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Hello, someone pulled out on me the other day and i had to break VERY HARD, snaking everywhere, had the backend right out at one point but i didnt hit anything

now

at speed 40+ theres a knocking noise comming from my car, and i can feel it on my arse and on the wheel

ive had a look at the break pads, has anyone else got any ideas? the knocking gets faster with speed

This post has been edited by DanTheMan: Nov 21, 2007 - 1:48 PM

Could it be your axles?

Because thats all i can think of knocking if its not your brakes.

bearings possibly...

can you really bend your axel from breaking like that?

also dont bearings make a squeeking noise?

in one of my old cars it was a pounding noise that you felt by your foot

No you won't nessecarily bend an axle. You can easily bust them up doing stuff like that. I didn;t see this pile of snow in the middle of the road (dark out) and my axle ripped out.

Try turning left and right while going slow what ever side you here knocking thats the one with a problem.

or break got warped :S or you ground it a little more on one side...

maybe you flat spotted your tires

and thats a perfect example of why you keep the celica's speedo in the double, not tripple digits* you may be able to handle a car at that speed, im learning to also on a closed track*
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BUT people who share the road with you are complete donkey arses most of the time!
Examples:
*itches putting on makeup wile driveing next to you and swirving in your lane
old f*cks in buicks that go 53 in the fast lane with a speedlimit of 70
sleepy truckers that dont stop to sleep, out of greed for more money
theres also cops that would love nothing more that to write you a $250+ ticket

tell me about it, im never speeding like that again

ive just come back from another run trying to find out what the problem is.

Its very hard to tell because my ride is so HARD that you feel any bump in the road

seems to only happen when doing more than 70, but i still cannot tell if its the road or my car normally!

i hope to god i have flatspotted my tires, and that it isnt a problem with the axel, im going to get it professionally look at tomorrow

raise your car and see if your axle is bent, you can more or less see... and then look at tires...

The axles don't have to be bent. to make clunks. It could be a cv joint. But if that needs replacing you might as well replace the entire axle.

Had the suspension and breaks checked, everything was fine.

Checked the tires and they where chewed to bits and flatspotted.

Job Jobbed, thanks guys.

This post has been edited by DanTheMan: Nov 22, 2007 - 1:09 PM

Flat spots FTL, new tires!

flat spotting is a good possibility

but FYI if the problem is coming from the REAR we DON'T have axles back there (you know FWD lol)

only have control arms in the back

he has a GT4 bruh. lol

If you locked the tires then you could have flat spotted them, but you could also have spun a tire on the rim, making it out of balance. If you find nothing visibly bent I would try rotoating tires and see if you can make the vibration change location.

ah ok wasn't listed in his profile?!
in that case he does have rear axles

Sorry to hear about that.
For future reference:
Here on 6gc driving at that rate of speed and not being
on a track of some sort is frowned upon.

Something I completly Ignore
And loving every second of it