Any ideas what this is? My 99 Dakota has been making a noise at the front left tire....I can only describe it as a "flapping" noise (at least thats the sound when I'm going fast enough, like over 30 mph), and the speed of the flapping is 100% correlated with the speed of the truck. By flapping, I mean--really like a huge bird's wings near the tire. At lower speeds, hard to describe, but i don't fell much vibration at any speed. Also, it's only noticeable when the windows are down, so it's not THAT loud. At first i thought there was a nail stuck in the tire.....but never saw one....and no air loss from the tire. Then i thought...maybe tire balancing? But i don't know if its the tire, ball joints, etc.. (i should stop speculating here...i really no nothing about ball joints, etc.). It's been going on a few months, but seems to be louder now.
I don't know where to bring the truck. I don't think bringing it to a "tire place" would be a good idea, since they'll be biased towards finding a "tire problem". I've been using a dodge dealer for most repairs, but for something like this, no (they'd charge around $40 for a "test drive". Also, whoever test drives it will have to actually sit in the driver seat...i don't think it's audible from the passenger seat. Thanks for nay feedback.