Grinding Noise After Acceleration: What Could Be Causing It?

When you accelerate your vehicle and notice a grinding noise, it can be unsettling and concerning. However, in most cases, this type of noise is not caused by a critical failure of the engine or transmission. Instead, it's often related to wear and tear on certain components. One of the most common culprits behind this type of noise is the CV joints.

CV joints are responsible for transmitting power from the drivetrain to the wheels. When you accelerate, you're putting additional stress on these joints, which can cause them to wear down over time. This wear and tear can lead to a grinding or clunking noise, especially when you're going up hills or driving at high speeds. Fortunately, replacing CV joints is generally a relatively inexpensive repair compared to other potential causes of the noise.

Wear and Tear on Wheel Bearings

Another possibility behind the grinding noise is wear and tear on the wheel bearings. Like CV joints, wheel bearings are subjected to increased stress when you accelerate, which can cause them to wear down faster than normal. However, it's worth noting that this type of noise tends to be more pronounced at lower speeds, such as when cruising or driving on flat terrain.

The Best Approach: Replacing CV Joints

In the case of a grinding noise, replacing the CV joints is often the most straightforward solution. This repair typically involves removing the old joints and installing new ones, which can be done for a relatively modest cost. However, it's essential to identify the correct replacement parts to ensure that the job is done correctly.

Wheel Bearings: Not the Only Option

In some cases, the grinding noise may not be caused by CV joints or wheel bearings. For example, if you've recently replaced the hub assembly and brakes, the noise could still be present. In such cases, it's essential to investigate other potential causes of the noise, including the front differential itself.

Traction Control System: Don't Panic

If your vehicle is equipped with traction control system (TCS), it may trigger a warning light on your dashboard when there are issues with the system. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that there's something wrong with the TCS itself. In most cases, the light will go out once you've addressed any underlying issues.

Throttle Body Maintenance: No Check Engine Light

If you've recently performed throttle body maintenance and haven't triggered a check engine light, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Throttle body cleaning can sometimes affect the readings on your vehicle's onboard computer, but this is usually just a temporary issue that resolves itself once you clean the dirt off.

Full Synthetic Oil: Not a Permanent Solution

While using full synthetic oil may help to reduce wear and tear on your engine, it's not a permanent solution. In fact, even with synthetic oil, it's essential to change your engine oil regularly to maintain optimal performance and prevent damage to your vehicle. The frequency of oil changes depends on various factors, including the type of engine you have and the manufacturer's recommendations.

Engine Oil Change Frequency: It Depends

The recommended oil change interval varies depending on the make and model of your vehicle, as well as the type of oil being used. For example, some engines may require more frequent oil changes due to oil dilution problems or other issues. In general, it's a good idea to consult with a mechanic or follow the manufacturer's guidelines for oil change intervals.

Preparing for Long-Term Road Trips

When embarking on long-term road trips, such as the one you mentioned from September to December, it's essential to plan ahead and prepare your vehicle accordingly. Changing your engine oil before the trip is generally recommended, especially if you're using synthetic oil. Additionally, consider discussing your maintenance schedule with a mechanic or checking your vehicle's manual for recommendations on how often to change other fluids and components.

