Hi All,

After some help/advice!
I have noticed a droning noise which is getting worse, at the front of the car when braking from 40 mph approx down to stop (I can also feel a vibration in the brake pedal sometimes). I know it is a very vague question to ask but does anyone have any ideas what it could be? My thought was a wheel bearing but the noise is only apparent when braking would this be the case?

Many Thanks
Jenks

 

Do you have grooved discs? Mine do that, slightly.

Or maybe you have some deposits on the discs, clean them off with a couple of "brisk" braking runs.

 

Yeah have grooved disks and have tried that already, theres also plenty of life in them and the pads.

 

maybe they're warped.

 

No dont think they are warped because I have been driving quite light for a while before the noise started and its kept gettin worse, will have to jack it up 2morro and have a good look

 

pads may be getting low and moving on to that noisey compound?

 

Seized caliper...

 

jack it up and check the wheel bearings

 

New calipers all around and quite a bit of life left in in the pads, 8mm ish

 

Yeah fisrt thing 2morro - only thing that seems it could be?

 

it just sounds like text book wheel bearings to me.
Droning noise. Worse when weight is on front of car.
= Check for play in front wheels.

 

+1 make sure your hubs nice un secure aswell

ian

 

Might sound daft but check tightness on the wheel nuts......I had similar noises on a car a few years back and it turned out the garage that changed the tyre hadn't bothered to tighten the wheel properly! Just a thought

 

Thats what I thought, will give it a good check 2morro - just strange theres no noise any other time. But then again its a noisey car so I may not notice

 

Did have new fronts in the last 1000 miles - you never know!!

 

i get this problem also from time to time, i find that pulling over straight away and telling her to get the **** out usually sorts it!

 

PMSL....F**king classic!!!

 

Very nice

 

Was probably a bad idea for me laughing as much as I did at that comment last night......it didn't go down too well!!

 

Jacked the car up today and it didnt seem right, when jacking the car up it seemed to keep on getting higher but the wheel was still touching the floor - may just be being paranoid but I do not recall ever having to jack the car that high before the wheel left the floor (had to do it quite alot lately for different things). See photo below-


What do you think?