Scraping noise in car,worse when turning - any ideas?

butterfly72

Today I was driving my Vauxhall Corsa and it started making a scraping sound. It sounded just like I was dragging something along on the road and seemed to come from the front of the car. It was worse when I turned corners and fairly loud. Anyway, it made this noise until I parked up. I checked under the car, tyres etc but nothing looked amis. When I got back in the car an hour later the noise had gone and its been ok since.

Any suggestions? Should I take it to be checked even tho its stopped?

thanks

Stigy

Could have been a piece of trim from a wheel arch that has now fallen off. Was it any different under braking?

butterfly72

I don't think it was different whilst braking. Turning was definately the worst. Do you think I should take it to a tyre place to get it checked out or my local garage?

thanks

McKneff

Maybe a stone in the wheel mechanism. and its worked its way out.
Happened to me once, cost me a fortune at the garage for someone to look at it.
(i still have the stone :rotfl::rotfl:)

If its not happening now I would tend to ignore it.

eco

Check your steering wheel fluid, the garage didn't put the cover on mine properly, anyway as soon as I put some in it stopped the scraping noise.

MrRedundant

Wheel bearing, brake pads, damaged trim, damaged exhaust,

So many possible explanations.

Stigy

Given that it's stopped now, I wouldn't deem it that serious. Anything else tends not to just disappear.