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post Feb 10, 2005 - 1:34 AM
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celicarocker

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ok... bear with me here this is kinda hard to describe... first off, the noise only happens when the cars in motion, and im pretty sure its something to do with the wheels spinning... its kinda hard to tell where its coming from, but sounds like the front drivers side wheel... when im going slow you can hear it but its kinda faint, and when you get up to like 40 its loud, and at 80 its real loud... you can tell its something rotating, cuz it gets slower and faster with acceleration/deacceleration... it sounds like when your driving down the highway, and you hit that groved pavement on the side of the road... kinda like that when your going real fast.... but anway the weird part about it is, the noise stops if i make a left hand turn... like if i switch lanes, or take a corner, the noise goes away... straighten the weel out, and its back....

any ideas? explaining things as simple as possible would be best, i still dont know too many things about cars tongue.gif but any help would be greatly appreciated, im waaaay too poor to bring it to a mechanic....

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post Feb 10, 2005 - 2:23 PM
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yep is a wheel bearing. pop the car up with a jack and wiggle the car back n forth if it wiggles it's either your ball joint or your bearing. but if the noise is consistent with the speed than it's your bearing. the bearing should wiggle back n forth a lil bit if it's bad. it could also be your tread on your tire too. is it seperating at all? or maybe have a rock in it. check inbetween your brake pad and your rotor. my ex gf's civic had a rock stuck between the rotor and the pad it sounded like a wheel bearing so i got out looked at it and turned the wheel and there was a rock chillin there. it happened to her twice in like a month... what is the luck of that it's like a one in a million chance.

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