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Race sports vs saloons castle Combe

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http://youtu.be/rdtlyfqBPZc

Think the noise is wheel bearing or tyre related will find out this weekend
Came 1st in class and 3rd over all, think there was about 30 cars in the race. Can see thee speed difference when lapping the slower cars
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Epic

Thanks for sharing
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Enjoyed that, great drive.
Your Coupe pulls so well out of those corners and bounces around like a go kart, like you say when passing the backmarkers gives a sense of how fast you are.
Congrats on the result.
(that wheel bearing noise would make me nervous, did you trace it yet?)
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Great driving and car goes like a rocket
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Hopefully find out tonight it also sounded like tyres but slicks to make that noise is a weird
And thanks, yeh feels like a go kart in some of the corners defiantly bumpy lol
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prebble wrote:Hopefully find out tonight it also sounded like tyres but slicks to make that noise is a weird
And thanks, yeh feels like a go kart in some of the corners defiantly bumpy lol
Its not the front bottom arm balljoints rubbing on the inside of the discs is it?

Must admit it sounds like the rear tyres on some of the vid
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Cant beat a bit of racing :drive:
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Awesome just awesome, very well done :D
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Nicely done a good bit of racing :)
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It's coming from the rear and are we pretty sure it's tyres, we brought used one from touring car guys so maybe a dodgy tyre as we have used the same wheels and same size tyres with no problem, all we have changed is the rubber
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Wow your car is bouncy, thought mine was bad.

Great video though mate,

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If its a wheel bearing that loud, you can raise the car on a ramp and spin the rears wheels by hand and you will hear it, the fronts you can drive with it in the air and should be dead easy to find, if its tyres there will obviously be no noise on a ramp, that loud should be easy to diagnose.
For tyres to make that noise it should show up on inspection to, feathering or out of shape tyres can create that noise but again should be easy to see the fault, good luck.
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Will try that thank you :)
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What were the 2 cars that passed you at the start..?

Thanks,

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prebble wrote:Will try that thank you :)
Sorry I am sure you know what your doing, but did you find the cause?
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whats the light having a heart attack on the dash?
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