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Just to make you feel better anyway about your impending cost that you couldn't have prevented...
Other day driving round some country roads, very slowly, barely any traffic and I see a hair on my steering wheel and try to flick it off, but keep missing. I completely lose concentration and drift to the left and smack the only raised curb in about 1 mile around on both my front and back wheels. £180 later and it's fixed... all for a hair on my steering wheel. Stupid idiot I am - completely avoidable! |
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ouch. That could have been worse. Are they alloys?
I'm not allowed alloys. |
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SOunds pretty much like a wheel bearing, easy to check and cheap to repair.
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Wheel bearing can whine, rumble, or just fail. Easy enough to check, if it sounds like a front bearing leave the car out of gear with the handbrake on and get hold of the wheel and give it a damn good shake, if it sounds like a rear leave the handbrake off and the car in gear and give the wheel a good shake. If the bearing is knackered you will feel it knock on the hub.
Don't want to alarm you but I had a rear bearing go on a VW I had years ago. It decided that it would weld itself onto the hub while travelling down the road and snap the wheel and hub clean off! |
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Both have hugeeeeee scrapes across them... but hey, I like the rough and ready look :rolleyes: |
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could also be a brake caliper that has started to seize.
I have had it happen on two cars in the past.Easy to check,Take the wheel off and look at the brake pads,If one side is worn a lot more on one side of the disc then thats what it is. Hours labour for the garage to give the pistons a clean. It could also be any of the other problems metioned though! |
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your wheel bearings have a tendancy to whine, more so, when you are going round corners or even slight knocking. So turn down the music and listen when you go round a roundabout and corners. Should be relatively easy and cheap to replace - I've done it enough times on the Polo
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