[Billabongi]

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?

[Msquared]

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.

[Billabongi]

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.

[Msquared]

Originally Posted by Billabongi

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.

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.

[Billabongi]

Confirmed bad hub, got lucky and found a Chevy dealership that understood the urgency. Now just need the car back haha