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So during the summer, my gf's driver side wheel area starts to have this wobbling sound. You can start to hear it above 20 mph.. very slow at first.. and then faster and faster and louder when the speed is increased.
The tires, brake pads and supposedly the discs have been changed(i say supposedly cuz those b1tches could've ripped off my gf without her knowing so i have to check one day to see if the discs are indeed replaced) There has never been any accident recently and there is no steering wheel shake (tires are balanced). From what i can tell, the car isn't misaligned at all. Suspension and steering drives perfectly fine.
My guess is either one of two things. The axle cv boot is ripped or the tie rod is bent.
I checked the axle a month ago(because of slight clicking sounds while turning the wheel at idle) and there aren't any leaks or rips around the cv boot. And i had a bent tie rod (mine is rwd) but i never noticed any wobbling sounds, it was just real unsteady on freeway turns. What am i missing?
So someone with some experience help me diagnose this so that i can fix this annoying wobbling sound. Thanks a ton.
2004 civic ex coupe
73,000 miles.
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so the wheel feels fine when you drive it correct? do you have a warped roter (or is that what you ment by the disk)?
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wheel feels fine. yeah.. rotors/disc... were supposedly replaced.
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Is it sound?
Like when your driving you can hear some sort of sound?
Sounds like your almost driving over little speed bumps?
If so it maybe the tire, even though it feels fine. Small cavitations, forgot what it was called.
My mother had something similar with her car. Her tires wore slightly unevenly and started to create this wobbing noise when she would go above 30 or so mph speeds. It got louder and louder, as you can tell due to uneven contact with the pavement, weight causing uneven impact with the surface.
So the only solution was to change all four tires, and get a wheel alignment done.
Again I am saying tires
I have a civic with a ripped cv boot
It does not make this similar wobbing noise
I drive it over 60 mph
You can tell if it is the cv boot, by taking hard turns on that side and listen for clicking noises
To see how bad it is
I don't know about a bent tie rod
I usually take it to someplace simple like Sam's Club, wheel department, and ask them to just look at my tires, and then I would go to a tire shop, buy tires there, and then go about.
If she went and got her tire changed, and then drove on it without an alignment, the same problem will occur over time
Plus if you change your tires you should know.
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the sound happened before and after the tire change.
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Can you give more description of the wobbling sound? And perhaps a similar sound you could compare it to?
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similar to a helicopter sound youd see in movies. or if you open the opposite corner windows of a sedan.... you get this weird pulsating sounds when driving through the freeway.
That's the only way i can describe it really.
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similar to a helicopter sound youd see in movies. or if you open the opposite corner windows of a sedan.... you get this weird pulsating sounds when driving through the freeway.
That's the only way i can describe it really.
would you say it sounds sorta like a faint whistle?
because if you think it sounds like that, it might be a warped brake rotor, or just plain cheap NAPA brake parts.
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Yes that sound is what my mother's car made when she had her tire issue
And I am not sure what else to say since you said it did it before and after the tire change.
Unless she drove it with bad alignment for a while for it to wear again to the same point.
OR...the big OR
Is that they didn't change her tire.
The reason why I am saying this is because, when I looked at my mother's car, her tires weren't worn to a point where I could tell. I would say 85% thread life left, yet a professional told us that the bad alignment created this uneven wear and basically made our tires useless.
So my mother ordered new tires, and got a tire alignment.
I didn't believe this so I made sure that my mother brought her tires with her. They loaded it up and she brought them home, and me and few of my friends did our poking around, and yes it was worn unevenly just slightly.
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yeah tires were brand new. Unless they somehow stamped hankook on a bridgestone tire.
I think i'm going to end up taking it to a tire place or an alignment place.
Again.. the alignment seems perfectly fine... the car drives perfectly fine. It's just a weird wobbly hobbly sound.
