I have a clicking/ticking noise from the driver's side wheel of my car, and if i accellerate, it ticks, if i let off fast to where it puts pressure against it, it clicks...at first we thought it might be a brake pad shifting, then maybe some loose strut bolts or even loose lugs to allow the wheel to move on the studs, checked all that, even checked what i guess you might call tierod ends, everything seems to be tight, does anyone else have this issue or is it just me? any ideas, let me know.

 

The easiest way to tell if its a CV joint is: go to a big empty parking lot (or somewhere you can do an entire 360 turn with the wheel turned all the way one direction), then do exactly that, turn the wheel all the way to the right and move slowly forward, repeat for left side. You can have someone walk by the wheel to see if they can determine where it is coming from.

 

heres the thing...it only clicks once when accelerating...and when i let off it only clicks once...it sounds like when an a/c compressor kicks on and off...but thats not what it is..lol

 

Well if its not anything you said earlier I'm out of ideas. Sorry.

 

its all good

 

i have a clicking in my front left too...under dead stop to acceleration and dead stop to reverse acceleration... still havent diagnosed the problem yet i thought it might be my axel shaft inner seal...

 

sounds like you have the same problem i do. let me know if you find ou t what it is

 

i have this same exact problem has either of you figured out what it is. and my traction light keeps coming on and saying it needs service not sure if they are linked

 

^Probably the hub is bad and the sensor thinks you are losing traction on that wheel

 

thanks for the info i gotta get it to a dealer still under warranty might as well take advantage

 

Same problem here, but mine is in the front right. I am not sure what it could be.

 

Keep us up to date on how your visit goes, nightmare75. If you need any assistance, I'm available.

Best,
Sarah
GM Customer Service

 

Good morning Neodous,

If you want for me to check into whether you still have bumper to bumper warranty, send me the last 8 digits of your VIN. Depending on what the root cause of this is, repair may be covered.

Best,
Sarah
GM Customer Service

 

Mine has a similar noise near the driver side wheel, been like that for a long time, nothing seems bad and it has never gotten worse. Would like to find out what it is though.

 

All the cobalts tend to get that noise, just a single pop/click when the load changes. It never really gets any worse then that, I'm drawing a blank right now as to what most people do to help it, but it's a slack that develops over time and doesn't actually affect anything.

 

cv joints can make that noise from front to rear as well not just while turning

 

I have the same thing. When I was looking on here I found some people saying it was the control arm bushing, but I haven't gotten around to actually changing it out.

 

Last time i had a CV failure itwas on my old dodge shadow, But I believe the principal is the same. I put the front end up on jackstands, layed under it and slowly rotated the wheel. Keeping my spin perpendicular to the axle looking straight up listening for the clicking... Moving left/right latterly until the clicking sound was equal in both ears, looking straight up I was directly under my left inboard join.
I beleive that same process may work on just about any front wheel drive vehical.

 

I have the same problem exactly. I had solved the previous noise by replacing the control arm bushing and the sway bar link. Now I've got a single clicking noise. When my car is parked and I move the car back and forth I get a click from the front axle area. I can't figure out what it is, if anyone can answer this I would be forever grateful!

 

Hey guys. Did anyone find the answer to this problem? My car just started doing the foward/reverse small clicking noise. :/ Thanks in advance!

 

its the axle most likely ive been through a few and usually that was my first clue that it was going out

 

Had this since day one when I would take off forward or reverse one loud click with the car at 90k miles took it to the dealer replaced axels and seals no problem since

 

I have this sometimes when I accelerate in first and second. Getting back on the gas. Never knew what it might be.

 

Wonder if that could be my issue as well I get a similar clicking. Maybe some new cv axles would shut it up