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Bearing or CV? Ticking when turning left...

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Old 09-29-2009, 11:27 AM
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Bearing or CV? Ticking when turning left...

After a search here, I am concluding a bad bearing, but wanted to see if anyone had any way to verify or similar noise and found it was the bearing...

When turning left (fairly good left turn, about 30* or better), I hear a ticking from the right front. Not very loud, but audible for sure. Car has about 56k miles on it. I'm running 205/60/16 tires and don't think they are rubbing. Doesn't seem to be enough of a turn to cause that. Could it be a CV?

Thanks for any input.

Tim
 
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Old 09-29-2009, 12:06 PM
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I had what sounded like ticking and scuffing coming from the right front when I made hard left turns. Soon the noise was happening whenever I moved the wheel to the left, but not to the right. Then it was while I was going straight too. The noise got pretty bad the final days before I had the wheel bearing replaced. I had run about 30,000 miles with -2º camber before the noise started.
 
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Old 09-29-2009, 12:19 PM
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I had a noise that sounded like 2 cue ***** hitting each other at about 45K on the car, had the output shaft replaced and that was the end of the noise
 
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