Click, Click, Click when we turn

[BlueDogDemocrat]

Aight, I admit. I can drive a car, change the oil and air filters, but that is about it. I don't know much about em, I have to admit.

When my wife turns the wheel of her old car, something is clicking down towards the wheels. What is it? Am a screwing her car up by ignoring it? The car is quickly becoming a POS, so I'm sure it's just wear and tear from a 8 year old car with 140k miles. Franky, I wish it would die so she would drive the new car that is collecting dust in the carport. Suggestions?

[Conveyor Belt]

My limited experience of listening to talk radio shows says that's a bad CV axel. I think Speedy does them for under $300.

[Augustus McRae]

Aight, I admit. I can drive a car, change the oil and air filters, but that is about it. I don't know much about em, I have to admit.

When my wife turns the wheel of her old car, something is clicking down towards the wheels. What is it? Am a screwing her car up by ignoring it? The car is quickly becoming a POS, so I'm sure it's just wear and tear from a 8 year old car with 140k miles. Franky, I wish it would die so she would drive the new car that is collecting dust in the carport. Suggestions?


From one great mechanical mind to another: turn the radio up a little louder....

[Honey]

It looks like you went to the same automotive school as me. Radio louder problem solved.

[Augustus McRae]

It looks like you went to the same automotive school as me. Radio louder problem solved.


"Click and Clack" 9:00 A.M. PRM

[BlueDogDemocrat]

yeah, i enjoy listening to car talk on PRM..those guys give me a good laugh.

[fuzzis]

I'd go with CB's suggestion of the CV joints. I want to say that the last time I had to have that done (to an 87 Honda Accord), it was about $150. :confused: But that would have been about 5 years ago.

[Guru]

Have your breaks checked.

[IGID]

CV joint.

[threekidspa]

Its your turn signal

[amanda]

I'll likewise say a CV joint.

[TheKing]

they got it nailed...its probably the CV joint

its a relatively cheap fix

[Hob684]

BDD i don't know how old ya'll are but seriously make sure its not the turn signal.

and ya.. CV joint. you might can get away with just fixin one. its probably not likely that BOTH went out at the same time.

[58ford]

It's your CV joint. Have it fixed soon or you're going to screw up your transaxle, A CV joint's gonna run you a couple to a few hundred dollars a transaxle could get up over a couple of thousand depending on what kind of car it is. so, either fix it now, or keep it off the road til you can.

[Pirate_129]

Seriously, stop and remove the midget from around the axle. I would guess it's his teeth hitting the firewall that's causing the clicking. :smt103

[Hob684]

"Mechanics are always trying to screw you. I went to have my car's oil changed and when I came to pick it up, the mechanic was like: Yeah. We had to replace the roof on your car because it was peeling off. It was ashamed of the rest of the car and was trying to get away. Oh and we also found a tiny unicorn in your muffler. It was jumping around and poking holes in the exhaust. He was also shitting in your filters.


Oh great. That's amazing, a tiny mythological creature in my muffler. Shitting in my filters? That bastard. $7,000? That's about what I expected to pay for those services. Thank you so much."

i'm trying to find a video or audio clip of this... much funnier when he says it.

[endofthetrail]

You might want to check the wheels. I had a clicking around the wheels one time and it was loose lug nuts.

[pooker]

If its not your cv joint I have also taken some down as simply as the actual axle nut not being tight. Alot of shops will just leave the cotter pin out when doing these jobs.

Oh and by the way, I can do your cv joint, change axles whatever you need. I do a alot of work for friends and normally my going rate is half of what a big shop charges. Unless its something big or small that requires alot of money from me to buy the parts but I always guarantee I am cheaper than the shop. Just thought I would throw that out there.

[proudtobefrompetal]

I had a Honda Accord that made the same noise and it was the CV joint. The mechanic told me if I had waited much longer my axle would have fallen out from under my car. Now, I don't know how true that is... but I know he charged me around $300 and that was probably 5 or more years ago. I was probably ripped off.

[pooker]

Yes that is very high priced , I don't know if he provided the part. But the thing about cv joints is , even if it is bad most people don't rebuilt or replace that certain part. Axles are so cheap they just buy the whole assembly and turn in the old one for a core charge.

My axle with core exchange when I had a bad cv joint, was 50 dollars. It took me less than an hour to change it on my car because I am so accustomed to it.

What you can do to make , well almost 100 percent sure that is your problem which I almost guarantee it is . Would be look under your car where your axles are, you will see rubber boots, most likely one of them is torn (unless yours just wore out) and there will be grease everywhere around it. If you see that you now the culprit for your cv joint going bad.

[amanda]

Hey, BBD, that wasn't you on the side of Hwy 98 with the car on fire this morning, was it? heheheheheh.....someone had a really bad start to the day. :)

[bpitt]

If it's front wheel drive, it's probably the cv joints/axle. If it's rear wheel drive, could just be bad ball joints in the front. Just my 2 cents.

[dollfus46]

Aight, I admit. I can drive a car, change the oil and air filters, but that is about it. I don't know much about em, I have to admit.

When my wife turns the wheel of her old car, something is clicking down towards the wheels. What is it? Am a screwing her car up by ignoring it? The car is quickly becoming a POS, so I'm sure it's just wear and tear from a 8 year old car with 140k miles. Franky, I wish it would die so she would drive the new car that is collecting dust in the carport. Suggestions?

Yeppo. That's your CV Joint. It's protected by a leather bag type thingy. The bag gets torn and road dirt gets into the joint and you have to replace it. Must be a honda.

[carsalesguy]

hondas are not the only ones that go out

honda's are just known for bad cv joints cuz people put non oem parts under the car, and the idiots at auto zone or wherever don't use a quality product boot and grease in the joints

i do cv joints in 10 minutes-

if it is a honda, BTW- make sure you take it at least to someone who knows what they are doing. when you change the cv joints, you MUST add automatic tranny fluid if it is an auto and 10w30 motor oil if it is a manual.

the reason i say someone who knows what they are doing is because you MUST use honda OEM tranny fluid and power steering fluid or your going to seriously mess something up.

also, never get a tranny flush in a honda. HONDA recommends just to drain 3 quarts of fluid out and refill with 3. the plug in the tranny case has a magnet on the end and will collect a lot of that crap floating in there if it is metal. don't ever fall for a "tranny flush" and power steering flush with a honda or a newer nissan (with the CVT transmission.)

the nissan is now requiring OEM fluid for the XTronic CVT found in the '03 + murano, and 07+ versa, sentra, altima, maxima, and rogue.

[bpitt]

Ditto on what carsalesguy says about the grease, it has to be there and needs to be good stuff, or the new stuff won't last, been there, done that on bro-in-laws old Eclipse......