Only 18 months old and I was out last night far from home and when I got to the town I was going to there was a horrendous extremely loud screaching noise from the nearside. Very difficult to tell if it was front or rear or if it was wheel related or not. But it was so loud and off putting that pedestrians were turning to see what was coming along the road. This was at 20-30 MPH.
I stopped the car and looked around and could see nothing.
Tyres all good and attached to the rims!
Looked underneath and could see nothing trapped that I was dragging along
Turned the front wheels and could see nothing caught
Used a torch on front and rear wheelarches and nothing
I turned the car round and tried turning the steering wheel/braking/accelerating and this most horrendous metallic noise (the kind you might expect if a bush had come off a rotating spindle and there was metal to metal contact) was still there, accompanied by what appeared to be a rotational clunk.
I very slowly drove what was probably a few miles but seemed like eternity and decided to call the RAC. Not having a safe place to stop I decided to go a few hundred yards up the road to a McDonalds where I could wait in the warm with a coffee. As I got there it got a lot better. I then, instead, drove on further at 40-50 MPH and finally it stopped. A hundred mile drive home in pouring rain was not the best when I was dreading something coming off or falling apart.
No noise at the moment and tomorrow it goes into my local dealer but what on earth could it be?
I stopped the car and looked around and could see nothing.
Tyres all good and attached to the rims!
Looked underneath and could see nothing trapped that I was dragging along
Turned the front wheels and could see nothing caught
Used a torch on front and rear wheelarches and nothing
I turned the car round and tried turning the steering wheel/braking/accelerating and this most horrendous metallic noise (the kind you might expect if a bush had come off a rotating spindle and there was metal to metal contact) was still there, accompanied by what appeared to be a rotational clunk.
I very slowly drove what was probably a few miles but seemed like eternity and decided to call the RAC. Not having a safe place to stop I decided to go a few hundred yards up the road to a McDonalds where I could wait in the warm with a coffee. As I got there it got a lot better. I then, instead, drove on further at 40-50 MPH and finally it stopped. A hundred mile drive home in pouring rain was not the best when I was dreading something coming off or falling apart.
No noise at the moment and tomorrow it goes into my local dealer but what on earth could it be?
