shit, mine sounds very similar to this but appointment to get fixed is only in 2 weeks and i need to commute 1hr each way to work...

@@0110x okay Karen I understand please check to see if you feel vibration when you're driving if it's noise without a lot of vibration if it's a whirring sound but not a lot of vibration sound then it's probably not too bad yet. But if you're feeling vibration and it's kind of a vibration coming up to the car this is a bad indication. And the biggest indication would be if it is actually getting hot the wheel is getting hot to the touch and maybe like you're going to be able to cook on it if it was that kind of hot this is really not good. I was a car dealer before and I've had many cars has bad bearings. The Jaguar that you see in the video when I took the bearings off they were making a lot of noise no vibration and only a little bit of heat. But when I took the bearings off they were completely fine I mean they were making a slight noise and obviously they were not perfect but they were not going to fall apart in any week or two weeks it would have been 3 months. But I have seen cars when the bearings are right ready to let go the wheel actually gets smoking hot. And you can even smell something. If that's happening and you're feeling a lot of vibration to the wheel or through your seat then I would not continue to drive the car. Even renting a car would be a better option

@@edgarordorica7919 this is a little bit worrying. I have a feeling that one of the bearings has collapsed and it's scraping on the bearing race. It may be something else is squeaking like shocks. The way to answer all these questions is to do the heat test because if it is the bearing that squeaking it's going to be getting extremely hot. In that case no I would not drive a car anymore at all. It could come apart on you if it's getting that hot and squeaking. If it comes apart it'll lock up the wheel. Please do the heat test after you've driven it for 15 minutes but be careful you could burn yourself if it's really really hot. that will let you know what's going on here. Please post us back and let us know

@@QOSQualityofSpeed could i ask you, which part of the tire should i be feeling for heat? Thanks take care

@@boxybrown4278 sure, Glad to help, actually the tire which is the rubber around the wheel you don't need to feel that for heat at all. You want to feel the wheel which is the metal part in the center that the rubber is wrapped around. That's called the wheel of the car. You might also hear it called the rim. You want to feel in the center of the rim. Right around where the lug nuts are these are the bolts that hold the wheel to the car they're large. Put your hand directly on these bolts and also in the center of them. If you have a lot of heat here that is a sign that the bearings are going bad. The more heat the worse that they are. If you really feel that you're beings are bad be careful when you put your hand here because it can be hot I mean extremely hot. But that is unusual it's only an extremely bad bearings and you've been driving them way past when they should be.

Thank you for the compliment on the video. Yes I am really trying to help people understand which bearing is bad and the special way that car dealers learn to do understand this. I was a car dealer. Your car could possibly have 3 reasons that the sound could be coming. One could easily be the differential bearings there are 2 bearings in the differential on Either side and there is also 1 bearing coming from the drive shaft So there should be 3 bearings in the differential. In some trucks there is also a Carrier bearing on the drive shaft about halfway through. This would make a sound underneath the car in the middle. That being said it's kind of difficult sometimes to hear where it's coming from as you're driving. the clunck that you hear when you put it in gear I'm very sure that that is a bad universal joint on the drive shaft. These are not hard to change look at both of them to make sure that both are in good condition if you twist it back-and-forth if there's a lot of play before it starts to rotate it's to rotate it means that It's a little joint inside there are starting to wear down.. This also can create a sound as you drive but usually it's a clunk when you shift it back-and-forth. Of course it can be one of your wheel bearings and because you hear it mostly in the back I'm gonna guess it's 1 of the rear wheelbarings. However they usually go out on both sides of the car at the same time so both real or both front. The reason for this is because they have similar wear and the seals that seal out the water are of the same age. Is once one seal starts to leak the other 1 is also gonna be leaking. Is then the bearings inside begin to rust and become slightly not round. Please keep us up-to-date from what happens it's happens when you look at the bearings when you go to work write us write everyone here and tell us which bearing you found was bad. And if it does turn out to be a Carrier bearing or a bearing the differential let us know that too. I'm happy to help with any questions that you have

I'm very glad to help. this is not a very difficult job. You could even get a traveling mechanic that you could find on Craigslist to do this. It's not something they could mess up easily I think. Any reasonably competent mechanic take care of it and it shouldn't cost you more than 100 USD per side. But you have a lot of time I think if it just started to make the whirring sound. Now it also could be brakes but that is a different sound it's like a scraping sound a grinding when your pads wear out. if it's brake pads the grinding will become actually metal-to-metal and it will be pretty unbearable. So that should be addressed very quickly. but if it's bearings just remember you have a lot of time.

Please let us know what happened. If you were able to find out which bearing it was everybody would like to hear about that. I hope you were able to do it for like $160 per side. This should be $100 labor and $60 for the part.

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you are welcome I'm really glad that it's informative. I know that it's a question that I had before myself))

wow I'm really glad that it helps. Yeah if it just started making noise no way at all that it will come off. When you take the hubs off take a look at the bearings inside I bet they're going to be absolutely intact perfectly in place. They're just slightly out of rounds I mean like micrometers slightly out of round. To be honest you probably could drive like that for 6 months. I wouldn't go taking a long cross-country Highway trip. But back and forth around town no problem at all. Once it gets really really bad and the noise is more like a grinding noise and it's producing a lot of heat this is when the wheels about ready to come off. I actually had a car like that once when I was a car dealer that I was trying to get back to the dealership and yes it was bad. You could even smell the very hot metal of the wheel. It didn't do anything to the tire it didn't do anything to anything really except for it as soon as I jack the car up the wheel fell off in my hands. So that's when the bearings are absolutely destroyed inside. But when you first get a little bit of whirring sound it's not as bad as you're imagining in your head.:-)

Thank you....yes I did it to help people and because I was curious. We need more information on the internet.

