Illinibird
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- Mike
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- retired Endodontist (root canal specialist) and Clinical Assistant Professor
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We drove home from my doctor appointment yesterday during a deluge of rain. We drove home on the expressway going about 40-50 MPH with heavy rain and poor visibility. I could hear the water flushing the rear wheel when we were driving through the storm but I didn't notice any sounds or vibration going the rest of the way home.
Today, when backing the car out I can feel some pulsations and then in forward the pulsations increase in intensity and there is a "thumping" in the passenger side rear wheel (like there is a flat tire with some of the rubber hitting the pavement as the tire rotates only the tire is fine). The thumping increases in speed as the car accelerates. I took the car back to my garage immediately and called my dealer. I'm taking it in tomorrow morning.
My first thought is that this is a brake problem on that wheel from being drenched with water. Any other ideas of what might be causing this? A loose piece of brake pad material stuck to rotor? Problem with the rear motor? I'm pretty upset as this is the first major thing wrong with the car.
Today, when backing the car out I can feel some pulsations and then in forward the pulsations increase in intensity and there is a "thumping" in the passenger side rear wheel (like there is a flat tire with some of the rubber hitting the pavement as the tire rotates only the tire is fine). The thumping increases in speed as the car accelerates. I took the car back to my garage immediately and called my dealer. I'm taking it in tomorrow morning.
My first thought is that this is a brake problem on that wheel from being drenched with water. Any other ideas of what might be causing this? A loose piece of brake pad material stuck to rotor? Problem with the rear motor? I'm pretty upset as this is the first major thing wrong with the car.
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