Squeaking

[Guest bettyboop]

Hi can anyone help me?

 

When I am driving I keep getting this squeaking everytime i turn left coming from the rear, my husband has had the wheel off brushed all the dirt away etc. Driving to to work fine, on way home from work it started again but not as loud. When I wash the car it seems to go away then come back. It also seems to start when the car has been running for about 15 minutes and gets louder and louder as you carry on with your journey.

 

Does anybody know what this could be??????

 

Please help its drving me mad :o

[techbod]

spray the rubber bushings with silicon/wd40 to lubricate them and see if that helps

[Guest bettyboop]

spray the rubber bushings with silicon/wd40 to lubricate them and see if that helps

sorry to be so thick i am a woman :o what are the rubber bushings, are they located near the brake discs????

 

claire

[techbod]

suspension bushes/shock absorbers/link rods arms that sort of thing- nothing to do with breaks :o

 

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I find this site very useful to introduce people to what to look for

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[Guest bettyboop]

suspension bushes/shock absorbers/link rods arms that sort of thing- nothing to do with breaks :o

cheers thx for your help! :angry:

[stimulator]

Have you got disc brakes or drum brakers on the rear? If it's drums then I'd say as the previous poster that the rubber bushes may be dry.

 

If you do have discs maybe the pads are touching the disc.

 

If a caliper or piston is jammed then the pad will be mis-positioned on the slider, this will allow it to float too much. As the car corners the centrifugal force will throw it against the disc where it will rub and make a noise. Do you have disc on the rear,

[Guest bettyboop]

Have you got disc brakes or drum brakers on the rear? If it's drums then I'd say as the previous poster that the rubber bushes may be dry.

 

If you do have discs maybe the pads are touching the disc.

 

If a caliper or piston is jammed then the pad will be mis-positioned on the slider, this will allow it to float too much. As the car corners the centrifugal force will throw it against the disc where it will rub and make a noise. Do you have disc on the rear,

 

Right we have discs on the rear, but seem fine.

 

The squeaking only happens when the cars is warmed up, its fine just a five min journey but say i have been going on a 15 min journey the squeaking appears, my husband seems to thinks it is like some kind of bearing ??????

 

Any advice would be appreciated

[techbod]

is it a squeak or a rumble? a rumble would say wheel bearing and it gets louder the faster you go

[stimulator]

Ok so you've got discs on the rear and it's OK on very short journeys.

 

As you corner does slightly pulling the handbrake lever make it worse or better?

 

As you corner does a very slight pressure on the brake pedal make it worse or better.

 

my bet would be that one of the pads is loose in the caliper and is 'falling against the disc' on cornering. This could be due to a small warp in the disc itself which causes the pads to retract further as it 'knocks' them back into the piston.

[Guest bettyboop]

is it a squeak or a rumble? a rumble would say wheel bearing and it gets louder the faster you go

 

Its a squeak and as the journey gets longer the squeak gets louder

[Guest bettyboop]

Ok so you've got discs on the rear and it's OK on very short journeys.

 

As you corner does slightly pulling the handbrake lever make it worse or better?

 

As you corner does a very slight pressure on the brake pedal make it worse or better.

 

my bet would be that one of the pads is loose in the caliper and is 'falling against the disc' on cornering. This could be due to a small warp in the disc itself which causes the pads to retract further as it 'knocks' them back into the piston.

 

hmmm not sure never tried to apply the brakes, did the handbrake but nothing happened apart from car beeping at me to say my handbrake was on

 

I will get hubby to check brakepads again

 

Thanks for all your help and advice it really is appreciated

 

If all fails will have to take it to a garage.

 

Claire

[techbod]

that's a different squeak more a clutch thrust bearing or you can hear a wheel bearing on the same side and because it get louder when going faster my prognosis would be the wheel bearing but not being there it might be something else so lets hope its the wheel bearing and not the tranny