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Front end noise diagnosis help?
Posted by TimF [Email] (more from TimF) on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:59:08
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2000 9-3 SE manual tranny. I'm getting a whirr-whirr-whirr noise from the front end. It is not a typical wheel bearing noise in that it is not a constant grinding, more like tire noise (as if I drove through a patch of sticky asphalt). Most pronounced at 20-30 mph and when going straight and turning right. Present but less when turning left. I can feel it in the accelerator pedal. No change if braking or if in neutral or if clutch disengaged.
The left tie rod end was bad. I replaced it thinking that it was the tire wobbling in the tie rod. No immediate change, but is it plausible that the bad tie rod may have created an asymmetric wear patch in the tire that I'm still feeling?
I'll swap tires back to front to see of that helps...then what? I can't feel any obvious play anywhere. Bearings? CV joints? Tranny?
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