Jake Speed
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- May 27, 2017
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- East Bay Area, CA
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- 2019 Civic Type R, 2017 CR-V AWD Touring
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On Friday, my sixth day of ownership, I took my buddy out to lunch & we heard a horrible screeching/scraping sound coming from the front left wheel. Did a ton of visual inspection, couldn’t see anything amiss. It ended up being really intermittent. For a while it was only when turning left, then it was only when turned to the lock either direction in reverse.
Drove from work to my local dealership, but all the techs had gone home, so went this morning for drop-in, and $88 later, they confirmed it was a piece of gravel stuck in the “left front backing plate”.
This isn’t a shock; there just happens to be a ton of gravel on the streets in my neighborhood lately. I do feel like this car either picks up a lot or it’s somehow louder than I ever recall gravel being before.
When I picked it up, a tech passing by said, “Yeah, get ready for more of that.”
I haven’t yet searched, but I’m guessing this is a known issue. I’ll search & read, but I’m curious to understand why, and if there are any effective mitigations.
I mostly just wanted to chime in with this as a data point, in case it is a known issue.
Drove from work to my local dealership, but all the techs had gone home, so went this morning for drop-in, and $88 later, they confirmed it was a piece of gravel stuck in the “left front backing plate”.
This isn’t a shock; there just happens to be a ton of gravel on the streets in my neighborhood lately. I do feel like this car either picks up a lot or it’s somehow louder than I ever recall gravel being before.
When I picked it up, a tech passing by said, “Yeah, get ready for more of that.”
I haven’t yet searched, but I’m guessing this is a known issue. I’ll search & read, but I’m curious to understand why, and if there are any effective mitigations.
I mostly just wanted to chime in with this as a data point, in case it is a known issue.
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