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Old 10-21-2009, 09:31 AM
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Scraping Noise From Rear

I was just driving yesterday and was turning onto the highway - I did a 0-70 pull for fun. Broke it loose a bit - not much - I've done it hundreds of times.

Anyways - I hit 70 and let off and just put on cruise control.

I get back into town about 5 minutes laser and realize I'm hearing a scraping noise coming from my rear left wheel.

It gets louder as I accelerate - but doesn't stop when I brake.
When I first start driving - for the few couple minutes if I'm under around 10mph I won't hear anything - after a few minutes though I'll hear it at almost any speed.

I do have a popping noise already happening when I brake although I checked and my caliper is loose - and I just haven't bothered to take the wheel off yet to tighten it - could this also be causing it or perhaps I just need new pads?

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Old 10-21-2009, 02:09 PM
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Re: Scraping Noise From Rear

Anyone? I'm a bit desperate to fix this as the car is currently for sale and the noise is loud and very obnoxious.
Old 10-21-2009, 02:14 PM
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Re: Scraping Noise From Rear

well you deffinatly need to tighten that caliper first. once you do that, and have the wheel off, im sure you can see something obvious and out of the ordinary. if you have rear disk, sounds like maby since the caliper is loose, the pad fell out or fell down and is riding on the rotor's hub flange. idk, just a suggestion. i saw an s10 do that.
Old 10-21-2009, 02:42 PM
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Re: Scraping Noise From Rear

alrighty - thanks for the response!
I may do it tonight.
I'm sick atm so I'm kinda trying to force myself to go do it.
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