my car makes massive hum, sounds like its coming from middle of car or rear. I dont want to buy all 4 new ones. Is there any way of like moving the wheel to determine which is bad?

 

i just jacked up my car & tried to move tire back & forth (towards the car & away from car)....if you can then you need wheel bearings.

I thought I had 2 bad wheel bearings....dealer said 3 ....oh well, fixed under warranty

 

wow, also i just finished speaking to Ken at JRNissan (these guys are great), he told me the back of our cars (4th gens) have to get wheel bearings and hub replaced but fronts just need wheel bearings replaced. I guess i'll go to local shop and have them jack up car and let them determine with a second opinion. What causes these ***** to go bad anyway? BTW backs are 80 something a piece, front is only 38.

 

BTW, when i drive faster, it gets louder and when i turn left the noise stops....

 

yeah, 99% sure your bearings are going out. Hit any curbs lately, that's often causes them to fail really quickly, also just abusing the car (trying to do ebrake slides on dry pavement, hitting stuff lol, sometimes even big **** bumps/holes/etc can push them over the edge). Sometimes they will pass the whole shake/wiggle test, but still be bad, that happened to my car not to long ago.

 

i did run over something big way back...well is there anything else that can make the hum sound besides bearing?

 

it might be 38 for the part itself, but with the labor its gonna be like 200+.. cuz they gotta press out the old bearing and put the new one in...

i think mine are going bad too, but i'm too cheap to fix it right now

 

I had a hum sounds then I put on different tires/rims and the hum went away, now im back on the old tires/rms and the hum is back.... Im about to put new rims on so i'll let you know if the hum leaves again :P

 

The passenger side drive shaft carrier bearing can also go bad and hum. I'm suspecting that to be a problem with the wife's 2k Maxima.

Also, tire noise can get pretty loud, especially if you're down to the wear indicators.

 

**** man

see, u know what, i'm not even gonna order it. I'm going to find a shop to get it. So when they buy it and its not the problem, they go out of pocket and not me.

 

i think my wheel bearings are bad too.. ive been hearing this low humming sound coming for the rear for some time now, but recently ive had a clunk type sound when making right turns but only happens when it wants to.. its really weird

 

One question about wheel bearings, when I'm slowing down, I hear a humming noise coming from the front. Is this a sign of wheel bearings going bad?