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Hello,
I was coming home after a very long night shift. I bumped into a poorly designed drain on a curve. I hit it extremely hard. My front, passenger side tire hit the cement drain opening/curb very hard. There is a metal scraping sound as the wheel goes around. I hit the curb 5 months ago.
I found a spot where part of the brake pad/caliper assembly rubs on the rotor. I changed the rotors and brake pads because it was overdue. The metal scraping sound is still there. My car drives ok. I have aluminum rims. How would I know if it was the rims or tires? Would a tire balancing machine tell me? The metal scraping digs a ring into my brake rotor on the passenger side, front rotor.
The “steering knuckle” is aluminum. I have purchased a wheel bearing just in case. I have it in my backseat. It is a 2003 Taurus.
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It’s probably the rim that is bent. The way you determine that is you jack up that corner of the car until the wheel is off the ground. Then with the emergency brake set and the back wheels chocked, you put the car in “D”. The wheel should start spinning. Now take a screwdriver and carefully approach the wheel rim with the screwdriver tip. When it touches it should go hisssssss. If it goes, hic, hic, hic, hic, then the wheel is bent.
Check the dust shield as College Man mentioned. I was in a similar situation before. I had 99 Taurus once, hit the curb hard and had that noise coming from the left front end, especially when turning. It turned out the dust shield was bent and rubbing against the rotor. Check it out.
I would definitely check to see if the wheel is bent as grg8888 has described. Also inspect all suspension components to see if they are also bent, as well as all around the rotor to see what is scraping into it.
Thanks Guys 🙂 I will look up the dust shield in the Haynes Manual for my car. I am at the library and they have 2 of them LOL.
Dust shield is on the inboard side and the groove is on the outboard side. I should have saved the rotor.
A bent wheel isn’t going to make a groove in the rotor, it turns at the same speed as the rotor. The only thing on the front side of the rotor really is the brake caliper and bracket. Perhaps the bracket is bent. I would lift the car, take the wheel off, and slowly turn that rotor by hand and see what it is rubbing against.
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