Light grinding noise

[joeyo]

Hey All,

For the last week or so I've been hearing a light grinding noise when I made right hand turns. The noise doesn't happen all the time, but only sometimes when I'm really turning the wheel (like pulling into my parking spot)

I thought I read somewhere that this is a CV joint problem? Does anyhow know how much it costs to fix this?

Thanks
Joey

[johnb16a2]

My car had a similar noise. In my case it was a scraping metallic noise in turns. I found rust had formed on the edges of the rotors and was touching the brake splash shield. I just ground off the rust and I was all set, cost $0.00.

[origamiguru]

Hey man,

does it make kind of a clicking noise as well? I've replaced both my axles from having CV joints wear out (and make a grinding/clicking noises). a rebuilt axle is about $120-150 CDN, and it shouldn't take more than an hour to replace.

If you have access to a hoist, or feel like crawing underneath your car with a flashlight, check near your front brakes (on your axle) and look for a torn rubber boot. if you find that it's cracked somewhere, then you can be pretty sure it's your axle.

Hope this helps man,

-Adam.

[joeyo]

Yah it's sort of a light grinding/clicking noise now that I think about it. Like it isn't really all that loud, I have to have the radio off and the window open to hear it.

I'll crawl under the car when I get home and have a look. Thanks for the info!

Joey

[sackerius]

so far seems like CV's... who knows tho... check it out and get back yo us..

also its not too big of a fix... set ya back im think 120$US.. or am i wrong?

[joeyo]

If it is the CV's should I just replace the whole axle or just the CV joint?

[johnb16a2]

If it is your CV joints just replace the whole axle. It's usually not much more expensive to replace the whole axle and it's alot easier than messing around with the joints.

[joeyo]

Well it turned out one of my calipers was seized up and was the cause of the noise. I had to replace the caliper, pads and rotor.

Sometimes owning an older car is such a pain in the ass. She's lucky I love her.

[frozen_Joth]

My car made a real bad clicking noise for a while and still does sometimes. I had to replace my brake pads before anything else and now the clicking noise doesn't happen as often as it did. I hope my joints last until I get my engine swap (Next Month)! I've always heard they were good to ride on until they made that clicking noise going straight.