I had my wheels powder coated a couple weeks ago. It could be that I just never heard it before because I've only owned it for a couple of months, but ever since I (and I do mean "I") put them back on, mostly in the mornings, I hear a pop from the front passengers wheel well like a tire rub or something when i turn sharp right. I did not change the wheels and they are factory other than the color. Anybody else experienced this?

 

...only when Jag took my right front wheel off to access the air filter box and then forgot to tighten the wheel nuts. I drove it like that for about a week or so, by the time I realised I had lost one nut and another had nearly come off

 

You were lucky - many decades ago when I was young afoolish I went pto pick my mother up from work after I'd bee faffing with the brakes and had only put the wheel nuts on finger tight (I was going to tighten them when I lowered the car off the jack but I forgot!). As soon as I started driving I heard the wheel rolling loose on the studs, and just before I reached the pickup point the front nearside wheel went bouncing down the road, hit a roadside tree and came straight back and hit my bonnet/hood! Oops! Luckily, the wheel nuts were restrained in the hubcap.

 

Lucky boy! Yeah well it felt odd from when I picked it up, then as days went on I started hearing things when I was turning, but I usually have the stereo blasting so I wasnt fully on to it, but then the creak when cornering got worse, and then it started making a squeak squeak squeak noise (actually I think I posted here trying to figure it out). So then it got so bad I got a mobile mechanic out and he found the nuts all loose, one just about off and one gone.

The bearings went in the front wheel shortly after that, possibly secondary damage from running on a wobbly wheel but I'm not sure. I should give a shout out to my local Jag team though, after nearly wrecking my car they did fall all over themselves to make it good and paid for the new spline nuts which I had to order in, and for the new wheel caps I treated myself to at the time, these things happen and a valuable lesson was learned by all.