@@QOSQualityofSpeed the internet is full of superficial regurgitating of exaggerations and false knowledge. More people like you and i need to take the flak that comes with dropping real facts on people for people's sake instead of being the town crier telling people that "you are fucked, do as i say or you will die" because some other dickhead on the internet told them that.

Yeah I totally agree with you. I think it's important that we believe what we see with our eyes. And be willing to tell about it if it's important.

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I'm very glad that it helped. I'm very glad that you figured out which one is bad. Thank you for your comment I appreciate knowing when anybody benefits from the video

Sure I'm really glad to help. If there is noise this can help determine what's making the noise.

Very glad that it helps you. And you gave me a new idea for a video. Why do bearings go bad on cars more rapidly sometimes. So I will make this video and it will answer the question as to why the bearing went bad so quickly. You know to be honest if the one side is making noise and the other side is nice and there is no play then I don't see any real problem and you just having one side done. Another thing that will help you decide is if you put your car in first gear does it move from a dead stop easily. Basically it should Coast forward very easily if it's a automatic transmission. If it's a manual it should be easy to push by hand and very easy to start in first gear. If the bearings are going bad in the car it will cause resistance in rolling.

LAFOLLETTER thank you yes I saw this video I watch him too. Any car guy watches Scotty

Just make sure it's not getting really warm. If you're feeling play a slight bit of play but it still rolling OK and not getting really hot you've got time. If you ever stop and park the car and it's very hot even steaming or smelling you could smell it yeah your wheels about ready to fall off but I think you're not anywhere near that situation. Probably if you took it apart now the bearings would still be in place and everything would be 100% it's just ever so slightly not round.

Thank you, I was freaking out..my bearing and vibration was freaking me out

Really glad it helped you. Check out my video on self rescue when you run out of gas, it can also be very useful

@Dañe Highfield hey Dane when you change it do everyone a favor and have them give you back the old bearings and just take a look at them maybe even take a video of them but let us know here in the comments what you find you know do you see any metal shavings or is it pretty much like what I showed where the bearing was completely fine intact it just making a slight whirring noise. I'm going to bet that you're going to find that that it's 100% intact no problem at all but it's just running out of lubricant in the bearings are slightly not round. Also it could have rust inside which is what usually kills bearings. I did a video recently about how bearings are destroyed sooner than normal. A big one is water and dirt.

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Thank you...I'm glad it helps

Well if you make enough of a stink then it could work. What do I mean you need to hit the right person or you need to have the right exposure to their help Department. This could be something like one of these 5onyourside TV shows or the right newspaper saying how they're ripping people off. Ford would not want that exposure so they would probably take care of it then. If you get a sympathetic ear there at Ford it could work. If you don't get a sympathetic ear you need to force it with force and that would mean you have to start exposing them. I do believe it is worth a try. Send a letter first and then if that doesn't work tell them that you're going to get the Press involved and show them their corruption. If that doesn't work then you really do need to get the Press involved.

Keith I'm very glad that it helped. Yes as long as it's not getting hot well let me say very hot a little warm is okay then you got plenty of time. As you can see in the video Even though mine were making a substantial amount of noise and they were getting warm to the touch when I took them apart it was nothing missing at all all bearings were in place and they were still functioning as a bearing. so you have time

I'm very glad it helped. Remember how hot it gets is actually proportional to how damaged it is and how much of an emergency it is to change it. If it's getting extremely hot then I wouldn't drive the car much

Keith Warbington i'm very glad that it helped

How long did you go?

About 2 months but as you can see in the video the bearings were nowhere near ready to fall to pieces. It could've been another couple months at least. But the sound was annoying so I replace them. They were only getting slightly warm when I drove the car and checked them. One side was a little bit worse than the other. But I did both front. Later I had the rear end rebuilt in both rears were done also

Really glad I could help that's why I made the video. If you have any other specific questions about cars let me know.

I'm very glad this helped. Yes for sure you are fine to drive. It will make a lot of noise but unless you see smoke when you stop the wheels will stay on))

I am Glad it helps

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Sure I'm glad to help. You have any other questions let me know. Any other questions about cars and selling cars I used to be a car dealer.

This bearing is dangerous. It is bad enough that it could actually come apart. So I wouldn't drive the car anymore until you replace that bearing. I'm happy that it helps you figure it out and if you have any other questions please let me know

Sounds like it could be brakes, when they heat up and expand a bit they can start to scrape, likewise the brake fluid itself can expand and cause clearances to become too tight, check it’s below the ‘max’ line. And if the brakes are old, maybe try replacing the pads. Unless you’re sure it’s the wheel bearings.

