I am getting an odd noise when the car is coasting, proportionate to speed, and it stops when I apply the brakes. It sounds like woom woom woom etc, essentially like a brake is rubbing or something. Any guesses? It seems to be coming from the drivers side (Australian).

 

OK, so I took the car out to checki and washed off the calipers, it is like a creaking noise each turn of the wheel. It doesnt sound flash, that's for sure and it seems to be getting worse. It sounds like an old metal door on rusty hinges being opened.

 

Dunno, but all I can think is if it stops when you apply the brakes it's a brake pad gone funny or maybe a stuck brake caliper slide pin.
More likely to be front than rear.
Try whipping the front right wheel off and spinning the brake rotor by hand and see what you can hear if anything.
There should be little or no resistance or noise, at most just a very light rub of the brake pad(s) on the rotor, any more than that and something is wrong.
Just thought of something else - you could have a stone or similar stuck between the splash guard (such as it is) and the rotor.

 

hmmmm, do I try to take off a wheel for the first time in 30 years....or is that what Jag assistance is for?

 

I wonder if it's the unscrewing Torx bolt that holds the brake shield on? If it is, it'll damage the back of the disc if left unfixed.

 

I'll get the brake guy to come out tomorrow, it seems brake related, hopefully a quick fix.

 

Come on! That should be against forum rules! :-)

 

My guess is that the driver's side brake is rubbing on something. Probably a stuck caliper or gummed-up guides. When was the last time you serviced your brakes?

Or maybe a giant poisonous man-eating spider stuck in the wheel? Have you driven over a flock (?) of them recently on your Australian countryside drive?

 

The car was only serviced last week! But I have the R1 rotors and reading up on it aftermarket rotors can lead to this kind of thing.

Not unusual to find redback spiders (or black widows) around the cars, at one stage I could go out at night and kill 10 of them around the house especially on a hot night. Not so much now, they seem to have been knocked over by geckos.

 

Could just be a bent dust shield. Easily bent away from the rotor by hand.

 

You wouldnt believe this but it was actually all the nuts on the wheel were loose and one had come off. I have my suspicions about when it happened - you take the wheel off to get in at the air filter boxes, correct?

 

No need to take the wheel off to replace the air filter (been there done that) but if you want to replace the air box it's easier if you remove the wheel arch liner which in turn means you have to remove the wheel.
Check the other side quick!

 

All other wheels are fine! I only had it in for a service 3 weeks ago and they had it overnight for a couple of things. I actually thought that there was something odd going on ever since (you could only hear the creak when you are up against something bouncing the sound back) but figured it must be OK since it just came from them. Hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

It's to avoid this kind of issue that I follow the rule of "on and tight, or not on". It's too easy to put something together loosely, get called away for something, then come back and see that it's "all put together" and move on. It's even worse when there is more than one person working on things.

 

The joy continues, I cant find the spline nuts to suit the wheels and the car here (unless they are the same as Mustang ones) so I will have to drive it with only 4 nuts until I can get some from the US.

 

The moral of the story - check your nuts regularly or you could lose one!

 

You've been lucky, when I were a lad I drove a Ford Prefect with loose wheel nuts and they all unscrewed completely in under a mile and the wheel flew off down the road. Bit of a pig to get the jack under the car when it's sitting on its shock absorber!