- Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:32 am
#217639
Ok. I just need to vent and i figured this would be a better forum for it. The car has been making a humming noise for a week when i got over 40 mph. I did a little reading online and came to the conclusion it was either my tire rubbing on the wheel well liner (which happens often) or a bad wheel bearing. So i jack the car up today to see if it's rubbing anywhere and i see that the fender liner is flopping around but not rubbing on the tire. Sometimes after a car wash, it falls onto the tire so i just said "screw it" and cut part of it off. When i had the car jacked up, i pushed on the wheel and it had some play. Pushing on the top (camber-wise). So i figured: wheel bearing. Took it to a shop my buddy works at and 5 hours later they replaced the wheel bearing. As i'm driving home waiting to get out of traffic so i could get above 40 mph to enjoy the sound of no more humming, i notice a NEW noise! AND the hum is still there! So now, when i hit anything in the road, a bump, a crack, whatever, it sounds like something is loose and bouncing around down by the wheel/suspension/brake. Long story short (ish) i paid 250 bucks to get a new noise that's more annoying than the first. And they made me wait all afternoon for it. Rant complete.
right about now, future plan for this car is making it into beer cans.