The Importance of Regular Maintenance

Regular maintenance is essential for extending the life of your vehicle and preventing costly repairs down the road. By staying on top of routine maintenance tasks, such as oil changes and tire rotations, you can help ensure that your vehicle runs smoothly and efficiently.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe new chevy corvette the mid-engine one has an embarrassing quality issue didn't get the stitching right on no the right stitching on the center console that stands out it doesn't run smooth its kind of wavy showing guess what poor quality control what a surprise GM with poor quality control I've been warning people about this stuff for decades wow this is their little flagship car and this is this fancy one the three LT trim and they start at seventy two thousand dollars they can't even get the stitching right away via was poorly done when he went higher up on a dashboard we showed that the turn strip that follows into the door that doesn't match up either I mean just poor quality control I'll never forget years ago another GM project Saturn I had a customer who strangely enough her last name was Toyota and she always on Toyota's but she decided to buy American and buy a sad or when it came out so she comes over into Saturn I look at it I said what do you think of a Saturn she says oh it's new but I'd say so far I'd say it's about 70% of my last Toyota cuz she said look at the dash and you could see the dash was glutes kind of sideways it wasn't it perfectly straight and that was another GM product I mean he decided let's create the name Saturn and GM ended up pulling the plug on that dude they don't make those anymore it just shows the lack of quality that the company has basically if they got these flagship cars coming out like that and they're coming off the manufacture floor and the guys don't look at it and see jeez that's kind of wavy that doesn't match up there the lack of quality and a lack of chucking things too I mean you're not gonna see this in sight as much as I not per se DS they look good you get in what everything matches up the leather spines but letting crap slide through the way it looks it may break down as an age and be a really complex but they look really good sell these things in on seventy two thousand bucks up and the stitching doesn't even match that just shows the underlying lack of quality the general Motors has or doesn't have now here we go with some of the biggest nonsense that I've read in years people are not reporting that the virus lockdown is convincing consumers that electric vehicles are the future saying that well now that people are stuck at home they're reconsidering the world's being polluted and we're gonna buy electric vehicles and come on people let's get real it's kind of like one of those Nor'easters they got weather coming from both front they got pandemic on one side and they got a gigantic economic recession that's gonna be worldwide coming on the other side the last thing people are gonna be doing in the near future it's been in a whole bunch of money on proven electrical cars people are gonna have tight money supplies they're not gonna go out and spend a bunch of money that they don't have a lot of people been laid off are getting jobs that pay less hey maybe now they're working in a warehouse setting up deliveries and stuff they're not gonna have forty fifty to buy an electric car if you look at the other aspects of the recession the price of oil is down what is the incentive for people to get on electric on when gasoline is gonna be cheap there are millions and millions of cars everywhere they have internal combustion engines these things are not gonna just disappear and everybody design vision that I'm going to drive an electric car now yeah well they got to be paid for let's live in the real world people let's not live in as fantasy that you think people just sitting around there thinking I'm gonna buy electric on an island made me change my whole philosophy of life dad is not gonna happen let's get real I live in a real world I see what happens in real world I don't live in some fantasy world that people are gonna sit well I thought about it and now I'm going to just like if you remember what happened during a 911 the last time people said all people are thinking about their lives differently now that the shock tragedy and everyone's gonna quit the advertising company selling things to people huh after went over the advertising companies made even more money so hey let's look at the real world people not in some fantasy world Nick 20 asks us Scotty I call the Auto Zone for a fuel filter from my 2000 table cameras they say it's not serviceable as it's part of the fuel pumps my gas tank is it a lifetime BS that I can't change it they did put all the fuel filters to almost every car inside the gas tank kind of a stupid idea but that's engineers for you let's put it someplace it's hard to get to all filters eventually clogged up from age from wear-and-tear you get a little crud in the gas tank it's gonna go in they do have to be changed at some point in time get into that camera isn't that hard you take the back seat out there's a little access panel you can get the pump assembly yeah there are aftermarket places you can buy just the filter take it apart replace the filter and put it on it's a pain you still gotta take the back seat and everything out but I still advise you should do it every 60,000 miles or so because you don't want to get clogged up build up pressure because then the pump will burn out now if you like gambling don't change it then one day when the pump goes out you're gonna place the whole thing but if you don't change that filter odds are the pump is gonna have a shorter lifespan and some of those pumps costs five six hundred dollars as the filter clogs up it creates extra back pressure and the pump has to work harder so will burn out faster me I still tell people and take them out changer because ultimately of course is BS everything works out eventually and if something has a filter in it why is the filter there they say you never need to change you never would need a filter because that means there's nothing clogging a lot but there is stuff and eventually the filtration material just wears out do like anything else nothing lasts forever Charles son Scotty I got a 98 Jeep Grand Cherokee v8 all time four-wheel drive it's a front-end grinding noise or when I go 25 miles up and I let it cruise the noise goes away when I accelerate it makes noise I bought new hub wheel bearings and brakes but the noise is there what could cause it and how can I fix odds are it has to do with your CV joints there that's the most common thing they wear when you accelerate you're straining them then they make the noise you just cruise you're not straining them the noise goes away I would have told you don't waste your time with the wheel bearings because wheel bearings the faster you go the louder the noise so wouldn't matter if you're accelerating or not if you're going 30 they go rule and if you're going 60 go louder they get louder the faster you go I would have told you that wasn't the case you can get those joints replaced at a decent price go right ahead because some of those someone else assembly you got to replace the whole something it's gonna cost you a thousands of dollars and I don't know if you want to spend that money on something that's at that OH twenty-two years old right do you really want to spend