Just like Mercedes rear axles, front wheel drive CV joints usually don't go bad until the boot fails, which is easy to see.
If you can produce knocking noise in a tight turn (at wheel lock, try forward and reverse gears), that is a sure sign of a bad axle. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300 '87 300TD Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: >Our '03 Focus is making some noise from the front end. More pronounced >on turns, especially to the right. > >I suspected wheel bearings, and there is some side to side slop in the >driver's side wheel, but none top to bottom. When I look at the >movement, the whole knuckle is moving, if it was the bearing then I >should not see that right? So maybe it's the tie rod? But would that >make noise while driving? > >The noise is sometimes more like a growling and sometimes more like a >rattle. > >Allan >-- >1979 300SD >1983 300D > > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
