how can i tell if my wheel bearing is going out. my car has gotten ridiculously noisy lately and has begun to shake and vibrate a bit. is it my wheel bearing or something else????
is it a growling noise? you can also check a bad wheel bearing by jacking the car up, and shaking the wheel from all angles (left to right, up and down, diagonally). if it moves in all directions, you have a bad wheel bearing. but sometime the bearing goes and wont have any play, just noise. listen very closely as to where the noise is coming from
When my left front wheel bearing was going bad, the wheel never got wobbly. I just sounded like someone was firing a machine gun under my car while I was driving down the highway.