Harmonster

Last time I was in the canyons I heard a pronounced clicking from the front left wheel area. The sound would increase with load and with speed, but was not related to engine speed. Sounds like a classic wheel bearing failure to me. When I got home I pulled the wheel off, checked everything around the hub for looseness/rattling, and greased/torqued the center locks. Noise still there under high load right turns.

However, most of the shops I've enquired with have said they've "never seen this on a 997.2 GT3" and furthermore the bearing sounds fine when being spun in the air (no load though). That certainly doesn't mean it's never happened, but just to make myself feel better - has this happened to anyone else?

2010 GT3 non-RS
30k miles
3 track events in my ownership on RE71R
RSS tie-rods but otherwise stock suspension in the front (look to be in good shape, no knocking)

Thanks!

audipwr1

Dan - drag the brake and see if it goes away, if not its the wheel bearing.

The shop makes no sense, you are supposed to swap the bearings and total centerlock hardware every 15k miles if under some track use. Mine has had all 4 done in last 3k miles.

Spyerx

What shop?
wheel bearings fail. Not too big a job. A bit of work tho.

911racer

If there is more noise when turning one way than the other, then I would think it would be the bearing.

As the bearings go, they do not always make noise not under load. They will though, as the problem continues.

Thanks
Ed