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I Think I have a front wheel bearing problem

My front passenger wheel is making grinding noise but I took wheel off to check brakes. The brakes seem ok but wheel makes bad noise when driving van. My son told me when I drove my van Front wheel on front passenger was wabeling. Do you think my wheel bearing has gone bad. I have a similar problem on my front passenger side as well. Wheel makes a roaring noiseat normal operating speeds. Strange thing is, only when taking a curve to the right. It doesn.t make any noise taking a left hand curve.

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    there is also a knocking from front left hand side of car I cant see anything broken

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Check wheel bering for play if there is no play , it doesn't mean that bearing is NOT bad its can still be dry and would be making that grinding sound you described Also check axle and see if boot is broken. That may be your problem also make sure that rotors are not gouged/scraped up and pads are good.Contact if you need more help and thanks for using FIX YA

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Change both wheel bearing before you get hurt.

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Jack the car up and check for wheel bearing play. If there is its 99% going to be the bearing. Its more then likely a sealed hub bearing and the whole hub will need replacing.

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