wiccanferret
03-27-2004, 08:59 PM
Sorry about the long post, but there are all sorts of odd things going on with my car right now.
This is a doozie. The car just came out of the shop for front brake pads and a thermostat.
1.) It's still heating up. No air in the system, brand new radiator, brand new stat, brand new rad cap. It spewed out of the new rad cap anyway, earlier today.
2.) Now it's making this gawd awful, loud, rapid thunking noise. It started doing it every once in a while when you would lightly hit the brakes. Then, after about an hour of delivering, it got constant. When you're just going down the road, you hear the rapid-fire thunking noise, but there is no perceivable performance differences. You can feel slight vibration in the steering wheel. When you turn to the right, it goes away completely until you're straight again. When you turn to the left, it makes it worse. But it sounds like it's coming from dead center, under the front of the car. If someone were to tell me there were a elf dribbling a golf ball in the transmission , I would believe them. When you hit the brakes, it gets louder and louder until you're about three quarter of the way down the pedal, and then it goes silent. If you go fast enough it goes silent.
2a.) The brakes are making thunking sounds when you take off like they're sticking.
3.) The car was acting like it's front wheels were seriously out of balance recently, but only at certain highway speeds. Normal symptoms, getting worse when you hit the brakes and such. Could this have caused a problem? Could this have been something other than tire balance?
4.) The transmission stops using OD every once in a while. While this is not new to this car, it's done it twice in two days...that is more often than normal.
Is there a chance that something is loose in the brakes? They feel fine.
This is a doozie. The car just came out of the shop for front brake pads and a thermostat.
1.) It's still heating up. No air in the system, brand new radiator, brand new stat, brand new rad cap. It spewed out of the new rad cap anyway, earlier today.
2.) Now it's making this gawd awful, loud, rapid thunking noise. It started doing it every once in a while when you would lightly hit the brakes. Then, after about an hour of delivering, it got constant. When you're just going down the road, you hear the rapid-fire thunking noise, but there is no perceivable performance differences. You can feel slight vibration in the steering wheel. When you turn to the right, it goes away completely until you're straight again. When you turn to the left, it makes it worse. But it sounds like it's coming from dead center, under the front of the car. If someone were to tell me there were a elf dribbling a golf ball in the transmission , I would believe them. When you hit the brakes, it gets louder and louder until you're about three quarter of the way down the pedal, and then it goes silent. If you go fast enough it goes silent.
2a.) The brakes are making thunking sounds when you take off like they're sticking.
3.) The car was acting like it's front wheels were seriously out of balance recently, but only at certain highway speeds. Normal symptoms, getting worse when you hit the brakes and such. Could this have caused a problem? Could this have been something other than tire balance?
4.) The transmission stops using OD every once in a while. While this is not new to this car, it's done it twice in two days...that is more often than normal.
Is there a chance that something is loose in the brakes? They feel fine.