A rumbling or gravelly noise which goes away when turning right is a right side bearing. A right hand turn throws more weight to the left side wheels, reducing the load on the right.
Certainly jack up the car to spin the wheels and try shaking them every which way to try to detect play in the bearing, but sometimes none of this works. Sometimes they're perfectly fine, just noisy.
Does anybody else have this problem?
This sounds right. My observations were not the best as both sides on my Mazda had issues simultaneously in both times the bearings went out. Either way I turned, I heard noises.Woodie wrote:A rumbling or gravelly noise which goes away when turning right is a right side bearing. A right hand turn throws more weight to the left side wheels, reducing the load on the right.
Certainly jack up the car to spin the wheels and try shaking them every which way to try to detect play in the bearing, but sometimes none of this works. Sometimes they're perfectly fine, just noisy.
The graphic below demonstrates what Woodie is saying and supports the notion that a left turn puts pressure on the opposing right side.
Try to do what Bootymac suggested by lifting the car on a jack stand and checking for wheel play and grinding when rotating the wheel by hand.
I know that you may be on a tight budget, but I'd replace both at the same time. Maybe it's just one bad bearing. However, maybe it was caused by poor road conditions and corrosion in which the other side would have been equally exposed and could fail shortly. For the sake of balance and equal wear, I'm inclined to think replacing both sides at the same time is best.
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I'll have to lift it this weekend and monkey with it. I just got it aligned and the mechanic said my front left inner tire tread is gone. Toe was off by .08 degrees. Looks like I will be broker than broke soon.
And they want $965.22 for new tires!! What tires do you all use?
And they want $965.22 for new tires!! What tires do you all use?
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Tirerack.com - I'm looking at replacing my OEM Dunlops (wear bars at 25k miles!) with these:a98gsxr wrote:I'll have to lift it this weekend and monkey with it. I just got it aligned and the mechanic said my front left inner tire tread is gone. Toe was off by .08 degrees. Looks like I will be broker than broke soon.
And they want $965.22 for new tires!! What tires do you all use?
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp ... ort+COMP-2
Bridgestone has a $70 rebate good for a few more weeks, trying to decide if I buy now or wait it out a little longer since I don't drive much at all.
http://www.tirerack.com/specialoffers/d ... d=R3195462
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