I test drove a '95 200 SE-R a few days ago. I heard two noises I couldn't identify. One was when I turned the steering wheel, even just a little. It was a strange whooshing sound. Think of howling wind in a horror movie; it sounded just like that. The power steering fluid was mostly full.
The second noise was a consistent swishing sound emanating from the rear-right wheel when the car moved. It swished a little at low speeds, a bit louder at higher speeds.
Any ideas?
Sounds like power steering pump, or maybe just the belt to the pump up front. In the rear, sounds like a bearing to me. In both cases, tell tale signs would be leaks -- power steering fluid is typically dark red, unless it's really dirty.
I have a sentra ser spec v and I have a similar sound on the steering, they always tell me at the dealer that its due to the fact that the wheels on the spec v are too wide for the cars frame. The second noise sounds like a wheel bearing!
Thanks for your help. Ballpark $ figure on cost to replace?
I just had an axle seal on an I30t replaced for about $200, which was about $175 in labor. Search the web for a wheel bearing for your car, and you could estimate the cost. Don't know exactly what's wrong, if anything, with the PS, so cannot help there.
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