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The answer to this one is dependant on front or rear and weather or not the car is front or rear drive. A typical bearing on the front of a rear drive car is a tapered roller type. A growling noise when the effected side is loaded with weight as in a turn may come and go as the vehicles weight is shifted from side to side. The rear bearings on a late model vehicle that is rear drive are mostly a non tapered roller design. These bearings usually begin with a whine in early stages of failure and progress to a growl as damage increases. As for the front drive vehicle, growling noise is typical for both front and rear bearings. The rear because they are tapered roller as discussed earlier, and the front because they are usually a ball bearing type which load differently than the roller type.

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ticking and/or clunking...if you hear it, it's too late.

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