Celica Forums General Discussion General wierd sound. help!

ok, today i was drivin the car kinda hard. raced a little bit on the freeway from 60 to 100 a cuple times, and took looping freeway entrances at very high speeds. then when i was almost home and taking a corner very slowly (about 10mph) i hear this, squeek squeek sound, and after listening to it for a minut i realize that the faster the wheel turns the faster the sound goes, so i know it has somehting to do with the front left wheel (where the sound was coming from). could i have bent something? fuck, and i was planning on going to the track tomarow . what should i do?

Doesn't sound too serious. Brakes?

i got no clue if its the brakes. but i got a new set of disks, and pads sittin in my room

I sometimes get a squeaky sound when it's wet out.

Sorry can't help but good luck if you go to the track man. smoke them mother fucker.

it was totally dry. you think it would be a bad idea to go to the track?

Yeah man. Remove the driver side wheel in the morning & check everything out before you go

what should i look for?

Just make sure everything's cool with the disk & nothing is loose. Drive it around a bit more at low speed with the radio off. Take a few turns slowly. I really don't know what it is in your case but try to pinpoint the squeak a little more. R U sure it's definitely coming from there?

definitely check it out before you go to the track... make sure you id the problem because no matter what it's not worth going to race blind

Yep

hey i bet that thing ur mom put on ur car will tell you. ask her to look up the time of day and i bet it tells you j/k

I can almost guarantee that its the brake pads.

you could always swap your front left an right tires and see if the problem switches sides
if it does, then its your tire, if it doesnt the problem exists somewhere on that side of the axle...
thats what i did for a problem i had a month ago

look for grooves on your brake disc to see if there is metel on metal... this happened to my G20 numberous times

yeah, have you been doing a lot of heavy braking or are they just really old pads? might need to replace them.

On just about every car theres a little metal piece thats called a screamer, and it makes your breakes squeal when you hit the brake. It rubs on the rotor when your brake pads get worn down do a certain point. The squeeking is happens in slower speeds, and when the brake is depressed more.

im so fucking lucky, and stupid. 4 of my lug nuts were about to fall off from being so loose, and the other one was loose enough that i could tighten it more with my hand.
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DAMN... that coulda been bad

yea, i coulda lost my wheel easily

lucky doesn't even begin to describe it. good thing you checked!!!

I'm glad it wasn't something serious!

That's the worst thing ever.

"How did you total your car?"

"My wheel fell off"

Glad you got it figured out

coulda lost more than that ...

Doesn't it damage the rim to drive with loose bolts?

Driving at 100MPH on a gimpy wheel is a bad idea.

my trap speed was only 89 so i think i woulda been fine
but yea, im so fuckin lucky

Make sure you didn't damage the studs.

almost bad news

^^Yup