Clicking from rear driver wheel. YouTube vid inside.

Emigrant · Post by **Emigrant** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:34 pm

My car has started to make this click noise.
Totally random and not all the time. On or off throttle, rolling, cornering can start it, but also stop it if it's clicking in a straight line. Like I said it's random and not constant.
I've had the disc off and checked shoes. All looks good and so did the drive shaft, however I still think it's the CV joint.
Anyone had this before?

Sounds exactly the same as this but not as bad.

https://youtu.be/EP86EQVAq5Q

Alan Gunn · Post by **Alan Gunn** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:37 pm

Can't help but it sounds a bit drastic.

Horizon · Post by **Horizon** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:53 pm

[quote="Emigrant"]
My car has started to make this click noise.
Totally random and not all the time. On or off throttle, rolling, cornering can start it, but also stop it if it's clicking in a straight line. Like I said it's random and not constant.
I've had the disc off and checked shoes. All looks good and so did the drive shaft, however I still think it's the CV joint.
Anyone had this before?

Sounds exactly the same as this but not as bad.

https://youtu.be/EP86EQVAq5Q
[/quote]

Someone had a noise from the propshaft support bearing, just a thought.

Emigrant · Post by **Emigrant** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:57 pm

Is coming from driver side but will check it out.

graemeX5 · Post by **graemeX5** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:09 am

Hi

It definitely sounds rhythmical which would seem to indicate it's something that is rotating, I.e propshaft, wheel bearing / cv joint are where I would check first.

You may need to have the car jacked up and axle stands placed under in order to be able to rotate the road wheels to hear the noise.

Graeme

Alan Gunn · Post by **Alan Gunn** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:28 am

Don't think it's the prop shaft it's not fast enough.
Be interesting to find out what it is.

Leslie · Post by **Leslie** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:03 am

Sounds like it's something catching on the brake shoes or a heat shield has fallen down on a drive. I know you checked the shoes but I heard a similar noise one time when too long a wheel bolt was fitted and was catching the brake shoes spring..wasn't an x5 though !

gazzx5 · Post by **gazzx5** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:48 pm

hi did you find the problem

Sm[]key · Post by **Sm[]key** » Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:52 pm

I've got the same noise from passenger rear wheel area, did anyone get to the bottom of this?

Sm[]key · Post by **Sm[]key** » Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:42 pm

Someone help please?

Driving lots of miles and concerned.....

Gcguru · Post by **Gcguru** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 4:25 am

id guess one of the rear brake pads has snapped a backing plate tang off and whenever drivers foot is off the brake the pad is riding up direction of rotor rotation...5mm or so...gravity and impact pops the pad back into place, and its a perpetual movement...until driver touches brake pedal or car itself applies pad drying during rain...needs a set of pads likely.

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