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Strange vibration. Bad cv joint??
I am getting a vibration coming from the passenger side front area it also makes enough noise to drive you crazy on a long drive. When I turn the wheel just slightly to the left it stops and when I turn it to the right it the vibration get worse and the noise is louder. Its been doing this for over a yr now and everything I have tried has not helped. I changed the wheel bearing last summer which was bad and grinding, tires this summer and just had alignment a week ago and I am still getting this vibration. I had someone suggest to me that maybe its the cv joint. Im wondering if the wheel bearing I bought couldve been faulty, it was brand new though. Any other opinions out there?
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In my experience, cv axles only made noise during turns. They will cause vibrations at highway speeds, though. I was gonna ask if you checked the tie-rods, but they should have been checked during the alignment.
Have you checked the wheel bearing for slack?
Have you checked the wheel bearing for slack?
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CV joints usually only make noise on accel with the wheel turned very sharp. its a loud clicking usually heard pulling out of a parking lot, etc. Its rare to have an axle that vibrates that bad, but doesn't make noise.
Was the alignment done at a reputable shop? I've had cars come in that were aligned by midas, etc and their front ends literally fall apart pulling into the shop!
Honestly, what you're telling me sounds like a wheel bearing, but you say thats already been replaced.
Was the alignment done at a reputable shop? I've had cars come in that were aligned by midas, etc and their front ends literally fall apart pulling into the shop!
Honestly, what you're telling me sounds like a wheel bearing, but you say thats already been replaced.
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I have checked the bearing for slack and it has no play in it what so ever. I had the alignment done by a local oil and tire shop. I havent heard any feedback on how they were with alignments but a lot of ppl say good things about them as far as everything else goes. maybe I did just get a faulty bearing and thats the issue. If I had not changed it last summer that wouldve been my first guess
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My brother-in-law used to drive a minivan with bad axles which he refused to fix. At highway speed the vibration was always there but it wasn't constant in intensity - always varying. I don't recall any noise.
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sound like pass side axle is gone. if you turn right noise gets louder means more then likely you have a bad pass/right side axles. but before you replace the axle rotate the tires see if the noise and vibration goes away and its kinda hard to mess up the bearing on this cars.
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im gonna either go with bad axle like what ppl said before, or im gonna lean towards damaged hub.... quick way to check jack up rf corner grab top and bottom of tire shake up and down check for movement, and also spin the tire n listen close for noise.
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You said you changed the wheel bearings already? They seem to be **** on these cars so I certainly wouldn't over look them. Wheels bearings went bad at 50k miles... am I driving a GM??? Mine had zero play when I checked them, yet the right one howled at highway speeds. The point is, you won't necessarily see any play or notice anything wrong with the bearing at all, even though it's bad. I took a stab in the dark and replaced them and the noise went away. Go figure.
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I have been taking the bearing into consideration but if it is the bearing i would have had to been a faulty one bc it has been doing it since last summer and thats when I had changed the bearing. I just wanted to know if the axle could be a possibility too. I will have to do some more inspecting to see if I can pinpoint the problem since neither part is cheap. I dont know if its bc I live in the middle of no where but the cheapest I found the bearing was $190 for the one side. The average price was around $300. I would hate to see the price tag from a dealer.
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I have been taking the bearing into consideration but if it is the bearing i would have had to been a faulty one bc it has been doing it since last summer and thats when I had changed the bearing. I just wanted to know if the axle could be a possibility too. I will have to do some more inspecting to see if I can pinpoint the problem since neither part is cheap. I dont know if its bc I live in the middle of no where but the cheapest I found the bearing was $190 for the one side. The average price was around $300. I would hate to see the price tag from a dealer.