hi guys ! i have a technical problem ! All of a sudden i have found out that my car give me a clicking sound when i turn the steering wheel ! I know u must be saying that it must be the axle but .. it does it while the car is not moving ... like when its standing and it turn the steering wheel in either direction .. it gives a weird click, click ... sound .. what could it be .. plzzz help

Regards

 

Strut Bearings.

 

thanx man ! could u tell me how much it would cost me .. and can i wait on this one ! like get it replaced after a while ??

 

your CV joints. go and check to see if you have any weird fluids on your axles and check the boots.

 

See my thread:

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....hreadid=109224

Sound familiar?

 

i had the same prob.....went to nissan dealership and it turned out to be the boot covers on the axle...40 bucks a piece plus installation. Good Luck

 

It could be any of the problems mentioned above. You can use the stethoscope trick to more closely pin-point the problem. Have a buddy turn the wheel for you while you listen at the top of the strut housing with the scope. If the nose comes from there it's the strut bearings. Repeat this process with the scope by the boots. This should help you narrow down the problem.

 

i will go and check on the axles .... but after going thru the other thread by kwheelz .. yes it is the same noise .. which comes only when the car is stationery or moving extremely slowly .... but it is kinda noticeable .. but however i am saisfied .. that I dont need to worry abt it ...

btw do u still get the clicking noise ?

 

If you're asking me, this noise just started 2 days ago & yep, I've still got it. (also happens at slow speeds, like yours, especially if turning the wheel suddenly) Oh well. . .

 

hey kwheelz ..... so who is gonna get it checked first ! hmmmm man i have final exams comin up in 20 days ! i gues will get it done after that ! Are u gonna get an inspection by any chance ?

 

Nah, not gonna bring it in for this & get raped by Nissan. I'll figure it out eventually. The thing is, it's such a consistent, identifiable, mechanical type noise (relay, vacuum diaphragm, etc.) that I'm sure if I could get a trained Nissan tech. to hear it, (or even some of the more technical people on this board) they would be able to pinpoint what it is immediately, no fuss, no muss.

But try asking for free help like that at the 'stealership - Hah! They'd probably sooner spit in your face than pull one of their techs off a job for 30 seconds to help a do-it-yourselfer identify a noise. They'd rather bill me for an hour of diagnosis that would really take under a minute, I'm sure.

(Ok, they're there to make $, but think of how much more likely I would be to buy another Nissan in the future if I got that kind of assistance - that's called operating a business w/ a sense of "the big picture.")

On a different note. . .

-got bigger fish to fry for now: suspension just developed a new noise 3 weeks after I did the install, so I have to chase that down before I can get my alignment done.

(Been running crappy old tires, so no worry about chewing them up w/ a bad alignment all this time - I just wanted to give the suspension ample time to "settle" b4 getting the alignment done).