Posted By: bordin34
Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/26/09 11:30 PM
I was driving my car in the rain today and noticed that sometimes when I turned left, there was a thump sound kind of like a dent popping but a lower pitch. There are no differences in handling when it happens only the sound. The car tracks nice and straight. Any Ideas?
Posted By: DennisH
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/26/09 11:38 PM
Rythmic? Relative to speed. Can it be done in a parking lot. Is it possible to make 3 rights to eliminate the problem?
Posted By: RapidRobert
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/26/09 11:45 PM
must be all the smog out there on the left coast
Posted By: bordin34
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/26/09 11:48 PM
The wheel bearings are new, wipers were off, and the tires and wheels aren't new.
Posted By: bordin34
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 12:06 AM
It's an open rear a ball joint sounds possible, but wouldn't I feel it in the wheel?
Posted By: 268RTs4ME
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 01:57 AM
First I would check my upper control arms, make sure nothing loose and take a look at control arm bushings.
Posted By: Stanton
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 03:05 AM
Sounds like a dead critter to me !!!
Posted By: Neil
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 04:04 AM
New wheel bearings adjusted correctly? They will go up in smoke very quickly if not.
Wheel weights on the backside of the wheel hitting when the wheel is turned?
Posted By: dOc !
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 04:08 AM
I had a similar noise in an 77 Dodge dually. It wound up being worn-out sway bar bushings.
Posted By: AndyF
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 05:35 AM
Could be a bad tire. My car did that when a belt broke inside the tire. Could only hear it at low speeds turning one direction.
Posted By: Hotwheelsjr
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 10:54 AM
PM 71autoxr (Rick) -- he just had a similar problem with his Challenger -- he fixed it this past weekend, but I can't recall what he said it was.
Posted By: STREETSHAKER
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 03:07 PM
I had a wheel weight barely scraping something only in turns.
Posted By: Dart 340
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 03:13 PM
This is going to sound weird but I had a similar
thing on my Dart only turning one way. It ended
up being the one muffler moving enough to hit
the square part of my driveshaft where it bolts
up to the U joints. Scratched my head over that
one for a long time.
Posted By: Mr.Yuck
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 05:01 PM
I had a wheel weight do that. I had just got new tires and I thought they screwed something up everytime I took a hard left I'd hear thum thump thump... I got home jacked up the car and when I laid the wheel on the ground face down I could see where the wheel weight was hitting. I beat on it to flatten it and it was fine after that.
Posted By: bordin34
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 09:08 PM
I found the problem! It was a can rolling around in the trunk.
Posted By: bordin34
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/27/09 10:28 PM
Yup, only on left turns because a cardboard box was blocking it.
Posted By: dodger1
Re: Thumping Noise While Turning Left - 03/28/09 12:43 AM
If your runnin shine its best to strap it down!LOL
