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[aaronjb]

I'm familiar with the sort of groaning-droning noise that wheel bearings often make when they've developed some play, but the other halfs car has started making a squealing noise (not unlike squealing brakes only a little quieter) that comes and goes as you load and unload the right hand side of the car by going round left & right corners respectively - that makes me think wheel bearing, but it's not a noise I've heard from a bearing before..

Any thoughts? I haven't had it up in the air to check for play at the wheels yet, although it's due it's MOT in a couple of weeks so that will probably make any play abundantly clear in the form of a fail sheet!

The car, incidentally, is a 998cc K11 Micra (which we're now using for work to save fuel  )

[Kevin Wood]

Could be a feathered edge on the brake pads. Might be worth taking them out and filing a chamfer on the leading and trailing edges? See if that cures it?

Does it happen around the straight ahead position when applying a little lock or only when there's quite a lot of steering lock on? If the latter, could be a CV joint.

Is it actually a little squeaky voice repeatedly saying  "Get a  proper car""Get a  proper car""Get a  proper car""Get a  proper car".

 

[aaronjb]

It seems more related to 'weight transfer' than steering lock, if you see what I mean - a sweeping left hand bend at 50mph will make it squeal, so will a tight hairpin at 15mph, but the same corners taken more sedately* won't.

Oddly it doesn't seem to squeal with both of us in the car but it complains more when there's only a driver in there .. especially me (considerable weight transfer to the drivers side, I suppose ).

I'm sure it had a new CV joint at the last MOT on one side or the other - I'll check up on that, just in case  and it's due a service anyway so I should really have a peek at the brakes..

(*sedate being relative to the vehicle )

[Kevin Wood]

Incidentally, my brother had a similar problem on a Golf and, on inspection, we found that the hub nut had come undone.

[05omegav6]

That would do it

[Marks DTM Calib]

Some bearing play resulting in the disc running on the shite shield?

[aaronjb]

Incidentally, my brother had a similar problem on a Golf and, on inspection, we found that the hub nut had come undone.

  You remind me of a story though - a friend of mine took an MR2 he'd just finished putting a new engine in for it's MOT; the tester failed it as having a loose hub nut on the rear. He challenged them on it and they said "Well, how do you know it was tight?" - his answer was "The fact that I'd only just done it up & staked it when we finished putting a new engine in before we drove here". The MOT place suddenly suggested they were mistaken..

Some bearing play resulting in the disc running on the shite shield?

Good idea - I need to get the chance for a good blat* with just me in it again and see if the noise comes & goes on the brakes, actually, as I didn't get chance last time.


(*again, 'blat' is in terms of what you can do in a Micra.. )

[05omegav6]

Perspective is a wonderful thing

[chrisgixer]

Grease the baring seal...?

[Doctor Gollum]

Apart from the noise, how does the car drive?