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Noisy when accelerating and steering right?

John

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Off for some investigation tomorrow but anyone want to hazard a guess at what might be causing it?

As above - it's a vibrating sound which sounds like a tyre is fouling on something - but clearly coming from the back right corner...

Cannot see anything obvious but I thought diff / shaft or even wheel bearing - but I understand the latter is pretty rare these days.

:dk:
 
Metallic in nature or just a dull knock ?
Is the handling affected ?
 
Dull knocking I would say.

Handling totally unaffected as is performance.
 
Rear control arm bush worn is my guess.

Worst case scenario - rear air
 
or a bulging tyre!
 
Hmm - you'd never have guessed actually unless you remembered another post I did about something I broke recently...

:rolleyes:

Didn't think much of it on my way there - had music on as usual and wasn't really listening for it.

Inde couldn't reproduce it once I was there. Surprising but I said we can try as I knew how to recreate it.

Nothing. WTF?

I worked it out in the end - I broke my mirror and bought a new outer casing - but needed a bracket fabricating to replace the bit I broke off on the frame (to save £300 for a Merc frame, or £120 for ECP one).

Meanwhile, I had used sticky tape to hold the old casing on and it had been fine for a long time - or I'd never heard the sound as I usually have music on.

Then a couple of weeks ago (when the noise started coincidentally), we took it off so our engineering bod could do a reccy on what was required - taped it back up as before.

Noise started but I only heard it on a subsequent morning - so it didn't correlate exactly and the noise sounded like the rear NS.

Our engineering bod finished rustling up something that fitted perfectly - and yesterday we fitted the new outer casing - which went on perfectly.

I had music on on the way home yesterday - so unlikely I would have heard the sound anyway but when I couldn't hear it this morning...

FFS.

It seems I was lucky with the first taping up - as both times since it has made the noise - and because the noise was actually coming from the front, that might be why my inde thought engine mounts!

PS: I should have said back left or NS corner in my first post - I typed right probably because it occurred when steering right.

:rolleyes:
 
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