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My car sucks! I hope this makes sense, Whenever I go over a bump in the
road the front end makes a clicking noise and it feels kind of rough. The
sound kind of reminded me of a bad CV joint but it's only when I go over a
bump. I had new CV joints put on 1-1/2 years ago and new struts put on 6
months ago. What could it be?
SCMancini83
If it was squeaking, I would say Struts/Shocks... but I really don't know.
Whenever I go over bumps in my Altima, it makes a squeaking sound, and a
clunking sound as if it's bottoming out due to my bad struts.
ThirdeYe
Thats it. It's more like a clunking noise. My struts are fairly new so I
don't think that's it, but who knows with my luck. :ohcrap: I've heard it
might be the sway bar, wheel bearrings, and ball joint. (No idea what any
of those are)
SCMancini83
jack it up, stick a jack stand under it, and turn/wobble/screw with the
wheel.
if you can't tell or if the noise is too faint, take the wheel off and do
this. When you turn the hub (by hand, it is a little tight) there should be
no abmormal noise. any intermittent/constant clicking or scratching noises
would usually indicate a bad wheel bearing. Find out if the bearings in
your car come in a hub unit or stand alone part. If they come n a hub, and
you are feeling good about messing with your car, change it. This will
involve removing the wheel, caliper, and hub assy. If you are not
comfortable with that- don't do it (have it done instead) and DO NOT
attempt to change a stand alone wheel bearing.
sierrawolfe929r
I can almost guarantee u its a bad ball joint, or maybe a bushing on ur
table. Ur best bet is to jack up the side u suspect is bad. Then grab the
wheel in question at 6 an 12 o'clock. without moving ur hands around the
wheel, leave em where i said, and push in with one hand and at the same
time pul out with one hand. Have a friend looking BEHIND the wheel while u
do this. He will see the moving part in question. U can repeat this
procedure with ur hands at 9 and 3 o'clock, to see if u have a losse
tie-rod and as well. This will get u in the right direction. Btw, don't
remove the tire for this test, u need it to get as much leverage as
possible. And oh yeah, don't jack the car up by the tables or whatever,
jack it up as if u need to change a tire. Ex: just behind the front wheel,
u need the jack out of the way for theses test and u don't want pressure on
the lower table as to not falsify ur tests. Good luck, hope this helps.
:thumbs:
Carcass
when you had the struts replaced did you get new tops for them or did they
reuse the old tops?
jnemeth
You can also...with the car flat on the ground (no jack) push on the tires
from the top with your foot, if they rock back and forth (kind of like
wobbling) then you most likely have a bad bearing.
Another way to tell, is get on an access road, and listen while turning
around in the U-turns for a sound from the sides closest to the highway,
with your window down on that side of course. If you hear some strange
sounds coming from the turns, it could be the wheel bearing...that's how we
diagnosed which side the wheel bearing was out on our 90 geo storm.
It was a hub assembly bearing...and not very difficult for us to do. Your
options with that type of assembly, are to either find another hub
assembly, or buy just the bearing, and have a machine shop press it in for
you. The bearings had here, were all bad, and it took me about 3 times
having them pressed, to give up and hit the junkyards for one. Saved
myself about $40 there, and it works GREAT!
And...as they said earlier, to remove that, you have to take off the tire,
and the breaks and rotors, and then go for the hub assembly.
Diblue1121
My dad has his berrings screwed up on the right side and it sound like a
bad rubbing noise. I want to know they say it will take 500$ to repair the
berrings. That sounds like an awful lot of money. He drove with them for
a year now So they are really bad but, that bad? I dont know.
Also getting on subject I had to had somthing put in my car for 24$ in the
back of the car it was sqeeky and it only happend when hitting a bump. HOpe
that helped.
Fgreco
check the stabilizer end links and make sure the strut mounts aren't bad,
or that the nuts didn't get tightened completely.
dodger65
