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Tick tick tick from wheel

  • 10-10-2009 7:29pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭


    This is a weird one, there is a tick, tick, tick from the front drivers side wheel when moving, it sounds exactly like a nail or stone stuck in the tyre, but there is nothing there at all, I've checked it again and again. It speeds up as the car speeds up and clicks for every wheel revolution. It is not engine related.

    There are no other sounds, no grinding, just this. Any ideas?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭kasper


    put the car on level ground engage handbake jack up the wheel and spin it with your hand if you have to remove wheel and see if you can see or hear the noise


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,167 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    Your brake pads have a small metal brake clip on them. Possibly this has become loose and is clicking as the rotations pick up.

    Happened to me. Drove me mental.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭746watts


    Have you cable ties on your wheel trims? Aerodynamics might be forcing the loose end of one of them to tap against the wheel trim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    A broken or breaking CV joint would also make this noise


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,167 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    peasant wrote: »
    A broken or breaking CV joint would also make this noise

    You would feel this in the steering, surely?

    (Gone through a fair share of CV Joint's in my days)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,601 ✭✭✭ShayK1


    a stone in the hubcap ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Berty wrote: »
    You would feel this in the steering, surely?

    (Gone through a fair share of CV Joint's in my days)
    Nope, not necessarily...not if it isn't gone completely yet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Think he's alloys on his Focus. Was thinking CV joint too...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Stevie Dakota


    Thanks guys, it's on the Megane and does have alloys.

    I'm going to put on the spare tomorrow to see if it is the wheel or not, I'll check the brakes while I'm at it.

    If it is a CV joint is that a big job?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭746watts


    Thanks guys, it's on the Megane and does have alloys.

    I'm going to put on the spare tomorrow to see if it is the wheel or not, I'll check the brakes while I'm at it.

    If it is a CV joint is that a big job?

    any update on tickidy tick noise?

    CV joint change is a day in the garage. Don't know what cost would be coz I never go to a dealer (allow €80/hour plus parts). Qualified excellent mechanic down the road for stuff I don't want to do myself.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Stevie Dakota


    Update.

    I swapped the right front tickety wheel with the spare, drove it and no tickety. Examined the old tyre VERY carefully and there is nothing hard stuck anywhere in the tyre. Totally perplexed. Put the old tyre back on (spare is a spacesaver) and the tick is back.

    When the old wheel was jacked up and bolted on I jiggled it to see if there was any play and there did seem to some miniscule some play in the hub, but it was tiny (.5mmish). Could this be causing it, but if it is in the hub/CV joint why was it not an issue when the spare was on?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Update.

    I swapped the right front tickety wheel with the spare, drove it and no tickety. Examined the old tyre VERY carefully and there is nothing hard stuck anywhere in the tyre. Totally perplexed. Put the old tyre back on (spare is a spacesaver) and the tick is back.

    When the old wheel was jacked up and bolted on I jiggled it to see if there was any play and there did seem to some miniscule some play in the hub, but it was tiny (.5mmish). Could this be causing it, but if it is in the hub/CV joint why was it not an issue when the spare was on?

    Maybe swap the old wheel for another one on the car and see if the problem remains. At least that'll rule out the tyre being at fault.


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