I was driving through a construction zone when all of a sudden I heard an awful knocking noise and my car starting pulling to the right. It felt and sounded like a flat tire. I pulled over and everything seemed fine, so I starting driving again. About a mile later, the same thing happened, but worse. And there was smoke coming from my wheel-well. The car runs fine, and the gauges are fine, but it's almost like the tire doesn't want to move. Does anybody have ANY idea what this could be?
2007-12-04 15:48:52 · 7 answers · asked by Bee 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
stop driving it for one. Sounds like your wheel bearing is bad. Unless your brake assembly really f*cked up and is locking up the wheel.
2007-12-04 15:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by Luke C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The brakes can cause heat if they need replaced metal to metal thing. In turn this will heat up the bearings and can cause them to fail. Before you lose the wheel while driving have it towed to your nearest mechanics shop. This is very important. This happeded to me one time and i lost the wheel ,drum,brakes and it cost about 1k to get it fixed. And this was a long time ago. I was just lucky it happened at a stop and just starting to go ahead and next thing i seen was the wheel going down the street all buy itself.
2007-12-04 16:05:20 · answer #2 · answered by Big Deal Maker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a bearing or brake problem. The other post is right. The bearing needs to be attended to if that's it because it can cause the wheel to seize and could come off.
2007-12-04 15:57:29 · answer #3 · answered by Phillip D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you drove over something. Did you get out and have a look under the car at what might be stuck under there? Maybe you ran over the signal man, and that was him knocking on the bottom of your car. It`s really hard to diagnose a noise without hearing it. Time to take it in to the shop.
2007-12-04 16:36:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the brake answers are right on, but is yours a 4 wheel drive? if so the axle joints will do just as you describe
2007-12-04 16:48:45 · answer #5 · answered by gmc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
either your caliper on the right is stuck or you lost a wheel bearing which wouldn't surprise me if you did because Durangos are Notorious for front end problems
2007-12-04 19:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by wditt2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PWNED!!!
2007-12-04 15:56:06 · answer #7 · answered by Nathan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