Check how much heat it's producing you don't want to drive it if it's really starting to get very hot because the wheel could fall off. But I'm thinking maybe it's not quite that bad yet. It can make a lot of noise and not actually be falling apart

@@QOSQualityofSpeed my dual exhaust ends about 3in behind the muffler.very loud and my ears are shot from jet engines 30-06 Ted Nugent and rivet guns.I still can hear it.The brake drum was so rusted to the hub I took at least an hour to get it off.Stock stereo except for the speakers I salvaged from old cars.Quieter exhaust or Louder Sound system?spark plugs are rusted and still get 18mpg hwy 4x4.Starts almost before you can let the key go.I drive it all over get parts when I can

@@allanbrogdon5317 really cool Allan I like old cars also. Let me know and tell everyone here what happens when you finally do get around to replacing the bearing. Let us know the condition. I would jack up the rear wheel and wiggle those tires and see if there's a tremendous amount of flay that's also a danger sign

Hey I'm super glad it helped I know this is a problem that a lot of people have it when you look on the internet nobody's really telling you how to tell which bearing well easily and also how long could you drive the damn car. But as you can see the bearings were worrying but there was no real bearings falling out of the race or anything like that.

I am super glad that it helps Yes you be able to tell which bearing by the heat

I am glad that it helps

I'm very glad it helped. If you have any other questions, I will be happy to help.

I have seen that before actually. Is the wheel slightly difficult to turn when you jack up the car does it take a lot of effort more for that should for you to spinet? This means the hub assembly the bearing inside is definitely bad. The way to tell for sure is drive it a little bit like maybe 15 minutes get out and check the heat. If it’s warm or even hot in the center, that’s not due to brakes. The brakes are more of a radiating heat on the outside closer to the tire itself. If you’re getting heat in the middle like around where the center cap is on the wheel or the Lugnuts, this is heat from the bearing. If this is bad, then the wheel bearing is definitely in trouble inside. Most cars today have a sealed unit so you can’t replace the bearings you gotta replace the whole hub

I've been inspecting it every 2,000 miles shaking it back and forth looking for movement in the wheel. There was almost no movement in the wheel until this point. Now there's a good deal of movement back and forth in the wheel and definitely needs to be replaced. Also on top of that the abs warning light just came on and it's been making significantly less noise. It was really noisy not too long ago. So I'm going to be bringing it to a shop within this week after driving more than 31,000 miles since it started making noise

I'm glad it helped really. If it just started it's probably not getting very warm when you touch it yes? Then you got plenty of time you'll be all right for two weeks I wouldn't go driving it from New York State down to Florida let's say

I haven't done the heat test yet but will tonight because I'm also not positive which one it is. Thinking it's the front passenger but we'll see. Honestly wish I had the tools to replace it myself. Just knowing it's not a terrible thing to keep driving on it a bit until then makes me feel better though.

Yes you know it's really hard to tell which side is making the noise. And it can be both. But you can usually hear front or back. And I don't know whether you saw the story but I did drive one of the cars I bought as a car dealer back with extremely bad bearing it was so bad that it was actually smoking haha it was crazy. So if it's that bad then I would be worried but unless it's that bad it's really nowhere near falling off the car

Yes Bob that's definitely that bearing is going bad because when you turn your putting more stress on the inner or outer bearing race. So that's the another indication that that bearing is going bad besides the whirring sound. I'm a little worried because you can actually feel resistance on that side from what you're describing. So let us all know how hot it's getting when you drive for say 15 minutes at 40 miles an hour. If you see smoke this means the bearing is really starting to get close to falling off. But if it's warm to the touch or even hot to the bare hand but not actually smoking in my experience you've got a little bit more time. Not much though. Yes the whirring noise will drive you crazy long before the wheel falls off. I told you the one that I actually drove from a car that I bought as a car dealer was really smoking and you could definitely see that it was really hot, cooking hot, and when I finally got it back to the shop and took the bearing off yes you could see that it was very close to falling off.

I am glad it helps

I'm really glad that it helped honestly

Gerardo you should have no problem with a few weeks. It will make a lot of noise but will not come apart on you.

@@QOSQualityofSpeed Thanks again.

Check the heat If really hot don't wait

@@QOSQualityofSpeed I checked it the other day after driving for a long time (uber) and I thought it was coming from the left but the right side was warm like it had been sitting in direct sunlight. Haven't driven much since.

@lando8702 ok you have time)

@@QOSQualityofSpeed Thanks for the replies and video, appreciate it.

I'm really glad it helped. If you have any questions let me know

I'm really glad it helped. If you have any other questions please let me know. Either about bearings are other car craziness

I'm really very glad that it helped. If you don't have a lot of heat or a deep grinding sound like metal grinding you got a little bit of time where you can drive it.

Do you recommend that I drive it for about an hour??@@QOSQualityofSpeed

@@renostubbs8504 well I would like to know if it's making a whirring noise or a growling noise like metal against metal being chewed up? And also is it producing a significant amount of heat in the hub in the wheel right in the center? If the answer to these two questions is no then sure you can easily drive it another hour maybe even another month. But if it's grinding or producing heat or God forbid smoking as you drive it and even you can smell it that means it's just about ready to fall off. But if it's just whirring that goes up and down as you go faster and slower then you've got a long time. It's not going to come off and you can see in my video that the bearings and races were still intact but it made a lot of noise as I got to road speed say 40 mph it was definitely whirring.

make sure to check how much heat it's putting out. Drive the car and then immediately jump out and check it. If it's hot but not scorching hot then you have time. I've actually seen a bearing get smoking hot and then that means that it was about ready to actually break apart. It's not going to fall apart until it really really gets very hot.

