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A friend of mine has a 56 plate C220 CDi and there's an odd knocking coming from the front passenger wheel. He's been told by a garage that it's the wheel bearing, but it doesn't sound like any dying wheel bearing I've ever heard before.There's no droning noise at all, but as you pick up speed and get up to 60mph there's an odd knocking noise that you can feel through the steering very slightly. Up to about 70mph it gets a little louder and you can feel it a little more. I'm lead to believe the wheel bearings are adjustable on these things so I'll look at that for him anyway and see if it needs doing. It's almost as if the wheel nuts haven't been tightened properly, but naturally that's been checked. The sensation through the steering isn't quite like that of an unbalanced wheel, it's not as forceful, but it's sharper, as if someone were tapping at the steering arms with a hammer as opposed to a pushing/pulling feeling of a missing wheel weight.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
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Posted 28th Jul 2013 at 19:44
