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Hi
Can anyone give me any clues as to what the strange noise is.
Got my alloys taken off and the original steels put back on the other day and i noticed a really high pitched whining noise from time to time. It happens at various times, not just when cornering or changing gears. Thought it might be the wheel bearing but does it in a straight line as well as corners. Could the garage have upset something when they changed the wheels?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
Ned

I had a high pitched whining noise on my campers front near side for years. . . . . . divorce cured it !

tonyandjulie wrote:I had a high pitched whining noise on my campers front near side for years. . . . . . divorce cured it !

I got a van once the whining stopped!!!

maybe a stone caught in the disc area or after market pads fitted? sometimes these can squeal when driving along, a little copper grease on the back can help or chamfer the lead edge of the pad with a file.



just out of interest what wheels did you take of? and why?

I am running standard steels but really want some original carat alloys....

Thanks i'll have a look.
Had fuch replicas on, not my cup of tea. Powder coated the originals and put hub caps on. Looks tidy
Ned

nedkelly113 wrote:Thanks i'll have a look.
Had fuch replicas on, not my cup of tea. Powder coated the originals and put hub caps on. Looks tidy
Ned

Have you any pics of the Fuch's and the powder coated originals?? would love to see them.

nedkelly113 wrote:Hi
Can anyone give me any clues as to what the strange noise is.
Got my alloys taken off and the original steels put back on the other day and i noticed a really high pitched whining noise from time to time. It happens at various times, not just when cornering or changing gears. Thought it might be the wheel bearing but does it in a straight line as well as corners. Could the garage have upset something when they changed the wheels?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
Ned

Tracking?

jed

Hi i had the same symptoms when it went for MOT yesterday, squealing at speed on one side sometimes disappearing after dabbing brakes, it failed on 1 seized caliper, 50 quid to sort out MOT d and squealing gone RESULT !!

Thanks for the replies
I,ll give it a good going over this weekend.
I'll try and post some pics of the wheels tonight.

sorry cant upload photos, not sure what i'm doing wrong, keeps saying file is to big.

If you pm me your email address i'll send them that way.
Not much of a computer geek as you can see!!

Ned

Woohoo!!!
Cheers silverbullet
You learn something every day

I'm off to hack into the fbi computer now!!


Ned

ned, thanks for the e-mail.

the originals look fantastic... food for thought, my van is the same colour as yours and white would look good... but I am thinking going black would look good too ?

what size are the Fuchs?

Hi
Fuchs are 15x5.5. Got 185/65.15 tyres on.
Loads of stuff out there
Ned

Can be something inside the tyre.
Many years ago my brother had a high pitch whine (in his Austin 1300 - that gives an idea of how long ago!)and it turned out to be a bit of rubber that got into the tyre and was whizzing around and causing the whine as it run over the ribs of the inner part of the tyre construction. Only found out when the tyre had a puncture and this rounded lump fell out as the tyre was removed.

The whites look good, Im getting my spare set done to match body white. chrome caps look good mine are snaffed so will make do with satin black. think it looks better on the steelies myself
mike