Wierd Clunking noise when turning..

[98mitsubishigst]

Okay i was on my way home and i went to make a right hand turn .. (going like 5 miles per hour) and i heard a Clunk clunk clunk noise... I went to pull in driveway and the noise happened again..

so i took it back up the hill, and tried going left and then right and the only time i heard the noise was going right..

I parked the car for an hour, jacked car up and checked the passenger side wheel for play.. and couldnt move it side to side or up and down...

I took the car back out and i drove around for a half hour and havent heard it since...

What could that have been??

 

[turbotalon31]

could be a bad cv joint

 

[my dreamt dsm]

Take you tires off and push the axle back and forth, should be no play. If so the ball joints inside the cv boot are bad.

 

[98mitsubishigst]

yeah i been reading that... but theres no tear in the boot? and the boot looks perfectly fine... =/

 

[idkiliketurbos]

I have a similar simptom on my car but it seems to mostly do it when I take 90 degree left turns and it goes faster the faster I go but then when I push the clutch it the noise stops. This only happens on turns. I do know that the passenger side cv boot is torn where it meets the transmission. I'm guessing a similar problem with both of us.

 

[9!'clipseDOHC]

Or tie rods. I was just describing this on another thread but I had the same thing, I only heard it sporadiclly at low speed turns but it was definitely a clicking sound and it wasn't all the time. Ended up being the driver's side inner tie rod.

 

[idkiliketurbos]

For me, as well as you seem to have described in your post, the noise is definatly a clunk clunk clunk and not a clicking sound.

 

[crazyboy81]

I sometimes hear a clunk either when pulling in the driveway, and sometimes when braking. I wonder.... It's always just 1 "clunk".. what could that be?

 

[Big T-28 GSX]

I sometimes hear a clunk either when pulling in the driveway, and sometimes when braking. I wonder.... It's always just 1 "clunk".. what could that be?

Could be old/bad struts. Does it come from a certain wheel?

 

[98mitsubishigst]

Stop thread jacking =P! haha

no but really.. it only does it sometimes apparently? i mean i know im overdue with the rotor change... WAYYY over actually.. hahaha but it won't make that noise anymore since i shut car off and let her cool down... its only right hand turns.. idn ill keep you guys updated.. ima take the passenger wheel off and inspect everything tomorrow and letcha all know!

 

[JusMX141]

If it's coming from the passenger's side, then your passenger's side axle is hosed.

 

[98mitsubishigst]

whatcha mean "hosed" ??

 

[crazyboy81]

Could be old/bad struts. Does it come from a certain wheel?

My hearing is horrible so I really can't say. Maybe the driver side...

Stop thread jacking =P! haha!

hahaha it was a good opportunity

 

[kidtsi]

when mine clunked was the lower arm ball joint, 3 days later the tire fell.

 

[JusMX141]

whatcha mean "hosed" ??

Jacked, screwed, fuct.

 

[98mitsubishigst]

=/ its not making that noise anymore for some reason...

is it not safe to drive on it ? hahah =/

 

[DSMTyson]

I sometimes hear a clunk either when pulling in the driveway, and sometimes when braking. I wonder.... It's always just 1 "clunk".. what could that be?

My car does this as well. Inner tie rod ends i believe.

 

[98mitsubishigst]

^^ ill check this sometime in next couple days and letcha know

 

[AllWheelRS]

My car does this as well. Inner tie rod ends i believe.

If it were inner tie rod ends you would have play in one or both of the wheels when jacked up and shaken back and forth. (if you don't understand how to "shake down" a front end google it and then try it)

 

[Wobet]

I have a similar simptom on my car but it seems to mostly do it when I take 90 degree left turns and it goes faster the faster I go but then when I push the clutch it the noise stops. This only happens on turns. I do know that the passenger side cv boot is torn where it meets the transmission. I'm guessing a similar problem with both of us.

Turn your car on. Pop the hood. Give it a little gas and watch your serpitine belt. I have seen alot about turning right and this happening. For it turning out to be crankwalk. And alot of people say "it's not as common as people think" but i went to a junk yard in a small canadian city with 6 crankwalked eclipse that were stripped and parted out because none wanted to put the money into the fix