So did you make the trip?

@@supras7 Yeah, it all went smoothly.

Zack great ....yes still making noise but still driving right?

@@worleyzack I'm curious as well , my echo started making growling noise at 40mph but there isn't any play when car is jacked up . I've determined is the wheel bearing as I rock the car it makes a noise and goes away when driving

Yes more than likely if one side is going bad the same thing is happening to the other. But you have more time. It's gonna make a lot of noise but it's not coming off

Paul O I'm really glad it helped. If you have any other questions please let me know.

I know the Nissan Micra)) Nice. You can do itself for a lot less than that. Just get a friend and some jacks and a Jack stand. I use the things to hold the car up for safety. Anyway I think you could find a traveling Mechanic to do it for 300 dollars or a cheaper shop. The part should be cheap about 90 dollar. But part availability can make it cost more these days. Everything is crazy now.

@@QOSQualityofSpeed Good to know. Thank you.

I'm really glad that it helps. If you need any help let me know if there's anything you run into I'm here I will answer questions. If you're going to do it yourself you will probably need some rather larger tools. Okay so probably a quarter inch Drive maybe even a half-inch drive and a big pipe that you can put on the end or a real breaker bar. Some of those nuts that hold things on in the suspension are kind of tough. But if you have the right tools it shouldn't take you too long to replace the hub assembly. All modern cars are hub assembly so you just basically take it off put the other one on.

I'm glad. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask

Glad I can help. Really I made the video to help. If there's any other questions you have about cars I will do my best to try to help

yes you are right. The Turning causes a twerking with the bearing and a bearing has an inner and outer bearing and so what's happening is it's probably one of these that usually goes worse than the other so they're two bearings on a hub. And when you turn your putting more pressure on one side of the bearing. Wish then exaggerate the sound. yes it puts more pressure on the opposite wheel when you turn. But it also puts a torquing on the Wheel.

Yes if the bearing is getting warm then that's going to be the one that is bad. On Modern bearings you won't notice any play back and forth if you try to wiggle the wheel no. But you will notice Heat by the lug nuts and it could be a little stiff to roll it doesn't roll smoothly.

that sounds like a CVC joint on the drive shaft or half axle shaft on the rear of your car. It probably has an independent suspension so that they use these constant viscosity joints so that the wheel can continue to move up and down. If the boot is torn or it has worn and water got in there they will start to deteriorate and then when you shift into reverse at our back into drive it will take up the space inside the joint and that's the clunk. Same thing can be happening with your drive shaft universal joints

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Rajinder Singh yes I hit like that can damage the bearings. Either way it's not very expensive they have to replace. But you should check to see if nothing else is bent

Hey thanks

What about a car with a 4 wheel drive how do u do that

@@Al-qy6tc well they still have bearings in the wheels and they still can produce heat. If the bearing is bad there is going to be Heat. This is your sure indication. Yes I know what you mean about the sound it can start to make a whirring sound at say 30 miles an hour and then it will increase as you go faster but there could come a time where the engine of the noise or transmission is kind of mirroring that sound in canceling it. But the Surefire way to tell which bearing is bad and how bad it is is by touching it after you've driven a little bit. Look to see if it's smoking first if it's smoking obviously don't touch it. if it's making a noise it's going to start making Heat

its only just started to get warm, and mechanics arent free for the next 2 weeks. but i will apply your method aswell.

Check your inside brake pad. You may have that one completely worn out and it's metal to metal contact. The reason you don't see it is because the front brake pad is still okay and so you don't see it grinding up the rotor. But when you take the wheel off and look behind yeah it's actually metal to metal back there. And while you're under there spin The hub and see how it feels if it's stiff it doesn't spin easily the bearings are probably bad it doesn't necessarily have to have play for the bearings to be bad and they will make noise as you roll them at road speed. Make sure when you jack up your car and you're going to put your head underneath there and look at the brake pad and brake rotor that you have multiple jacks and jack stand to hold the car before you put your head underneath there.

I'm very glad that it helped. If you have any specific questions please ask me I will answer

Oh yes as it gets worse and worse the noise kind of grates on you and even turning up the stereo can't fix it :-) but after I replaced all four bearings in my car it is very smooth also. I also noticed something else it rolls forward in drive with the foot off the brake much quicker and easier. This means it would be faster off of the line in a drag race. Imagine how much horsepower is lost due to the drag of bad wheel bearings

Yes if you say it goes away when turning right that is probably the inner bearing of the Hub. I believe on the golf it is a complete hub assembly inner and outer where you can't replace it yourself but yes that makes sense that if you're turning you're stressing one side of the bearing. It's probably your front passenger side. The right side of the car. Oftentimes both front bearings go bad at the same time due to the fact that they're on the car similar length of time so one might be slightly worse than the other but both need replacing. If it's a whirring sound very loudly and you drive it for 10 minutes at 60 miles an hour then pull over one of your wheels should be warmer in the center. That would be the way that you would tell which bearing is worse. I'm glad to help if you have any other questions let me know. It would be very nice if you would post a result and let us know what happened when you replace the bearings or when you do the heat test to find out which one is bad. I'm sure one of your front wheel bearings is in pretty bad shape due to the fact that it changes sound you said when you turn right.

I'm really glad that it helps. Yes absolutely it will narrow down which bearing is bad for you

Please let us all know what you find out and which wheel it is.

