Chirping noise from wheels

**jluv97** · 09-15-2002, 05:11 PM

My car has a little problem that I can't quite pin down. When I am moving and my window is down I hear a chiming/chirping/whistling noise from my front driver wheel. It is really quite and can't be heard with the windows up, but I am a perfectionist so it has been drivng be nuts lately.
It isn't the wheel itself or the tire. It isn't the brake assembly. I think it has something to do with the wheel bearings since it is related to tire rotation (I go faster, it goes faster). Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Josh

**Mazarin** · 09-15-2002, 10:20 PM

Any stones stuck in your tread? I had that happen to me, and it drove me mad until I found the stone stuck on the inside tread

**pinoyesv6** · 09-15-2002, 10:22 PM

i had that problem just today. my galant hasn't been driven in 2 weeks. i checked the tire pressure and it was more than 10 psi lower than spec. you might wanna check that out

Kain · 09-16-2002, 07:30 AM

Hmm, usually that's a sign that the brakes are down to the "squeeler" letting you know that it's time to service the brakes. But you seem to have already ruled it out. Umm, a small stone tightly wedged in the tire could cause such a noise. A slightly unbalanced wheel, or bent rim could cause that (quite improbable though), The Galant has no front wheelbearings per-se so you can't have a problem with something you don't have. It could even be a wearing strut. That's really all the help I can offer you.

**jluv97** · 09-16-2002, 07:59 AM

This is the second set of wheels that do this.
The first set, I rotated to make sure it wasn't the wheel. Then when I put the wheels on this weekend, I had new tires put on.