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Strange Noise from Rear of Vehicle

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Tarrant64

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Hey guys, I have a strange problem and thought I'd get some comments. I am going to try and get it to a shop this weekend to have it looked at, but thought maybe I'd have a better idea of what I'm talking about if I describe the problem.


When I'm drive, from about 25mph-75mph there is a strange noise coming from the rear of my car. I thought, maybe the tires causing strange road noise, but I'll describe what I'm hearing.

It's like a wind tunnel, or as if I had my sunroof cracked and you know how it is when you accelerate the wind noise gets a little louder. Well take it down a few notches, make it seem like there is a faint "whine" or wind kind of noise, and then think of it as coming from the back windshield. I tried rolling down my windows and listening, but I couldn't hear anything, just when I'm inside the car.

This has been like this for about a week. Just yesterday I got worried because the noise got a little bit of a tone now. Kind of as if I had a broken exhaust, but not really. *sigh*. The sound was still very faint, but had more of a deeper tone, so now I was thinking, OK, maybe it's from the exhaust. But I've heard a broken exhaust before, and I'd KNOW it if something was wrong with it. This just seems like strange road noise.

Any thoughts or idea, or something I can tell a mechanic to look at would be nice. I think I will have about an extra $200 in the next couple weeks. I will drop some cash now to have it looked at, and if anything needs fixed, I hope it won't cost more than that.

What do you guys think?

TIA!!!
 
It sounds like a rear wheel bearings problem. Honda has a Service Bulletin notice about it for the 6th gen Accords especially 98s and 99s. I found a link here http://www.driveaccord.net/forums/showthread.php?t=747

I have had to fix quite a few 6th gen Accords with this problem. In a few cases it turned out to be the tires. Here's what I recommend:

Rotate your tires and drive around at the speeds where you would hear the noise (25-75mph). If it is still present then it's the wheel bearing which is a whole assembly hub, not hard to replace yourself, but may require herculean strength depending on your lug nuts/wheel bots etc. It costs about 70-100 dollars per wheel bearing hub (you need two) plus labor.

Also check your brakes if you're getting this fixed.

EDIT: You need one wheel bearing per rear wheel, Honda recommends you replace both but in some cases I was able to figure out which wheel bearing was affected and replaced just that one.
 
Great, thanks a lot!

I have free tire rotations are Firestone, so I will take it there to get it done.

My brakes need checked anyways so I will have that looked into as well, if not just replaced as is anyways.

 
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