Droning noise

**MobyUK** · Monday 11th July 2011, 19:12

Hi. I have a droning noise that seems to come from the front drive train when I turn corners. It's quite noticeable at low speeds and seems to be getting worse. I'm assuming it has to be either wheel bearings or cv joints. Can't decide whether to try bearings first or maybe go for complete drive shafts. I'm not doing the job myself so labour costs will be more if I do it piecemeal.

**T5frankie** · Monday 11th July 2011, 19:13

whell bearings drone ,cv joints click when turning corners

**Vikingxl** · Monday 11th July 2011, 19:20

Try driving the car without the wife/girlfriend I find that stops the droningnoise

**MobyUK** · Monday 11th July 2011, 20:00

Very good Viking. I'll take that under advisement.
Take your point frankie. I think I'll go with bearings first. I see partsforvolvosonline do them for £62.60 a side but I've read some bad comments about Scantech stuff.

**MobyUK** · Tuesday 12th July 2011, 09:21

Does anyone have any experience with Scantech wheel bearings from PFS?

**p fandango** · Tuesday 12th July 2011, 09:34

Originally Posted by MobyUK

Does anyone have any experience with Scantech wheel bearings from PFS?

think they last about 3 months

**M-R-P** · Saturday 27th August 2011, 18:07

Originally Posted by Vikingxl

Try driving the car without the wife/girlfriend I find that stops the droningnoise

Tut tut viking, some might say you've robbed somebody's sig!

Moby have you tried the rear bearings? the chassis/subframe on these cars are so taught it may be resonating from the rear (ooh err)

EDIT or perhaps the new bearings have failed/come loose in some way?

**Vikingxl** · Sunday 11th September 2011, 01:44

Llamas in hats ate my post

**Flatout Phil** · Saturday 27th August 2011, 19:49

Originally Posted by Vikingxl

Try driving the car without the wife/girlfriend I find that stops the droningnoise

Hey, that was my gag!!!

**nobananas** · Saturday 27th August 2011, 21:11

Check your tyres !. I don't mean a quick look have a really close examination of the tread especially the inner third or so. We are finding more and more wheelbearing symptoms (droning noise, changing tone going around corners etc) are actually turning out to be tyres going out of shape. What you need to do is run the flat of your hand over the tread back and forth then continue to do this as you move across the treads width towards the back. Despite the tread 'blocks' the tyres surface should feel quite smooth but if it's started to deteriorate it will feel rough and uneven and the blocks of the tread will be stepped, lifted and uneven. This seems to happen mostly on the inner edge of the tyre so often goes unnoticed and more commonly on back tyres but I have seen it happen on the front with tyres barely a year old !. And no it doesn't seem to matter what make they are either it affects both premium brands (Pirelli, Continental, Uniroyal, I've seen this on all of them) as well as budget brands so now the first thing we check when a vehicle comes in with a suspected noisy wheelbearing is the tyres and over half have a defective tyre causing the noise.

**MobyUK** · Sunday 28th August 2011, 10:46

Good point Martin. I'll investigate the rears. Doubt the fronts have given up yet as I've only done about 150 miles since they were fitted.

Interesting about the tyres nob. I'll look into that as well.

I assume from your replies that you don't think it's cv joints which is good. Thanks folks.