[T3] knocking sound at a hard stop-front of car

[John L. Morgan IV]

I think it might be loose WHEEL BEARINGS!

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Cybernotchback <cybernotchback at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> From: John L. Morgan IV <emailjohnmorgan at gmail.com>
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> IT isnt a single clonk, but yet, it has a cadence to it, only when applying
> brakes.
> The speed slows as the car slows to a stop.
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> Since you have been swapping wheels lately I'd look into overtightened
> lugs.  This might be slightly warping your rotors, (or drums).
> I had a wheel shop use a torque stick that still overtightened (250flb +, I
> had to overcome the click by quite a bit) the lugs on one of two wheels on
> my H20 VW..  I had an inspection shop do the same a few weeks later as well,
> but this time I knew exactly what was wrong.  My symptoms were a minor
> rubbing all of the time, (easy to hear with the convertible top down, not so
> with it up), but hard rubbing and clonking with cadence as I applied the
> brakes, which slowed as I slowed.
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> Another possibility is that the lugs are too long and are dragging on the
> calipers, but you'd expect this to happen all of the time.
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