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Whenever the car is moving I can hear a loud whinning / squeaking noise coming from the front wheels. It does it all the time..when coasting in gear, in neutral, and braking. Then last night I was driving on the highway and all of a sudden I felt a thumping sound coming from the front end. I can feel it in the floor. It almost feels like a flat tire but its not because I can't feel it in the wheel itself. It doesn't do it all the time. It comes and goes. It also doesn't matter if I'm stepping on the gas, brakes, am in gear or not. What could this problem be? Any info would be a great help.



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Originally posted by Kappa2006:
Whenever the car is moving I can hear a loud whinning / squeaking noise coming from the front wheels. It does it all the time..when coasting in gear, in neutral, and braking. Then last night I was driving on the highway and all of a sudden I felt a thumping sound coming from the front end. I can feel it in the floor. It almost feels like a flat tire but its not because I can't feel it in the wheel itself. It doesn't do it all the time. It comes and goes. It also doesn't matter if I'm stepping on the gas, brakes, am in gear or not. What could this problem be? Any info would be a great help.






Well my first question would be have you removed the wheel to look at the parts. Remove the wheels, look for broken suspension parts first off, see if you can move them around, if they have play in them.


Secondly with the wheel back on the car and properly torqued, jack it up and see if the wheel has play in it.

Hope that helps.



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You sure you don't have any loose lug nuts? Could also be wheel bearings, ball joints, tie rod ends. Lift it off the ground about 2" and stick a bar under the wheel and your hand on the tire at 12 oclock lift up and down for movement and inward and outward. Also check tie rod end play by hold the tire at 3 and 9 oclock and move side to side...look and feel for the least amount of freeplay. Wheel bearings tend to make more of a humming sound and change sound when you turn...so if you hear more sound making a right turn, then its likely the left wheel bearing...and if its more sound when you turn left, then its a right wheel bearing.How is the front breaks condition? any pulling when you break, or pulsating in the pedal? Front end problems are not hard to detect if you look closely, and have someone else do the tire movement checks. Bad caliipers could also be a problem...so check it out closely. If you still can't locate the problem...take it in for front end check.

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I remember posting a question here about front end noises. It turned out the front end noises that I was hearing was because my powersteering fluid reserve was low. It's the easiest of all and cheapest. $0.99 a bottle.

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does it do it more when you turn the wheel form side to side?

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How about the front brake pads?. They have a prong that makes a similar sound when it's time for replacement...


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