Ok guys and girls, I have a question (obviuosly). I hear a noise in my left front wheel area. I have replaced the bearings on both the left and right front sides, so it may not be that. The noise kind of sounds like and Whump-Whump-Whump noise. It gets slightly louder when I turn left and when I speed up. I am not sure what the hell it could be. I have taken the tire off and checked the area and I cannot see anything that is cracked or out of the ordinary. Soooooooooooooo any suggestions, would be helpful. Thanks for any help at all.
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Try moving that tire to a different location and see if the noise moves with it. Shifted belts or other internal issues with tires can create all sorts of strange sounds.
If not, don't necessarily rule-out the hub assembly again. I've seen the "economy" ones only go about a year or less before getting noisy again. Based on this, I would only recommend anyone using the "premium" replacements for this application - assuming that you've got a trustworthy retailer to purchase from.
Is your car lowered at all? If the suspension isn't riding at the original level, it's possible that a CV joint could cause this noise too. At stock ride height, it would be fairly unusual for a CV joint to make any noise when going straight though - so it wouldn't be at the top of my list. At least there are only a few things that can cause a noise like that. Even dragging brakes can make weird noises if there's any rust present on the rotor - but that noise will usually change when the brakes are applied - as will wheel bearing noises in most applications.
Hope this helps a bit.
John
I would say bring it to a tire shop. sounds like a broken belt or cupping in the tire.
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I would say bring it to a tire shop. sounds like a broken belt or cupping in the tire
I hope it is not a broken belt, the tires are less than two months old. And it cost me 400 bucks to put four new ones on. Oh and I forgot to mention, I can feel the vibrations in the pedals as I am driving.
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Try moving that tire to a different location and see if the noise moves with it.
I am gonna try that today. And the car is not lowered at all.
"All men are created equal, only a select few become firefighters"
I moved the tires around and the noise is still coming from the front. It is not the tires. I was told it might be the CV joints? COuld this be an issue, and if so how hard is it to change the CV joints? Any help is always appreciated.
"All men are created equal, only a select few become firefighters"
I believe you have a bad strut. I know it doesn't make sense that a strut would make a cyclical noise, but I had a bad rear strut that made the "whump-whump-whump" noise and another bad rear strut that caused a terrible vibration around 55-60 and rattled like crazy. In both cases, the bad strut was leaking oil, so check that out.
2.2 97 Cavalier......the "Crapalier"
I think it would be CV joint, When u did the wheel bearings did u make sure youre bearing seal O-ring was properly seated, Some times its not, It causes a squishing sound, I had this had one time, Also had bad cv joint on the drivers side as well.
