weird noise after car accident
heyy everyone... this is my first post here
last week I had a minor car accident in my vt... the roads were wet
and the tyres were bald :S so anyway... I was turning right at the lights
and the car slipped towards the right around the corner and I over corrected
to the left and ended up facing the wrong way, jumped up a big kerb and
nocked over a sign lol...
it ended up putting a hole in the rear drivers side tyre... amazingly all the tyres
and alloys are fine... but now whenever I drive I can hear a rumbling noise
coming from the rear drivers side...
mum says it might be the diff... but I don't know and i was just wondering if anyone
knows what it could be... because I have never noticed that noise before lol
thanks in advance
Donating Member
It could be a damaged wheel bearing caused by the impact with the kerb or it might well be the diff. Jack the rear end up and turn the wheels and see if you can hear anything unusual and where it is coming from.
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken.
:):):)
what he said, make sure the handbrakes offOriginally Posted by accentstencil
heyy yeah I had my dad look at it for me and he says it's nothing to worry about... and we had new rear tyres put on and they didn't say anything but I doubt they would have looked tbh...
is the wheel bearing or diff expensive to fix? :S
ta
yeah I don't think they would have checked it. They don't even test drive the car when you get new tyres.
Sliding up a kerb can do a fair bit of damage, its a lateral load on the suspension that its not designed to take. Wheel bearing as others have said would be likely, especially if its a noise that varies with speed but doesn't vary with load.
yeah lol I was devastated thinking the car would be too expensive to fix after the accident... she is my baby lol
the noise stays pretty loud and I don't think it varies with speed though... but of course you can only hear it when the car is moving... can I check it myself?
Donating Member
Now that I know you put new tyres on, it could just be noisy tyres. Some tyres make a loud noise. Try swapping the wheels (front with back) and see if the noise moves to the front.heyy yeah I had my dad look at it for me and he says it's nothing to worry about... and we had new rear tyres put on and they didn't say anything but I doubt they would have looked tbh...
is the wheel bearing or diff expensive to fix? :S
ta
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken.
it was making the noise with the spare tyre on it aswell though... :S
jack the back of the car up. grab the tyre at 12 and 6 o'clock and try to 'tilt' the tyre towards if there is any movement or sloppyness then maybe the bearings are your problem.
do the same thing with both sides of the rear.
process of elimination i would suggest.
the voices told me to
pay a mechanic to listen to it. they put it up on a hoist and run the car in gear. just listen with a screwdriver to your ear. it will pick up the noise
i do as the voices tell me
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