Hello I think I would jack up the car and spin the wheels and see what you hear. bearings are not going to give you any problem that would make the car run smooth. So what I believe it is it's either the wheels have uneven wear which can happen or you have a titty on a tire this is a bulge on the tire tread. Careful when you feel for this cuz you can cut your hands badly move slowly over the tread really slowly. Suspension parts can also cause a creaking. And I am also concerned and wondering about the condition of your brake pads and Brake discs. If they are worn down this could also cause sound and maybe some rubbing vibration and sound. In short it's not your wheel bearings because they don't affect the driving quality it's a sound that happens. If you want to ask any more questions I'm willing to answer

I am very glad it helped

@@QOSQualityofSpeed Yes, indeed. Thanks again.. 😁

Very glad to help. If you have any other questions let me know please

There are really two sounds you can get out of the wheels dot-dot. One is a whirring kind of like something spinning. The other is a grinding which is because of the brake pads are worn down to zero and you've got metal-to-metal contact. You can look through the wheel and see the brake disc and see if you see ground up metal or is it smooth and Polished. That's more of a grinding metal sound. The whirring sound sounds like something spinning

sure really I'm glad it helps

If you drove down the road for 15 minutes without stopping and standing at a stoplight and then pulled off or you had just taken a drive to the grocery store and back half an hour yeah your ribs would be really good and warm if a bearing was bad. I'm very glad the video helps. If it's extremely bad bearing then it can even get to the point where it's smoking. I saw this once when I was a car dealer. I pulled off after driving it down the road and it was literally smoking. So if you can just get on a stretch of road where you can drive for 15 minutes without stopping that's enough

I'm really glad it helps. If you have any questions let me know.

Thank you glad it helps

You are fine if no heat

Sure glad to help. Look if it's only been about a month and you're not really hearing grinding not whirring sound but grinding sound then you probably have some time. It will get very hot and even start to smoke and you could even smell it even before the wheel falls off. I would never let it get to that point. But one month is not a big deal.

@@QOSQualityofSpeed i am not hearing grinding. When I first explained the sound to my boyfriend who is a mechanic, I said it sounded like a whirring noise or like air coming from the back. Kinda like airplane which gets louder as I accelerate and lower as I slow down.

@@Jojo-lf3dy yes it is a bearing.

You usually can tell front from back. If your hear it coming from the front it is going to be one of the front bearings but it's very difficult to tell from side to side. It's the way that the noise echoes in the car metal. You may also find that both front bearings are somewhat bad. The reason is that they're manufactured the same time and put on at the same time and then the seals usually go bad at the same time it starts to let him a little minut amount of water. This starts to rust the little ball bearings inside and they become not round. In the video you can see that the bearings are still in place so as long as you're not getting extreme amount of heat the car is still okay to drive for a little bit. When the bearing gets really hot then it's dangerous because it could possibly come off but pay attention to how much heat it is generating when you get out of the car after driving. Also if the sound changes that's a concern and means it's getting worse. Yes the answer to your question is yes you do have bearings in the back you also have bearings on each side of your differential as well so there's a total of 5 bearings back there. You have to in the wheels and three in the differential. I'm not sure on that truck but you could have a center bearing call the carrier bearing that also helps hold up the driveshaft. I have seen one of those go bad before and had to replace it. But if you're hearing are coming from the front of your car it's probably one of your front hub bearings. Do the heat test let us know how hot it's getting.

Yes it does sound like it could be a bearing. Bearing noise can go up and down depending on the speed. If it's a very bad bearing you might feel something in the wheel even a little bit not when braking but just when driving normally. If you feel it when braking that's a different issue. That would be your brake disc. I am concerned that if it's bad enough you're feeling of vibration that means the bearing is in pretty bad shape. I suggest please that you do my test that I have shown in the video where you drive for a very short distance park it get out and feel if it's hot. Remember it can be extremely hot and burn you so be careful of that. If it's very hot that I would stop driving that car right away

Another possibility would be for you to record the sound and post a video. If I could hear the sound I would be able to tell you for sure. But also do the heat test this is the single most valuable way to be able to understand which bearing is bad

You're very welcome I am doing this because I would like to share knowledge like this that can help people

Hey I'm really glad that you like it

You might need a breaker bar or at least an extension and a pretty hefty socket wrench like a half inch socket drive. 3/4 in might work but if you have a lot of trouble and have to use like a pipe or some sort of extension or maybe an box end wrench over top of the end of your socket wrench to get the leverage. These are all the type of tricks you can use. It may surprise you it may come off make sure that you jack up your car extremely carefully with multiple jacks and jack stands I usually use three. So jack it up and put two jacks and a jack stand. Because you're going to have your head in the wheel well. You need to see behind the hub to get to the bolts. That's why it's very important to jack it up very carefully. I also put a jack stand and jack on the frame or frame support more towards the center of the car and I leave one jack on the outside on that jack point by the wheel. You're going to need a hammer too. But it could surprise you it may come apart pretty easily. Big crowbar or some kind of very large screwdriver could help also. Maybe a jack handle for a bumper jack. Something to get in there to pry. Good luck let me know how it goes

@@QOSQualityofSpeed Thank you so much thats excellent advice i will use all your suggestions and ill let you know how it goes my next attempt will be my day off Thursday thank you very much speak soon

@@QOSQualityofSpeed UPDATE Thank you so much i followed your advice and finally removed hub bolts i had to remove schock to access i have installed new hub everything fine now no noise anymore just i didnt use any loctite on bolts but were very stiff going back in and i torquedthem tight as i could hope its ok ?

