Speed related noise form the front

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:24 am

Noticed it this morning on way to work. Not had a chance to look her over.
Speed related noise, sounds like a rotational noise. Pretty loud at 80.

No degredation in braking
No vibration
Steering is straight

Thoughts ?

SP

robin · Post by **robin** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:58 am

Sanjoy wrote:Noticed it this morning on way to work. Not had a chance to look her over.
Speed related noise, sounds like a rotational noise. Pretty loud at 80.

No degredation in braking
No vibration
Steering is straight

Thoughts ?

SP

Wheel balance weight hitting the caliper?
Stone in caliper or behind the splash shield?
Brake pad rattling in caliper (I had this problem when I had an uneven disk that was picking up the pad and smacking it into the top of the caliper, then letting it drop down again.

I would jack up each side and spin the wheels to see if you can reproduce the noise.

Cheers,
Robin

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:00 am

Wheel bearing if the noise is constant.

Dan@JPS

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:43 am

robin wrote:
Sanjoy wrote:Noticed it this morning on way to work. Not had a chance to look her over.
Speed related noise, sounds like a rotational noise. Pretty loud at 80.

No degredation in braking
No vibration
Steering is straight

Thoughts ?

SP
Wheel balance weight hitting the caliper?
Stone in caliper or behind the splash shield?
Brake pad rattling in caliper (I had this problem when I had an uneven disk that was picking up the pad and smacking it into the top of the caliper, then letting it drop down again.

I would jack up each side and spin the wheels to see if you can reproduce the noise.

Cheers,
Robin

Will try to grab a looky at lunchtime , at w*rk.
Opening the window do not hear any more noise
Have had a stone in the calliper before and more of a dull noise.

Further info:
66k on the clock
Not had bearings replaced
MMC Brakes

Cheers

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:49 am

Probably be a bearing, mine failed on the front at 25k so at 60 your doing not bad. Even though you have no play when wiggling the wheel(diagonallys) if you spin the wheel you will prob hear/feel a grinding. Bearings are the same as a montego td so only about 25 quid each. Cheers Craig.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:10 am

FFS boys posting a problem on a Sunday morning and have a 3 set of tests / solutions before 12. Unbelievable.

Cheers muchly!

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:59 pm

Phoned the AA, covered by my AA Parts & Labour. Need to have a call which is silly though.

Hmm better accept Brunty as part of my servicing from last year!

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:02 pm

how can the AA say its covered by the warranty when you havent broken down and you dont know what it is yet??

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:14 pm

"It is a strange noise and I pulled over as I was worried something bad might happen. As you know I am based in London and it would be nusafe to drive 400 miles like this at mway speed"

"Very wise sir"

"I call a garage who knowledgeably told me it was 80% the bearings"

"Very good sir, if you call our man he will concurr this and then recover teh car to your garage of choice"

jj · Post by jj » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:29 pm

Brunty wasnt VAT registered and it is one of the stipulations of the AA warranty. Fingers crossed they dont spy it (but to be honest a bearing change in my S1 cost me less than 50quid so not the end of the world if they say no)

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:06 pm

jke11y wrote:(but to be honest a bearing change in my S1 cost me less than 50quid so not the end of the world if they say no)

Who did that for 50 quid? It costs 3/4 of that just for the bearing/circlips/hub nut and its at least a 2 hour job.

Dan@JPS

mac · Post by **mac** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:10 pm

2 hours for a front wheel bearing?

I can do mine on and off in about 4 but that includes the round trip to Lawrences

Mac

jj · Post by jj » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:58 pm

I removed the upright and took it to a local garage who got and pressed in the bearing, I then put it back together again, so thats probably the cheapest way of doing it and why it was cheap. I know Sanjoy likes cheapest options as do i

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