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Growling, metal-rubbing noise on left-hand corners.
Topic Started: Jul 14 2012, 07:57 PM (644 Views)
GeoJeb
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Seemingly from the right rear of the car.
I had installed new wheel bearings on the right rear
wheel only a year ago. I read several wheel bearing
threads on here, including one post where the Metro
owner at first suspected the exhaust rubbing. But I believe
he later confirmed it was indeed the wheel bearings.
I did check my exhaust and it seemed fine, hardly
wiggled, all rubber donut mounts in place on the muffler.

So I changed my wheel bearings on my right rear wheel
today. The old ones seemed okay. But I changed them
anyway. The test drive resulted in the same noise. So
I crawled back under the car and pushed hard with a
hammer on the exhaust closer to the midpoint of the car.
This time I noticed it indeed contacted the A-arm (???) thing
on the rear wheel. I safety-wired a thick piece of rubber between
the two and took another test drive. Noise all gone.

So it isn't ALWAYS the rear wheel bearing.
I hope this helps someone avoid my mistake.
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idmetro
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The bright side is that you have new wheel bearings in the right rear and they should give you many miles of service!
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georandy
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Hmm, maybe that's what I hear. Thanks for the post.
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