@@EIREESPANA I would say it's probably ok. The the bolts were rusted. For your sanity go ahead and drive around for a week and just get up underneath their don't even need to Jack the car up just lay down on your back and shake everything like the spring in the hub and see if you notice anything loose

@@QOSQualityofSpeed thank you again ! Yeah the bolts rusty and i had to work hard to turn them back in so hopefully they are pretty secure

bearings don't give vibration. I think it's likely that your tire has a broken steel belt inside. This creates it to be like a bulge on the tread of the tire or it could even be on the side wall of the tire. This can create a vibration and even a sound. If this is the case yes the tire can blow out and I would be very careful about driving it very far. Take your hand get a glove and gently go around the tread of the tire and see if you feel something uneven. Bearings sound like you take a steel plate and you put it on a steel cone and you spin it it's a whirring sound without any vibration and the sound gets more as you go faster. I hope this helps

Yes Karen You can't drive this car

If you drive this car it's very likely the wheel will come off and you will be stuck it could cause an accident also. The reason the shop didn't notice it is that it was bad but not so bad yet and during the course of when you put the tires on and drove a little bit the bearings actually left the race so there is no more bearings in the race and you've got basically metal to metal. Please do not drive the car

If you're seeing significant play in the wheel and vibration I would not drive much. I mean maybe just around the block or something you could move the car but I don't think I would go driving down the highway or to work and back each day. This seems dangerous. If you're getting extreme heat I can tell from experience that that means it's about ready to fall off. And what I mean by that is heat like you can cook on it

Yes you can hear that it is one of the back wheels. It will be fine. I would not take 10 people with you. And only if it changes sound then check the heat.

The one concerning thing is that it's making a thump everywhere Revolution. The sounds like it has lost a ball bearing which is the little spherical piece of metal. If it's lost one of those then it's going to come apart very soon I would not drive the car at all. There may be some other reason is making a thumb like something to do with your tire likely. Check your tire this way... Take a glove and put it on your hand and then go around the tread of your tire with your palm and feel if it's uniform all the way around the tire. If you feel a large hump in part of the tire this is called a titty in the tire and it is the reason for the Thump Thump Thump. This tire also must be replaced very rapidly I'm talking about you could drive it to the garage or gas station to get them to stick on a new tire right now. But I would not drive any further than down to the end of the block or something like this. The titty in the tire is caused by breaking of the metal bands inside of the tire and then the tire bulges out there. Back to your bearing if you're bearing is the source of the thumb then I am very concerned about driving the car at all. Another thing you could do is to jack up the wheel of the car and rotated and see what's going on see what it sounds like. Then at this point you will understand if the bearing is in severely bad shape. If it's grinding or clicking really loudly then yeah that's the source of the thump. You can also wiggle the wheel back and forth when you have the weight off of it because you've jacked it up and see how much play there is. If it's a lot of play do not drive the car. If it's relatively tight but still making whirring noises but not producing very much heat when you driven for 15 minutes you probably have some time. This also would mean that you found another reason for the thump, maybe your tire. I really hope this helps let me know if you have any more questions

well ouch I don't remember ever getting burn very badly working on cars. I've been cut pretty badly. And then usually have to stop and make sure it's bandaged correctly before you continue. I guess best to put your hand very close to it and feel if there's any heat coming off but don't actually touch it. One time only once I did have a very very bad front bearing and it was not only making regular whining noise but it was also almost grinding can I stop and put my hand on that one and yes it burned me like a stove would.

yeah but it's not good thoughts. I think that it could be the front differential for a bearing in the front differential. I would have a real reputable mechanic look at things. There's a transfer case also that is directly below the shifter that puts it into four-wheel drive. Okay let's start from the top ... I would drive it let it make the noise get out and feel your hubs if they're warm then you do have a bad bearing but it should not change to put it in 4-wheel drive. it may change a little because you're locking the wheels to the axle then when it's in 4-wheel drive if it's probably electrically locked and therefore it could change the elements of the situation a little bit, so you would get a different sound. But you still would have a bad bearing. Also note that bearing noise has changed due to speed. Does it? As you speed up its going to make a whirring sound more and more. If it's a constant grinding I think we're looking more at differential or transfer case. And for completeness I will say this, I want I'm experienced a bearing that went bad in the differential on one of the sides of the axle. so there is a bearing in your truck on the wheel hub and in the differential on each side.

Well let's see it could still be the other two and I guess I would check to see if they're getting hot after you drive. Actually just go around and check all four wheels to see if one is showing up much warmer than the other. I have seen a case where a brand new wheel bearing was not made correctly in China and it was bad from the start. One other thing it could be is a bearing in the transaxle which is the transmission and differential combination The bearing leading out of the transaxle leading to the power shaft that leads to the wheel. There is a bearing leading out of that transaxle on both sides. I've seen those go bad as well. They are part of a transmission repair. But if the transmission is working fine maybe you could have somebody crack that and put in just the bearing I don't know anytime you f*** around with a transmission it's going to be a big deal. Even changing your transmission fluid can lead to problems. I'm hoping it's one of your wheel bearings. Now there is one other thing you can have that could make a grinding noise that gets louder it could be a completely used up brake shoe on the inside so you can't see it but it's grinding against your brake disc and it's been on metal. So from the outside the brake looks fine but it's actually used up on the inside. It could be this also. The two things do sound different though a bearing noise sounds more like a whurring sound and the break disc will sound like metal or metal. If a wheel bearing is extremely bad I mean like almost ready to fall off it can sound like metal or metal grinding. I really hope all this information helps.

