Hi everyone. I'm fairly new to the forum and this is my first real post.
I purchased a 2002 Tahoe LS back in February 2017 and recently had some problems arising.
It started with a metal on metal sound coming from what I thought was my front driver side wheel. Everything I looked up sounded like the wheel bearing is wearing out. Recently, I started to think it might be the rear driver side wheel. It's hard to pinpoint, could be both. I drove on it with the noise for awhile thinking it was a bent dust shield as I had just purchased new tires.
Recently, however, the noise has increased in frequency and there is now a wailing noise as the vehicle is in motion. Like a fast, "wawawawa" that increases or decreases with speed.
In addition to the new noise, whenever I'm coming to a stop, there is a fairly loud and deep grinding noise and the vehicle shakes quite a bit. I don't feel the shaking in the brake pedal or the steering wheel so much. I primarily notice that my side mirror shakes a lot.
I'm about to go pull the wheels and see if I can figure out what it is. But, I wanted to reach out to the community to see if anyone is familiar with the symptoms.
Thanks in advance for all of your help. I've already learned a lot from reading through old threads and you all seems like a good bunch of people.
P
Vehicle specs & history:
2002 Tahoe LS, 4wd, 5.3 Vortec, 134.5 k miles
Purchased from original owner who kept it garaged and regularly changed fluids. He said he never had to replace anything except for rebuilding the transmission.
I purchased a 2002 Tahoe LS back in February 2017 and recently had some problems arising.
It started with a metal on metal sound coming from what I thought was my front driver side wheel. Everything I looked up sounded like the wheel bearing is wearing out. Recently, I started to think it might be the rear driver side wheel. It's hard to pinpoint, could be both. I drove on it with the noise for awhile thinking it was a bent dust shield as I had just purchased new tires.
Recently, however, the noise has increased in frequency and there is now a wailing noise as the vehicle is in motion. Like a fast, "wawawawa" that increases or decreases with speed.
In addition to the new noise, whenever I'm coming to a stop, there is a fairly loud and deep grinding noise and the vehicle shakes quite a bit. I don't feel the shaking in the brake pedal or the steering wheel so much. I primarily notice that my side mirror shakes a lot.
I'm about to go pull the wheels and see if I can figure out what it is. But, I wanted to reach out to the community to see if anyone is familiar with the symptoms.
Thanks in advance for all of your help. I've already learned a lot from reading through old threads and you all seems like a good bunch of people.
P
Vehicle specs & history:
2002 Tahoe LS, 4wd, 5.3 Vortec, 134.5 k miles
Purchased from original owner who kept it garaged and regularly changed fluids. He said he never had to replace anything except for rebuilding the transmission.
