Posted by Goose on May 14, 2014 at 21:26:29 from (70.198.7.12):
Was working in Lincoln yesterday, 25 miles from home.
My Dodge Grand Caravan began making a kind of rubbing sound in the left front, mostly at slow speed. It would go away when you hit the brakes. It progressed to the point where it made a clicking noise under certain conditions. As it was getting progressively worse, I cut the day short and headed for home. On the way home, I convinced myself it might be the left front hub bearing failing for want of a better diagnosis.
I ruled out the CV axle, 'cause it was smooth and quiet during acceleration and the first sign of a CV axle failing is usually vibration during acceleration.
When I got home, I ran it into my shop, jacked up the LF corner, and began to pull the wheel to see what I could see. In the process, it dawned on me the lug nuts were nowhere near as tight as they should have been. Not sloppy loose, but loose enough that it took no effort to spin them off. I tightened the lug nuts like they should have been and checked the rest. The rest were OK. Road tested and no more noise.
The last time that wheel was off was when I rotated the tires several thousand miles back.
I never had that happen before, but I guess the tire shops know what they're doing when they put a note on their work orders saying that lug nuts on alloy wheels need to be re-torqued after 50 miles.
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