Yes it could be that all of them are going bad but I'm going to bet it's the front wheels they tend to go bad first. Most of the time it's the front wheels that go bad. Unless something weird happens like you get water inside the Hub or something. It's because of the Turning Force

It's possible they over tightened the center lock nuts if it's an older car. If it's a new car then it's a whole hub replacement that they did and maybe it just is tight in the beginning. It can be a little tight in the beginning there made tight. but the only other way this could happen would be if you were breaking it very excessively like you were driving fast and braking a lot you could get the hubs warm

so I would drive it for a few days and see if they still seem hot. but if you don't hear a roaring sound then that means that the bearings are new he did actually replace them and their round and there's no wear inside the bearings so that's all good

Thank you, when I drove it yesterday it was no longer hot!!

@@geminigoddess3365 I'm really glad. I'm also glad you shared that with us that when they're first new you can't have more heat. when I did mine on the Jaguar they were very stiff as I took them out of the box but quickly loosened up and became normal

you are welcome I hope it helped. Ask any questions you have and I'll try to answer

Yes more than likely yes. It is possible that it could be transmission but if you're hearing it towards a wheel front or back not directly under your feet it's probably the bearing in the wheel. Chrysler 300 I believe has a drive shaft am I correct so it's a rear wheel drive car. Nice car by the way. Did the whirring noise just start suddenly one day? Yes that sounds like a bearing due to the fact that the faster you go the louder it gets so if you hear it at 50 miles an hour that really does sound like a wheel bearing. It's not a big deal to change them but as long as it's not producing a lot of heat it's not going to let go anytime in the near future. I changed mine you see here in this video but as you can see they were in fine shape they were not going to come apart. But I probably could have gotten another six months out of driving them but you know if the noises bothering you or they're producing a lot of heat then it's a good idea to change. If you drive the car along way to work and back each on highway speeds then I would definitely get it changed sooner rather than later maybe in a week or so. It is possible for you to do the job yourself if you have tools make sure you Jack the car up and supported well with maybe three different jacks or a jack stand and a jack also

Yes really bad and they need to be done now. Soon

@@QOSQualityofSpeed thank you for response !!! God bless!!!

@@edgarponce9571 really glad to help that's why I made the video. If you have any other questions or when you take them off please let us know what happened

hi I will be glad to try to help. My first thought is that it could be a bulge on your tire. We used to call this a titty on the tire. It will make it sound very much like a helicopter. So what's happened is some of the metal belts inside the tire have broken and this is caused a bulge on one part of the tread. So it's getting on an even sound as it rolls whaaa whaaa whaa kind of thing. aside from this there's not much that will give an uneven sound. If it was a wheel bearing it is a constant whirring sound not and intermittent. A wheel bearing sounds very much like you would take a metal plate and put it on top of a cone and you would spin it. there's one more possibility a severely warped rotor. if your rotor on that wheel is very out of plane it could grab and let go grab and let go grab and let go and this could maybe make that sound. However it probably wouldn't be very loud. So my best guess is that it would be a titty on your tire. It's a bulge on the tread. Put a glove on and run your hand around the tread of the tire. I say put a glove on because it could be metal fibers sticking out I've been cut more than once this way. If you feel that it's very uneven in one spot then that's definitely the problem. Last thing yes this does need to be dealt with right away because the tire can blow out on you

It must get very hot before it falls off. I wouldn't drive to another state. I don't like the fact that when you replaced the rotors and brakes this made the noise get worse. It means that one of the sides of the bearing is very bad. I believe that the wheel was slightly cocked to the side the whole time you were driving and then when you replace the brakes and rotor it straightened it up so now it's has one bearing and race probably chewed up a little bit and the other one is more or less intact but this is why it's making more noise now. Still it's going to generate a lot of heat before it really tears something up in there. I would be interested to see how it looks when you take it off if it looks like the one you see in the video where the bearing and races are still intact or it looks like you're starting to lose ball bearings. An answer to your question, any bearing I've ever seen that's actually fell off the car was generating a lot of heat before that happened One came off in my hands as I jack the car up. Another one fell off in the wheel kind of collapsed as I was in a turn. I was a car dealer so I was getting a car back to the shop and that's when these occurrences happened. I was aware that the bearing was in bad shape. But over my lifetime I've seen many bearings go bad in cars but they only fall off after they start generating a lot of heat.

I don't like if it has too much play. Because then something can get dislodged and start to actually grind and cut the hub. But if you're talking about just a very small amount of play no resistance and no heat as you've driven it for 15 minutes then probably there'll be okay for another couple weeks. It depends on how much you're driving I wouldn't be taking any trips to Florida. Watch for changes and sound and watch for how much heat it's putting out if it starts to grind or smoke or put out a lot of heat like get really really hot in the center of the wheel then I would definitely stop driving the car

If it's getting hot then that is bearing The bearings today come as a set so it's like the whole hub assembly. You will need some big tools to put it on. But I think I would have a mechanic do both bearings from the front or the rear whichever you're hearing it from. The one that you touch that was hot yeah that makes sense to me that means that it's the bearing there's really no other way the rim will get hot.

