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My 2010 Mazda 3 Sport GS is making this terrible squealing metal-on-metal sound in the front driver side wheel well. I took a video. The brakes aren't being applied at all in the video, it's just rocking. It only does this when moving at low speed below 60kph, and it doesn't make any sound when stopped or revved. Steering makes no difference. I think it's been doing this for like a week, but I'm not the primary driver of the car these days so I'm not sure. I ask because it's a holiday and I have like 11 hours of driving to do today, what is the worst thing that this could be and how likely is it that I'll be stranded like 400 kilometers in? Thanks!
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Feb 16, 2015 16:28
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kastein posted:Jack it up and take the wheel off and inspect things (take pictures of whatever you find that is making the noise, post them here) before you drive anywhere, because that could either be a heatshield that doesn't matter or you about to buy a steering knuckle, alignment, balljoint(s), CV axle, wheel bearing, rotor, and pads instead of just a wheel bearing. The sound seems to be gone now and I can't see anything wrong, though. What could make it intermittent like that? It was doing it constantly for at least two days before.
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Feb 16, 2015 18:40
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How does someone become a better driver? I'm not really sure how I got here, but I've never hit anyone and I have a pretty good driving record. However, my wife basically drives our car into something once a month and it's becoming very expensive and I worry a lot that she's going to die or hurt someone with the car. She wants to improve and feels bad about her driving, but what do we even do? Do race schools help with regular road driving? At this point the $600+ price tag would almost be a worthwhile investment if it works.
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Jun 18, 2015 21:29
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Astonishing Wang posted:First thing to do: make sure she's not using her phone while driving. That's GOT to be the biggest problem on the road today. Even the Stig can't hit an apex if he's facebooking. Well, she's a grown woman and I'm pretty sure she's able to police her own phone use habits. But yeah, neither of us use our phones when driving except as GPSs. InitialDave posted:What IOC said, plus I always believe that increasing somone's understanding of how a car works, and what exactly you're asking it to do and what's involved, makes you a better driver. It's usually while parking. Running into the garage, curbs (loving constantly with the curbs), poles, other cars. She rear-ended someone last year and that was a pretty dear repair as well. It seems like it's a problem with knowing where the corners of the car are and this may be the car's fault because it has a relatively high beltline and she's very short. I was also thinking autocross might be a cheap way to improve this part of it.
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Jun 18, 2015 23:01
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