The car is a 91 318is.
There is a clicking coming from the front left wheel. It's only noticeable past 45-50 mph, seems to change with speed slightly. Checked for stones stuck in the tread and found nothing. I am going to rotate the tires tomorrow and see if the noise changes with that tire anyways to rule it out completely.
Pretty sure it's not the wheel bearing. With the tire off the ground, there is no grinding noise coming from it, no clicking, no play. Both front wheel bearings were replaced about 10k miles ago.
Read somewhere that it could be coming from the brakes, pulled the caliper off and checked the guide pins. Found this:
Pretty sure that's supposed to be round. One of the boots also has a hole in it. I'm about to order a rebuilt caliper (~$60 for the caliper after the core charge vs the guide pins with boots for ~$30, the better deal is obvious). I greased the pins with permatex brake quiet and put a little bit on the back of the brake pads wherever there would be metal to metal contact.
Could the guide pins be the source of the clicking though? If not, what do I check next?
There is a clicking coming from the front left wheel. It's only noticeable past 45-50 mph, seems to change with speed slightly. Checked for stones stuck in the tread and found nothing. I am going to rotate the tires tomorrow and see if the noise changes with that tire anyways to rule it out completely.
Pretty sure it's not the wheel bearing. With the tire off the ground, there is no grinding noise coming from it, no clicking, no play. Both front wheel bearings were replaced about 10k miles ago.
Read somewhere that it could be coming from the brakes, pulled the caliper off and checked the guide pins. Found this:
Pretty sure that's supposed to be round. One of the boots also has a hole in it. I'm about to order a rebuilt caliper (~$60 for the caliper after the core charge vs the guide pins with boots for ~$30, the better deal is obvious). I greased the pins with permatex brake quiet and put a little bit on the back of the brake pads wherever there would be metal to metal contact.
Could the guide pins be the source of the clicking though? If not, what do I check next?
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