Definitely not a good idea to keep driving it. I believe I know what is causing the popping noises. This is caused by your CVC joints and they are worn and probably the boots are cracked so what's happened as water has gotten in there and they are no longer a lubricated and probably rusted. It's not the end of the world but from what you're describing it's time to stop driving. I mean a short drive someplace if you have to go maybe but if you turn really sharp one day it's going to pop out of there and that would mean that you would be Stock. It also could be a little bit dangerous. Now what I mean by a short drive is if you had to drive it from one house to another on the same street probably I wouldn't get too worried but anyting further would be worrisome for me at this point. So I think that the wobbling steering wheel is probably also something to do with the steering rack or the ball joint ends. This can also make your wheel wobble because it has play. Anyway I hope this helped and if you have any other questions let me know I'll be glad to answer them.

Also the heat slightly in the front wheels is probably caused from the CVC joints as well because there's a lot of friction happening there. If they were lubricated they wouldn't be hot but because the lubrication has broken down now they're getting warm.

@@QOSQualityofSpeed Thank you so much for explaining and answering We really need more people like you

@@LilJ3090 Really glad I could help. Does CVC joints are a little difficult to do by yourself. But you can buy the whole axle and you may even be able to get it from the junkyard which would be very inexpensive. If you have a friend in some tools you can put it on yourself you don't need anything really huge but some good Jack's you'll need. And why you're under their check the steering rack when you pull on the ball joint it shouldn't move in and out much. Also check your ball joint because that could be the reason for the play.

I am very glad this helped

Absolutely before it actually let's go it's going to make a tremendous amount of noise and even start smoking. You'll smell it. Now if you take a sharp turn and it's already making a lot of noise or driving erratically it could cause it to let go. But if it's just starting to make a whirring sound I don't believe that you're even close to that point. And if you noticed it's starting to get really hot to the touch well then that means it's more damaged. The real test will be to jack up the car and wiggle it to see how much play there is. Anyway you'll be fine driving 80 miles. What I mean is you shouldn't drive for another 6 months. And it has to do with when you noticed the whirring sound happening. The one as I was a car dealer that actually was very close to letting go as I got it back to the dealership lot was starting to smoke and even smell.

Well let's look at this. The bearing noise should get worse after a certain speed likes a 40 miles per hour and then you'll hear it and then it should increase the faster you go honestly. There could be some weird thing going on with sound resonance they can cause it to sound stronger at a certain speed. I've definitely experienced that. But if there is a small hole in the exhaust anywhere yes it can be even a droning sound it can drone on and on and even vibrate around inside the car. It doesn't have to be a big hole a small hole in the exhaust will make a hum sound

Yeah absolutely right you can do it that way. The only problem is then you can't tell how seriously bad the varying is or not but if you put your hand on it and feel the heat then you know that it's actually really getting serious if it's very hot

yes I have one of those thermal detectors. I have only used that for detecting hotspots in the engine or checking air conditioning. I usually use my hand for the checking of the bearings but I might take your advice and try using the thermal detector on that

@@QOSQualityofSpeed I have never attempted to touch the wheel with my hand before. I am worried I might lose some skin or fingers if it's red hot. On my car at least, I would be interested in the temperature of the lug bolts because they are connected to the hub that is connected to the bearing. Previously, I experienced what I believe was a ball in a bearing blowing. Because I could not tell which wheel, it's been nagging at me for a long while. Your dealer secret might finally allow me to find that wheel.

@@fungames24 certainly you can tell which wheel and how bad it is by how warm it's getting. One of my subscribers said please use the back of your hand to go close to the wheel to feel the heat because it's more sensitive. I'm not sure if that would work but I think it's an interesting idea. I have before had a slight burn on my fingertips by touching a very hot wheel but this one was making a tremendous amount of noise and I'm talking about it actually was smoking when I stopped because I had just purchased the car and I was bringing it back to the shop for repairs and I was just trying to make it the small distance to the shop but the bearing was so bad it's the worst bearing I've ever seen. That the wheel actually got smoking hot and in that case yes when I lightly touch the wheel it burn my fingers. Most of the time you're just going to feel it getting warm. I mean it could be hot but not enough to burn you. But the warmer it is the more you know that that bearing is actually bad. On my Jaguar the front two bearings went bad due to the Terrible Weather we have here in Northern Russia. There's a lot of water and ice and stuff all over the roads and you're driving through water and contaminated water and of course this is going to ruin the bearings in any car because there's a slight leak where the Darren can't be sealed completely due to the rotating of the wheel. Parking your car in water overnight is also an extremely bad thing to do if it's high enough. It will find a way into the bearing and ruin it. I hope all this helps

Finally got round to check my wheel bearings with an infrared thermometer. I checked after 5-10 miles of driving. The lug bolt on all 4 wheels read 19-20C. The consistency in the reading tells me all the bearing are good. One rear factory bearing has 130k miles on it and 16 years old. The other 3 have 20-30k on them. This has got to be the easiest way to check the bearings, and no guessing.

Yes I agree with you it's the big indication of good or bad. Glad to help)