bigred177
Veteran Member
97 Jetta, 245k miles.
Took the car to have all four wheel bearings replaced, control arms rebuilt, new ball joints, new tie rods, and new shocks front and rear. I don't know the age of the axles or clutch, but the clutch is on its way out.
After finishing the work with no apparent problems I took the car for an alignment and then to Discount Tire for a balance and rotation.
After the rotation, the car was making a metal on metal sounding noise. In the past after a rotation sometimes one of my parking brake cables would come out of its hanger and rub on the rim, making a "click" noise as it bumped the wheel weights on the inside. That's what this sounded like, but wasn't the case this time.
It did it briefly then went away. I drove the car about 4k miles and it seemed okay. Then it started making the noise again faintly, growing louder over the course of about 500 miles to the point that it sounded like the car was going to come apart. It happens driving straight or in a turn, no difference. It would also have an intermittent vibration associated with it that was only present under power, like something is out of balance but it won't do it while coasting. The vibrations will get pretty violent before calming down and going away for a while.
The noise and vibrations will go away for some time and then come back. It sounds like it's coming from the center of the car. I thought it was an inner CV, but the mechanic said they look good. He also "drove" the car on the lift and couldn't get it to make the noise.
Over time the noise will go from faint, to making the noise under accel, to making the noise on accel and decel, then making he noise even while in neutral coasting. Then it'll stop for 100 miles.
I'm at a loss.
Took the car to have all four wheel bearings replaced, control arms rebuilt, new ball joints, new tie rods, and new shocks front and rear. I don't know the age of the axles or clutch, but the clutch is on its way out.
After finishing the work with no apparent problems I took the car for an alignment and then to Discount Tire for a balance and rotation.
After the rotation, the car was making a metal on metal sounding noise. In the past after a rotation sometimes one of my parking brake cables would come out of its hanger and rub on the rim, making a "click" noise as it bumped the wheel weights on the inside. That's what this sounded like, but wasn't the case this time.
It did it briefly then went away. I drove the car about 4k miles and it seemed okay. Then it started making the noise again faintly, growing louder over the course of about 500 miles to the point that it sounded like the car was going to come apart. It happens driving straight or in a turn, no difference. It would also have an intermittent vibration associated with it that was only present under power, like something is out of balance but it won't do it while coasting. The vibrations will get pretty violent before calming down and going away for a while.
The noise and vibrations will go away for some time and then come back. It sounds like it's coming from the center of the car. I thought it was an inner CV, but the mechanic said they look good. He also "drove" the car on the lift and couldn't get it to make the noise.
Over time the noise will go from faint, to making the noise under accel, to making the noise on accel and decel, then making he noise even while in neutral coasting. Then it'll stop for 100 miles.
I'm at a loss.