Hey guys i currently own a 2006 TL and i have recently noticed that my car started to make this click sound out of no where. I started to notice that there is a click sound coming for the driver's side front tire when i brake at slow speed, usually going from a stop sign to a stop sign. I havent heard the click when going at faster speeds and braking and its usually one to two clicks. I also hear the click when im pulling into my drive way or parking into a parking spot and its usually heard when i turn the wheel and move the car slowly and change the direction of the wheel as well. I suspect it could definetly not be the brakes i suspect because it started happening before i replaced by front pads and resurfaced the rotors.......Have any of you experienced this problem or know what may be causing it???? Thanks

 

could be CV joints- whats your current mileage?
is the car lowered wildly? do you do burnouts?

Usually if you open the windows and do a full lock turn of the wheels and slowly move forward from stopped- click click click- thats CV failure
Try the other direction - does it do it both ways?

 

Yea my current mileage is 30K and no the car is not lowered and i dont do burnouts, yea the click happens both directions and i was as well suspecting a CV joint failure.....so i guess i should go to the dealer and complain about it because when i went they gave me the "its a TL thing" story.....

 

then have them bring another tl up, and you can drive it with a tech to listen

 

sounds like axle or a tie rod....

 

what do u mean by the axle or tie rod.....well i mean the deal is that this freakin clicking is now always a constant, i dont ALWAYS hear it when i turn the wheels and move the car slowly eaither forward or back, but ive noticed that its heard more dominantly when i change the direction perhaps lock to lock or so and there is definetly 2 to 3 clicks and even when i brake sometimes its 2 to 3 clicks coming from the drivers side wheel, so i mean im still unsure what exactly it could be......anyone suspect anything besides the cv joints?? Thanks

 

take it to a suspension and alignment shop
They can put it on the rack and look for other things, and test it for cv problem

If acura has physically inspected the car in the shop-not just talked with you about it,
if something was wrong they should have found it- but things do slip past the tech or not act up right then.

Siince its gotten worse its not - a TL thing-
its a problem that needs someone who cares,, to look at it

If you have a full warranty- go back to acura- otherwise the shop that checks it can find the prob and fix it

While unusual to have cv failure at low miles- the roads today are brutal on parts,
hit a pothole and you can bend a control arm or destroy a tie-rod end
its unreal~

 

Have you had the wheels off and checked the brakes?

 

Yea im gonna take it back to the acura dealer on saturday and have them take a good look at it because yea its definetly not a normal thing, yes it actually started happend before i changed the brake pads and resurfaced the rotors so i suspect its not a brake problem but ill have them really look into, thanks for the advice and heads up

 

Sounds like dried up caliper slide pins to me. Who did your brakes? Did they remove/clean/lube the caliper pins? If they dry up, they will "pop" when you hit the brakes due to slight binding.

Let us know what you find. I'm curious..

Caliper pins are #11 and 17 in this diagram.

 

Check to make sure the lugs nuts are torqued to the proper specification. The wheel might make a noise like that if they are loose.

 

i meant thats what it sounds like, .... was my sentence ending. have the axles ever be out. rust can form in the splinds and cause clicking. if the axle bolts are not tq to spec they will click when turning and braking. i would clean the splindes and lude them. then tq the nuts.

 

yea im definetly gonna mention all of the possibilities to the dealer when i go on saturday and make sure they do the job correctly, thanks for the feedback guys and i will write down what i find out in the next few days

 

Having exact problem on my 04' TL, pass side front clicks at low speed and clunks noticeably over bumps. Sounds like bad suspension bushing or shock bushing. (just guessing for now, will take to shop and post findings.)

 

Could also be the steering rack. I had something similar to the OP and my steering rack was replaced under warranty.

 

did you find out what it was? my 05 acura is having what sounds to be the exact same problem, taking into shop sat. hoping its something small like the caliper pins like trew said...

 

i had a very similar problem, after the car was warm when i was parking the right front side make a clicking/creaking noise when turning the wheel at a slow speed. turned out to be the power steering pump and it was replaced under warranty at the stealer.

 

has any one found the source of this problem yet, or perhaps a fix, because i havent got the chance to go to the dealer yet but will try this week, could it be the brake pads or the shims perhaps, because if it clicks on me when i back into a parking spot or forward or when i turn the wheel from one lock position to the next and it only clicks once or twice i doubt its the cv or axle because it would click constantly no?

 

you may only hear the cv click a few times then speed overcomes noise and usually you are letting out the steering input as speed increase- lessening the load on the bearing
If its the inner side bearing, thats even harder to detect

Putting it on the lift and running it, while the tech uses a special tipped stethascope
(no kidding) and checks each cv for noise

Brakes dont usually make click click noises but anything is possible
How do you drive it??

 

The OP says it's usually one or 2 clicks. Maybe a pop might be a better description. This is why I suggested the caliper slide pins.

You should really take it in and find out what it is. We'd like to know what the problem actually was.

 

Well it took some time but i finally went to the dealer today again and this time i went to another one and not the same one i went last time where they told me the noise was normal, and it turns out to be a failing drive shaft so they are going to order the part and replace it under warranty

 

The noise will still be there after the axle is replaced, It is the brake pads clicking. If you look at the pic that was posted.
Look at the pad and you will see a square piece at the end, that piece rides in the caliper. When you hit the brakes the pad moves up a tiny bit and bumps the shim that is in there. That is the click you are hearing.

 

yea ur right after they replaced the axel the noise is still there. Well yea ur right i also think its the brakes but if that was truly the case wouldnt it just be one click or so, because in my case when i brake its usualy 2-3 clicks, then when i let off the brake and press on the gas there is another series of 2-3 clicks, today i was actually standing in a spot up a small hill and when i turned the wheels from lock to lock u can hear the click also but usualy one click, not to mention that after some time driving the car the steering gets extremly tight when i try parking the car or so its very hard to turn it and the noise seems to be coming from the wheelwell area or somewhere up front, could it be a steering rack problem or something?

 

Or steering pump issue?

 

If its the sound I am thinking of THE SOUND IS PERFECTLY NORMAL.


These are freefloating calipers, which means the pads move back and forth in the calipers and when you go back and forth at low speeds they make sound. Its normal.

Marcus