e46 M3 clucking away

[Xack]

Hi guys, ive got problems with my e46 M3, theres a weird cluck cluck cluck sound coming from my right rear wheel...sometimes its quiet, then it comes again, i tried to look and see if anything is touching, nothing...cant see anything, i havent taken the wheel off yet...it sounds terrible man:blueCry::blueCry::blueCry::blueCry:

 

[tivoli786]

Could be wheel bearing on it's way out.

 

[graan13]

As above or drive shaft joint

 

[Xack]

It sounds more like something touching the wheel...bearing sounds different, the Flex Disk Guibo is on its way out, but its not that bad...and its not the Guibo iam hearing guys

 

[JayDrft]

Its your drive shaft from the Diff to the wheels, you will discovery a torn cv boot, where your grease has come out, or its just damaged and omits an erratic sound.

I also never heard the noise I heard, I had the e30 318i, and only then did I discover the use of cv's on a rear wheel drive car.

Let us know...Its either the inner(Diff side) our outer boot(Wheel side)...inspect the rubber boots thoroughly.

 

[Xack]

Its your drive shaft from the Diff to the wheels, you will discovery a torn cv boot, where your grease has come out, or its just damaged and omits an erratic sound.

I also never heard the noise I heard, I had the e30 318i, and only then did I discover the use of cv's on a rear wheel drive car.

Let us know...Its either the inner(Diff side) our outer boot(Wheel side)...inspect the rubber boots thoroughly.

i sincerely hope you are wrong:blueCry:

 

[JayDrft]

Its nothing serious, its similar to a front wheel drive car.

All you do, is either replace the fault cv at either end of the shaft, or you replace both(which is probably safer and wiser on an M).

I can tell you its from hard acceleration and some traction lose.

Should be a fairly affordable and easy fix. Take it into a cv centre for a proper inspection. Avoid high speed driving until you know whats wrong as it can sieze and cause major damage.

 

[Gizmo]

I have a m3 rhs side shaft if you need one.

 

[Xack]

Thankyou boys, problem solved, had the wheels balanced and alignment done, turns out the right rear wheel was so far out,it rubbed my inner walls...iam running 19' CSL reps, 275/35 in the back and 245 in front, now my Runflat light thingy turned red :hammerhead:....the light was never on eish..gonna try the reset sequence later today checked my pressure back and front, turns out front 20 kpa higher than back

 

[Xack]

Thankyou boys, problem solved, had the wheels balanced and alignment done, turns out the right rear wheel was so far out,it rubbed my inner walls...iam running 19' CSL reps, 275/35 in the back and 245 in front, now my Runflat light thingy turned red :hammerhead:....the light was never on eish..gonna try the reset sequence later today checked my pressure back and front, turns out front 20 kpa higher than back

JUst as i was bout to get happy, the thing started Cluckking away again and loud as ever, gave Peter a call a few times but to no avail, was close to X-mas so i understood. Finally i decided to crawl under the car and have a look...and well, there it was, the bracket keeping my handbrake cable in place right next to my wheel was happily dangling and cause of the noise, looked for a 10mm bolt, fitted, and all is good... So it doesn't hurt to have a look before we go running off to stealerships and mechies boys..:skit:

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[Crash_Nemesis]

Glad you got it sorted man!

 

[Xack]

Glad you got it sorted man!

Me too:=):