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built2burn · 08-14-2007, 02:33 AM

i've been having a clicking noise on my front driver's side wheel. I had my step dad looked at it(he used to be a mechanic) and he thinks it may be something on the tire like tar(i live in the country with alot of tar and chip roads) but i havent been able to find anything on it. The boot where the cv joint is isnt ripped or anything. What else could be wrong with it?

It clicks just about all the time(every rotation of the tire it clicks) and it doesnt click if i just spin the tire when i have it lifted

99le camry

thanks for any help

ghettosled · 08-15-2007, 08:23 AM

do you have hubcaps?

Kingdom934 · 08-15-2007, 08:53 AM

Here's what you do if you got plastic caps. Take all of them off and take it for a spin (not just the tire, take the car out for a drive, lol). If the noise is gone, well you know the problem.

My mom's front driver wheel clicks...or at lease the cap does. One of the clips is broken due to a tire rotation...where somebody didn't put it on right and there's a broken plastic clip on it. It stays on but just clicks.

Kep · 08-15-2007, 12:12 PM

If the hub cap trick doesn't work you can determine if it is the tire or not by either rotating your tires and see if the clicking moves or swapping your spare tire and see if the clicking goes away.

Out of curiosity, if you apply the brakes lightly and feel the pedal moving up & down your rotor may be warped. Enough to cause clicking would be pretty extreme though.

Check the air baffle plate at the brakes (thin metal vane) to see if you may have bent it and it is rubbing on something.

If it is the CVC joint it should get worse. Usually it will be noisier when you turn one way or the other. However, I don't recall one click per revolution. It was a whole bunch...

Kep

built2burn · 08-18-2007, 11:22 PM

well i found it. there was a weight to balance the tires that came loose and was spinning around the hubcap

Velox_camry · 08-25-2007, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by built2burn

well i found it. there was a weight to balance the tires that came loose and was spinning around the hubcap

Wow...I wouldn't have thought of that one. Glad you got it sorted out.