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Noise When Accelerating

  • 23-08-2011 6:52pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭


    I have a 99 civic vti and recently I got a noise in the cabin sounds a bit like a whining noise, like when you hear an aeroplane overhead. The noise becomes louder when accelerating and seems to be coming from the rear. I'm thinking wheel bearing or hub but i cant seem to place what wheel? I've jacked up each wheel and spun and shook each wheel but can't seem to find any difference between them. Now i not even sure it is a bearing. Any ideas? Thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Is it only when you are accelerating? Does it make the whining sound at higher constant speeds?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭pk10216


    Plug wrote: »
    Is it only when you are accelerating? Does it make the whining sound at higher constant speeds?
    no mate the noise is constant even when i have my foot off the accelerator


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    It could be the driveshaft bearing or do these have them, Im not sure on that. When driving a long press down the clutch, also you could try and put it in neutral and see is the noise still there. Eliminate a few things first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭pk10216


    Plug wrote: »
    It could be the driveshaft bearing or do these have them, Im not sure on that. When driving a long press down the clutch, also you could try and put it in neutral and see is the noise still there. Eliminate a few things first.

    Yeah I've checked clutching it when driving and the noise does not disappear. It does seem to be coming from the rear and I kinda think its one of the rear hub bearings. Just want to be sure before forking out for a part I don't need and end up spending more in the long run. I ideas on how to check bearings


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    pk10216 wrote: »
    Yeah I've checked clutching it when driving and the noise does not disappear. It does seem to be coming from the rear and I kinda think its one of the rear hub bearings. Just want to be sure before forking out for a part I don't need and end up spending more in the long run. I ideas on how to check bearings
    Give them a good spin when they are off the ground(obviously), make sure you have silence around you. Metal sound is the best I can describe it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭pk10216


    Plug wrote: »
    Give them a good spin when they are off the ground(obviously), make sure you have silence around you. Metal sound is the best I can describe it.

    I had the rear wheels up but the don't seem to spin to freely. Spin free for part and then stick on the brake disk in a certain spot. Could it be warped brake disks causing it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Yeah it probably is a warped disk causing the on/off of the wheel spinning. Does the sound go on and off too when you were spinning it by hand? can you feel vibrations up the brake pedal when braking?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    brake pads nearly always rub on disc a little you may need to remove the brake pads to get the wheel to spin fast enough to hear bearing noise


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    dharn wrote: »
    brake pads nearly always rub on disc a little you may need to remove the brake pads to get the wheel to spin fast enough to hear bearing noise
    But the way he describes it is as if the disk is well indeed fooked. I understand that the disk and pads always rub together and make the sound they do but this is different.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭pk10216


    Plug wrote: »
    But the way he describes it is as if the disk is well indeed fooked. I understand that the disk and pads always rub together and make the sound they do but this is different.
    still scratching my head as to what it is. jacked up car again spun wheels think one of the tyres is a bit cupped or not seated right on the rim and think the rear discs are due for a change. gonna swap that tyre to the front and see if the noise moves with it. thanks for the advise lads


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭muckeyw


    If there not spinning freely I'm just wondering does that car have handbrake shoes in the hub of the disc maybe they are sticky there's some thing no one else has mentioned also rock the wheel side to side ant up and down with your hands check for play in the bearing


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