Knocking at rolling pace

[Doug_MPS6]

Jack the car up and rotate the wheels one at a time by hand. That should help you isolate the noise and also give you a chance to check for crook bearings and loose nuts. Good luck!

[slixx]

Jack the car up and rotate the wheels one at a time by hand. That should help you isolate the noise and also give you a chance to check for crook bearings and loose nuts. Good luck!

Great idea.. will do this tonight and report back

[slixx]

Jack the car up and rotate the wheels one at a time by hand. That should help you isolate the noise and also give you a chance to check for crook bearings and loose nuts. Good luck!

I have found the problem and have posted it here

Gearbox noise - Sounds kinda nasty

Thanks Doug


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[Doug_MPS6]

Hi SLIXX, glad to be of help.

I suspected the possibility of loose nuts and it is more common than one might imagine. You're lucky the wheel didn't part company with the car and cause you to spear off the road at speed. Some service centres and tyre places don't always get them all done up - (read "some mechanics are not all that bright").

However, the check I suggested is a good way if homing in on wheel bearing issues, crook CV joints, rubbing brake pads or even unseen debris such as twigs caught up and rubbing inside a wheel. Seriously loose wheel nuts will give you pretty terrible steering too. A friend of mine was once nearly driven mad by a credit card that had mysteriously got stuck inside the wheel rim/tyre interface and was going "flub, flub, flub" against the suspension arm as the wheel rotated, like those old games we used to play as kids when we used a piece of card against our wheel spokes to make our push bikes sound like they were motorized.

If you can imagine it, it can happen!