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My partner's son has a K-reg Peugeot 205 1.1 GL (72k on the clock), which is emitting a rumbling/faintly grinding noise when turning left, not that alarming but nonetheless audible, particularly at speed, and can be felt through the steering. It has the local independent Peugeot specialist baffled; he has replaced both drive shafts and the RHS front wheel bearing, but to no effect. Any clues?
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Does it have wide profile tyres? Perhaps the left tyre inside edge is chaffing against the inside of the wheel arch? Also does it have mud flaps, sometimes these can make noises when steering. Does the noise get stronger when turning left at speed, i.e. if the car rolls a bit, and what about driving very slowly? Whats the condition of the tyres, try fitting the spare to the front wheels are seeing if it changes things.
These are just simple ideas, otherwise i would have thought about the front wheel bearings, brake pad callipers, drive gaiters......
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I would suspect the front wheel bearings.
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I would suspect front wheel bearing failure. I had a 205 XLD, and it used to go through front wheel bearings at quite low milages i.e. 20-30000 miles, and I always knew because when I turned the steering wheel at speed, the noise changed, and resumed a faint whining noise when resuming a straight course. I couldnt feel it through the steering though. Is the LHS front wheel bearing definately OK?
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Assuming nothing is simply catching on something else near the front wheels/brakes.....
Then this is so much like a wheel bearing fault I wouldn't investigate further until the other wheel bearing had been replaced and the first new one checked to see it hadn't been damaged on fitting.
If that didn't solve it then comes the furrowed brow....
David W
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Thanks, folks, for all your help. The mechanic seems to have convinced himself that the problem is on the offside, but I agree that replacement of the nearside bearing looks like the sensible next step, especially given the reported vulnerability of bearings on these motors.
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Hope he gets the side right. I went through the painstaking DIY job of replacing a wheel bearing on my 205 without a hydraulic press (the impetuousness of youth) which took me hours only to discover that I had changed the wrong side!!
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Don't discount svpworld's suggestion that the noise might be coming from a mudflap (if it has them). My daughter's Peugeot 106 had a noise when turning to the right, such as when on a roundabout, that sounded exactly like a worn nearside front wheel bearing (ie. the bearing that's under load on righthand corners)
We took the car back to the independent dealer that we had just bought it from and the manager, a time-served mechanic, also thought it was the nearside wheel bearing, so he changed it. The noise was still there, so he changed the other side. Still no joy so he changed both rear wheel bearings. No different. Then we noticed that the rear nearside mudflap was ragged at the bottom where it had scraped the road on righthand corners!
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I think I\'m losing my brain cells. The mudflap on the Peugeot 106 was rubbing against the tyre, not the road. Probably something to do with the Peugeot\'s unusual suspension movement because there seemed to be quite a good clearance when the car was immobile.
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I had the same mudflap noise problem on my Pug 309.
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