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Knowing if your wheel bearings are gone/going?

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  • Considered a stone in the tyre tread?
  • Considered a stone in the tyre tread?
    I'd considered a puncture of some sort but the pressure is good.

    I'll be in it again tomorrow so i'll pay attention again. I have to go pay the mechanic some time next week so i'll have a chat with him then & see if he has time to get it up on the lifters.
  • I'd considered a puncture of some sort but the pressure is good.

    I'll be in it again tomorrow so i'll pay attention again. I have to go pay the mechanic some time next week so i'll have a chat with him then & see if he has time to get it up on the lifters.
    Not a puncture, simply something stuck in the tread. It might be more noisy when the tyre moves around. Might pop out eventually. If you've not looked round the tread, take a peak. You can also get nails and things stuck in tyres which don't deflate as they are still well enough sealed.
  • Well i was out in it today & there's certainly something still there. Went to a large quiet car park & did some right turning.

    If the steering is pretty close to full lock then there's certainly something when turning right. Wasn't as defined a tick-tick-tick as the other day, this time it was more like metal rubbing on metal sort of like when your pads need changing (yet there's plenty of meat on my pads).

    This is annoying the hell out of me. Sent it in to get rid of a noise & it gets replaced with another noise.

    I'll be going through tomorrow and mention it. Hopefully get it on the lifters and determine what the issue is.
  • Robisere
    Robisere Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    What make/model of car?
    Front wheel drive?
    The noise you describe: take it to that large, empty car park. Windows open, (stereo OFF:) ) take it in turns as tight as possible and listen, on both locks.

    Does that tic-tick become a soft knock? It could be drive shaft joints. If a rubber boot is split, lubricating grease gone, dirt gets in and the joint wears. Having said that, I would have expected your mechanic to have looked for that, although the split boot is not always obvious.
    I think this job really needs
    a much bigger hammer.
  • Robisere wrote: »
    What make/model of car?
    Front wheel drive?
    The noise you describe: take it to that large, empty car park. Windows open, (stereo OFF:) ) take it in turns as tight as possible and listen, on both locks.

    Does that tic-tick become a soft knock? It could be drive shaft joints. If a rubber boot is split, lubricating grease gone, dirt gets in and the joint wears. Having said that, I would have expected your mechanic to have looked for that, although the split boot is not always obvious.

    Car is a 2001 Astra G.
    I was looking for split rubbers in and about the area. It's possible i could've missed something but from what i saw there was nothing split.
  • Robisere
    Robisere Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    If you or your mechanic find out what is causing the problem, please get back to us. I am interested to know what the problem noise is. I was 20+ years a workshop foreman, it is most definitely a "rotating objects" problem, maybe turning out to be one of those daft, simple causes. Had one, for example, caused by a piece of card picked up from the road on to the front of a wheel arch. It contacted the tyre only when driving forward at normal speeds, and made a flapping noise. The card was stuck snugly up into the wheelarch when stationary and was black with dirt. I found it by hosing out the wheelarches.
    I think this job really needs
    a much bigger hammer.
  • mchale
    mchale Posts: 1,886 Forumite
    Sounds like CV joint u/s
    ANURADHA KOIRALA ??? go on throw it in google.
  • Well i was in a large open car park this morning & put full lock on turning left & you can actually hear the tick-tick-tick when turning that side too, although the noise A) is still coming from the drivers side when it does it and B) is quieter when turning left than it is when turning right.

    Also sounding like metal rubbing metal really.

    I went to the mechanic to pay him up and he wouldn't take any money until it's sorted. He was nipping out as he was taking a car for test. Said i could come back in a couple hours (I'm too busy today) or failing that give it a few more days & if it's still doing it then he'll have it in before the end of the week.
  • Had the car in, wheel off, caliper off & disc off (passenger side - the side that had the bearings done).

    Disc looks rough but anyway the backing plate on the passenger side is rusty as hell & right at the bottom was a small shiny bit right where it's been catching.

    So hopefully that's the cause of the noise - although i wonder why it seemed like it was coming from the drivers side.

    Anyway i think he went to straighten it out but it is so rusty that it just moulded & broke off in his hand. The drivers side no longer has a backing plate.
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