Hi Guys -
I just got a 2007 Sport with 52K miles on the clock, and for the most part I love it. However, there is this REALLY annoying, and seemingly getting stronger, humming noise coming from the front axel - and which can be felt also in the steering wheel - whenever I take a left turn curve on the road, but only at highway speeds (beyond about 50 mph) and only to the left... I took it to the mechanics today with the idea that it probably was a wheel bearing, and most likely - as far as I understood from reading the archives in this forum - the one on the passenger side. The idea, however, was immediately dismissed by the mechanics on the basis of being way too soon for a wheelbearing to fail. Instead, they performed an alignment and tire rotation, which did not fix the problem at all...
I did not have a chance to see it from underneath while on the lift at the mechanics, but I have crawled under and do not see anything out of the ordinary, except for the steering tie rod ends (the last piece - with a female thread - that screws on the rod coming from the rack and pinion assembly - see a picture of the latter in the attachment)... The one on the driver's side is perfectly horizontal. That is, the perpendicular prone end (about 1 inch or so in length) points perfectly upwards, just like in the pic shown in the attachment. The one on the passenger side, on the other hand, is rotated about, I would say, 45 degrees (!). Is this normal? Why is it not positioned in perfect symmetry with the one on the other side? :wtf: Also, as a side note (and this is perhaps just my visual paranoia) the tie rod kind of looks not perfectly straight...
Has anybody had a similar problem with this sort of humming/vibration noise? After reading my description of the problem, does anybody have any comments or suggestions?
Thank you so much!
I just got a 2007 Sport with 52K miles on the clock, and for the most part I love it. However, there is this REALLY annoying, and seemingly getting stronger, humming noise coming from the front axel - and which can be felt also in the steering wheel - whenever I take a left turn curve on the road, but only at highway speeds (beyond about 50 mph) and only to the left... I took it to the mechanics today with the idea that it probably was a wheel bearing, and most likely - as far as I understood from reading the archives in this forum - the one on the passenger side. The idea, however, was immediately dismissed by the mechanics on the basis of being way too soon for a wheelbearing to fail. Instead, they performed an alignment and tire rotation, which did not fix the problem at all...
I did not have a chance to see it from underneath while on the lift at the mechanics, but I have crawled under and do not see anything out of the ordinary, except for the steering tie rod ends (the last piece - with a female thread - that screws on the rod coming from the rack and pinion assembly - see a picture of the latter in the attachment)... The one on the driver's side is perfectly horizontal. That is, the perpendicular prone end (about 1 inch or so in length) points perfectly upwards, just like in the pic shown in the attachment. The one on the passenger side, on the other hand, is rotated about, I would say, 45 degrees (!). Is this normal? Why is it not positioned in perfect symmetry with the one on the other side? :wtf: Also, as a side note (and this is perhaps just my visual paranoia) the tie rod kind of looks not perfectly straight...
Has anybody had a similar problem with this sort of humming/vibration noise? After reading my description of the problem, does anybody have any comments or suggestions?
Thank you so much!
