Wheel chirping

[Therian]

Hoping you guys could help me out with this

GFs car has a chirping sound coming from the wheel over 2k rpm. Applying the brakes does not make the sound decrease. Before this, it made a 'whoosh, whoosh, whoosh' sound through first gear, but not after.

I haven't had a chance to look at it/diagnose, because she's at work right now.

Any ideas?

 

[1slow95]

What type of car is it? Is it RPM dependent or speed dependent?

 

[Therian]

VW GTI MKII (1992)

The sound increases with speed, not RPM...as far as I can tell from her description

 

[94-302-vert]

Front or rear, make noise at any other time?

Kinda sounds like a wheel bearing or maybe even a half-shaft.

 

[Therian]

Front or rear, make noise at any other time?

Kinda sounds like a wheel bearing or maybe even a half-shaft.

Front-left wheel only. Don't wheel bearings usually make a 'humming' sound.

Also, this all started after she had a shop do the balljoints...any coincidence?

 

[HISSIN50]

Any chance it's a CV joint issue (have they been messed with lately)?

 

[Therian]

Any chance it's a CV joint issue (have they been messed with lately)?

Well I myself haven't had a chance to mess with the suspension yet. But maybe when the shop did the ball joints?

 

[HISSIN50]

That was my thought Duncan. It's been years since I worked on a VW but in order to do a BJ, the halfshaft probably came out of the hub. If it was hammered, that can damage the CV joint (certainly not that this is what happened, but it was a thought I had).


Maybe there are idiosyncrasies that the VW forum (or Nik) would say "oh yeah, it's ABC").

 

[go-stang5.0]

"It's been years since I worked on a VW but in order to do a BJ,"

You dirty, dirty old man.....