10-13-2022, 09:29 PM | #1 |
Drives: '17 SS 50th Camaro Join Date: Apr 2012
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Wheel Bearing?
Need some help here. Leave for a road trip next week for a week in the mountains and a Martinsville track night for the final swan song for my SS (selling her when I get back).
Well guess she didn’t like that as she developed a whirling sound this week (like a card in a bicycle wheel back in the old days) from what sounds like the front wheel. From researching this sounds like a wheel bearing. I’ve tested the wheel for play but it felt solid. My dilemma is thing I have a GM extended warranty and I’ve pleaded with Chevy dealers to get me in before I leave and they’ve basically said tough luck here’s an appt in 2 weeks. This is my only car so do you think the car will make the trip or am I crazy to consider it and should rent a car? Does the symptoms also sound like a bearing?
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10-14-2022, 12:33 PM | #2 |
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Bearings can make a sound like that, but so can a tire with a "feathered" edge that results in "serated" tread blocks. If the bearing has no discernable play in it, it's probably fine to keep driving on it. I'd take a close look at the tire.
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10-14-2022, 07:35 PM | #3 |
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I checked the tire and it’s fairly brand new (had a bubble in it) so don’t think it’s tire. Fairly certain the pothole that caused the bubble in the tire later caused the bearing.
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10-14-2022, 10:25 PM | #4 |
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It's not impossible. Can you spin the tire by hand with it jacked up and hear the same kind of noise? If so, then yeah it's the bearing. A new front bearing is less than $100 at Rockauto, and I doubt they are hard to replace. If you have any doubt, I'd just replace it.
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10-17-2022, 08:03 PM | #5 |
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Confirmed bad hub, got lucky and found a Chevy dealership that understood the urgency. Now just need the car back haha
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