Hello All,
I am getting a noise from what seems to be the front right side of the car(could be wrong). Its a whining noise, thats constant with speed, and continues with the engine on or off but the car moving.

If I hit the brakes, or turn the wheel, or put clutch pedal in or out, it remains. It seems to be a whirring noise, no grinding or scraping. I'll try to get a vid to capture the sound. Its almost like a bad power steering pump noise,,,,or a belt pulley. I'm running a vortech S/C but it makes the noise with the engine shut off and coasting downhill.


Wheel bearing? I searched and those noises seem to be a grinding sound.

Ideas?

Thanks!

 

Sounds like bad accessory belt and/or pulley bearing. No hydraulic power steering pump, on these cars.

 

In my experience the whirring noise has been bad wheel bearings.

 

Haha..I.know there is no steering pump. It just has that similar sound.

And,.the noise is present when engine is.off, but car is moving.

 

Thanks Soviet. That seems to be my impression,.but I'll try to capture the sound today and upload.

 

Jack up the front wheels and spin them. You'll hear a bad bearing.

95% of the time an S2000 has a bad wheel bearing it will be in the rear.

 

Thanks Billman.

If its the rear, will I hear that as clearly when jacked up and spun?

 

Hear and even feel it. Notchy, grainy feel.

 

Thanks all.

Getting on a lift to check all wheels this weekend. I'll report back.

 

If it's not a wheel bearing it could be tire(s)...some do get quite noisy. Hard to say without hearing it though.