any sense? haha

A massive bang could be a mis/back fire? but if it's repetitive, it could be wheel hop like the others have suggested.

[luked]

Was it a bang or a dududududud, if that made any sense? haha

A massive bang could be a mis/back fire? but if it's repetitive, it could be wheel hop like the others have suggested.

Wasn't anything like a backfire, there was what id describe like a jolt in the engine bay along with a clunk more so than bang

Thanks for the help everyone, its only happened the one time so I'm hoping its the axle hop everyone keeps talking about!

Cheers

[gavs]

It's axle tramp mate. You reckon it's bad in your polo....