306 Drivers Size Squeak at 30mph up

Afternoon,

Subject says it all really. This morning I jacked up the passenger side
of my car to get a look at something, and later that morning I find what
I can only assume to be the drivers side front wheel is squeaking at
30mph upward. It doesn't seem to be affecting driving and with music on
I won't hear it, but I suppose there must be an explanation. Any ideas
or anywhere obvious I can spray WD40 or oil?

Cheers,
Tom.

 

What do you mean by squeaking? Is it constant? Only over bumps? When
you corner?

 

Its constant above that speed. No relationship to the engine that I can
find - any gear, no gear, clutch disengaged, its still there. Any
surface, bumps, no bumps, still there.

What kind of damage could I have done jacking up one side of the vehicle
though? I didn't even lift it as far as I would had I been changing a tyre.

I'll be doing my 45 mile commute in the morning and don't want to risk
making anything worse, but this really does just sound like a squeaky
wheel. Very similar to the noise a slipping belt makes too, but the fact
that the engine isn't making the noise probably rules that out?

What do you reckon?

Cheers,
Tom.

 

No difference cornering? You'd expect a difference if it was a
wheel bearing.

Any difference while braking?

John

 

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Well - what did you use as jacking points?

 

As far as i'm concerned I used the front left jacking point. I wanted to
lift the front of the vehicle but I have no idea where it would have
been safe to put the jack without potentially poking a hole in the
bottom of my car.

 

I didn't get a chance to test cornering at 30 as I was driving around
camera and lights ridden Leicester. I'll have to test that tommorrow.

No, only that it stops when the speed drops below 30.

 

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Sounds reasonable. In that case it shouldn't have been that.

 

So that rules out bushes then.

Possibly brake pads.

 

Does the tone change as speed increases?

I had a noise which started at about 35 mph, and it turned out
to be a piece of plastic trim that was loose, playing a note in
the wind. The tell-tale sign was the change of note (and onset
speed road speed) when a decent headwind was present.

John

 

Does the tone change as speed increases?

Doesn't seem to change, so i'm still stumped..

 

Out of curiousity, are there points at the front below the engine bay
that are "jackable"? I vividly remember somebody jacking up my old
Fiesta from front and centre before propping it on two Axel stands (also
can't work out where these best go - how do DIYers learn this stuff?)

 

Could you have inadvertently caught the mudflap and moved/loosened it. I
traced a noise on my 406 to that on a couple of occasions. It had a metal
reinforcing strip that got bent.

 

Tom Hawley () gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

Anything *solid*. Subframe mounting points, suspension mounting points,
that sort of thing. Not anything that looks like it's sheet steel.

 

As heading. Maybe it's the driver's size.

 

After some 20 posts in this thread it still took someone pointing it out
for me to notice. Everybody gains a little weight at Christmas