Clicking sound...
 

I don´t know if this is the correct section to post this, but anyway...

I did a search and didn´t find this particular issue mentioned before.

I have been getting this clicking sound from the driver´s side (I can´t tell exactly where it´s comming from, but I think it´s the back). The thing is this:

When I´m driving along, I get a clicking sound. When I drive faster, the clicking gets faster, when I slow down, the clicking slows down. I thought it was something stuck to the tires, but I already checked them and they are clean (they also have very low mileage on them, and are not deformed in any way, and the sound was not there when I first got them).

It sounds like two clicks per tire revolution (could be three or even four, I haven´t stuck out my head and looked at how fast they turn in relation to the clicking). The sound is there all the time (regardless of being in gear, in neutral, turning, or driving perfectly straight). I think it´s from the back of the car (the rear wheel section). But I can´t tell what it is. Any ideas?

WELL its OBVIOUS it has something to do with the rotating portion of your car....try jacking up each corner and taking a good look at each of your discs.....its POSSIBLE there is something wrong with one of them and the sound you are hearing is it contacting the brake pads each time they come around....OR a stick or SOEMTHING back there in the wheel that is spinning with it.........does it ever stop when you are moving? as in once you get to highway speeds? or over a certain speed?

have a friend help....have them drive your car and YOU listen from the back seat....open the window and stick your head out so you can see which side its coming from...

if you had hubcaps I would tell you to take them off and see if someone put a few rocks in one of them.....that is an old trick that will drive people nuts....lol

I have rims, not hubcaps. So no rocks. But the tempo of the clicking is perfect, and a rock would sound a little less constant (more random)... also, it would stop at a certain speed as the rock gets stuck to the outside of the hubcap with the rotation.

Anyway... it doesn´t stop at high speeds, I was doing 85 the other day, and I could still hear it (really fast clicking). And if I go rreeeeaaalllllyyyyy ssssslllllooooowwww it doesn´t do it... but I would have to be going so slow that the needle doesn´t even move. If I coast (idle) in first gear I can still hear it.

I also need a wall next to the car (driving along a wall, or something else) to reflect the sound back towards me as I drive. :dunno:

I will take your advice and try to jack it up and check the brakes, and the rims for something stuck to them. It sounds metalic. If that doesn´t work, I will get my wife to drive it for me.

Thanks.

It might be the CV joints. Does the problem seem worse when you make turns?