Clio 172 warble/rumble noise

[joshspeed]

Hi,

There is a warble noise coming the drivers front that corresponds with the wheel rotating. Naturally you would think wheel bearing but this has been replaced, so has the entire driveshaft, brake caliper and discs & pads, yet the noise still persists. It's not the wheel or tyre either as i've swapped the front and rears around and the noise is still in the same place.

A strange note to add however is that when the wheels were swapped over the noise was reduced, yet gradually got worse again over time.

It's been like it for the past 10k+ miles now and i'm completely out of ideas as to what it could possibly be.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[Goodj]

did it ever get beter afdter you did the bearings?

I replaced a front wheel bearing in my old 172 and 2 weeks later had to have another one fitted again as the new part had almost immediately shat itself

 

[joshspeed]

Nope made no difference at all

 

[Goodj]

hmmmmmm.
From what you say you've changed out...what is possibly left on that corner?

The hub itself?

 

[Goodj]

Curious double post

 

[joshspeed]

Yeah that's the only thing i can think of that hasn't been replaced

 

[Goodj]

worth a try then I guess

 

[joshspeed]

I've read in some places that it could be tracking related. I had this done a while ago and it reduced the noise quite substantially to the point where it was almost inaudible, yet again it gradually got worse over time

 

[Goodj]

ahhhhh!
well, get yourself in for a quite alignment then, it';d be cheaper than a hub.
If it fixes it, then gets worse, something is loose in your fixings...I guess

 

[joshspeed]

Yeah worth a punt I guess, i'm just at the point now where i'm fed up of spending money on it and still being no better off lol

 

[Goodj]

Welcome to French cars lol