Intermittent noise

[Teejay]

Hi all, Cally has started making an intermittent creaking noise. (Sounds a bit like when you walk on new snow)
Even when the car is stationary if you moving the steering wheel left and right you hear it but not there all the time only when the car has been driven a while.
Wheels look like they are juddering slighly when you move the wheel and you can feel a vibration if you put your hands on the wings.
Had it checked at the local garage and the only thing we found was a split gaitor on the n/s drive shaft which got replaced after re-lubricating but it's still doing it.
Thoughts?

[Stupink]

top strutt bearing? the mounts get bent sometimes and end up in contact.. its a reasonable ammount of work to strip it to check though, depends how bad the problem is to you i guess.

[gazcallyt]

That sounds very similiar to the noise I have just sorted, mine ended up being the wheel bearing.

Gary

[Teejay]

That sounds very similiar to the noise I have just sorted, mine ended up being the wheel bearing.

Gary

Was this even with the car stationary?
Did you have to change both?

[gazcallyt]

Mine was speed related, the noise got faster with more speed, hard to describe the noise almost sounded like something creaking, but I did notice it would also make the noise while stationary and just turning the wheel, but after say two or three turns it would stop, until I got going again, I only changed the one, but the other side was swapped about three months prior to this.

It got on me t**s for ages couldn't pin point what it was, thought it was the disc shield catching at first, then the abs sensor, then onto the cv joint and then eventually the hub and bearing, swapped them all and it was the last thing I swapped that solved it, typical.

Hope this helps.

Gaz.

[Markp]

As previously stated, i would suggest strut top mount bearings. Had this on my astra and once changed the noise went.

[whippit]

Not sure on the calibra but on other Vxs I have owned that noise is almost always the ARB drop link