that kind of money and the other thing is it could be the front differential itself going out that can make a noise and that would be a very expensive repair too generally it's the CV joints that are going bad out of those things they'll start making a grinding noise only when you accelerate I see that all time Marino 95 says I performed a throttle body maintenance of my 2013 Toyota Tundra not a check engine light attract control I design any help on how to clear these sometimes when you clean the throttle that's gonna affect the readings say there was carbon in it well now there's no carbon it's it's different and it might turn a check engine light if you want if you got a scan tool just plug a scan tool line and say reset codes yes yes I don't reset them it'll be gone if you didn't do any kind of damage you just clean the dirt off and remember to unplug the sensors before you put the spray in you can just drive it and it should just reset itself by itself now the reason that check engine light and traction control lights are on is because that's a software thing with all the Toyotas once the check engine light comes on it'll also trip the track control because if the computer sees there's a problem in the car it automatically turns the traction control system off and then that light comes on so there's nothing wrong with the traction control thing if it came on right after you cleaned it and the check engine light came on it was a check engine light just tripping that there's nothing wrong with that system you just need to reset it hope that you didn't do any damage to the electronics anytime you do cleaning on electronics and stuff like that always unplugging them or take a battery terminal off first Honda he is so Scotty I'm going on a long trip for three months September to December said I changed my engine haul before or after the trip frequent should I change it if I'm using full synthetic oil to begin with it's always a good idea to change the oil before you go on a trip the oils dirty you know I mean if you've already changed that don't worry about it but if you're nearing it's time to change these anyways change it before the trip now as for how frequently should change the oil you didn't say what kind of car you have that depends on a lot of things I don't go by a lot of the manufacturers suggestions because they don't give a crap if your engine wears out too early they want to sell you another car anyway if I had something like a Toyota or Honda I changed the engine oil generally every seven thousand miles with full synthetic oil if use normal oil you could change it every four or five thousand miles but there are some engines out there that I wouldn't go that far I would change it even with full synthetic oil every 5,000 miles because they're notorious for having where inside that Honda earth dreams engine that has oil dilution problems I definitely changed that at least every 5,000 miles even with full synthetic laws so you got to realize what vehicle you have what engine you have then ask guy like me what do you suggest you to do because it's different for different engines a lot of these guys jump on the bandwagon to manufacture so you only have to ginger oil every 10,000 miles yeah then go to him when you got 80,000 miles in your cars burning oil and they'll say oh that's normal that they burn oil at that mile of jail it's not if you changed it all the time you shouldn't burn anyway so if you never want to miss another one of my new Chi repair videos remember to ring that Bellthe new chevy corvette the mid-engine one has an embarrassing quality issue didn't get the stitching right on no the right stitching on the center console that stands out it doesn't run smooth its kind of wavy showing guess what poor quality control what a surprise GM with poor quality control I've been warning people about this stuff for decades wow this is their little flagship car and this is this fancy one the three LT trim and they start at seventy two thousand dollars they can't even get the stitching right away via was poorly done when he went higher up on a dashboard we showed that the turn strip that follows into the door that doesn't match up either I mean just poor quality control I'll never forget years ago another GM project Saturn I had a customer who strangely enough her last name was Toyota and she always on Toyota's but she decided to buy American and buy a sad or when it came out so she comes over into Saturn I look at it I said what do you think of a Saturn she says oh it's new but I'd say so far I'd say it's about 70% of my last Toyota cuz she said look at the dash and you could see the dash was glutes kind of sideways it wasn't it perfectly straight and that was another GM product I mean he decided let's create the name Saturn and GM ended up pulling the plug on that dude they don't make those anymore it just shows the lack of quality that the company has basically if they got these flagship cars coming out like that and they're coming off the manufacture floor and the guys don't look at it and see jeez that's kind of wavy that doesn't match up there the lack of quality and a lack of chucking things too I mean you're not gonna see this in sight as much as I not per se DS they look good you get in what everything matches up the leather spines but letting crap slide through the way it looks it may break down as an age and be a really complex but they look really good sell these things in on seventy two thousand bucks up and the stitching doesn't even match that just shows the underlying lack of quality the general Motors has or doesn't have now here we go with some of the biggest nonsense that I've read in years people are not reporting that the virus lockdown is convincing consumers that electric vehicles are the future saying that well now that people are stuck at home they're reconsidering the world's being polluted and we're gonna buy electric vehicles and come on people let's get real it's kind of like one of those Nor'easters they got weather coming from both front they got pandemic on one side and they got a gigantic economic recession that's gonna be worldwide coming on the other side the last thing people are gonna be doing in the near future it's been in a whole bunch of money on proven electrical cars people are gonna have tight money supplies they're not gonna go out and spend a bunch of money that they don't have a lot of people been laid off are getting jobs that pay less hey maybe now they're working in a warehouse setting up deliveries and stuff they're not gonna have forty fifty to buy an electric car if you look at the other aspects of the recession the price of oil is down what is the incentive for people to get on electric on when gasoline is gonna be cheap there are millions and millions of cars everywhere they have internal combustion engines these things are not gonna just disappear and everybody design vision that I'm going to drive an electric car now yeah well they got to be paid for let's live in the real world people let's not live in as fantasy that you think people just sitting around there thinking I'm gonna buy electric on an island made me change my whole philosophy of life dad is not gonna happen let's get real I live in a real world I see what happens in real world I don't live in some fantasy world that people are gonna sit well I thought about it and now I'm going to just like if you remember what happened during a 911 the last time people said all people are thinking about their lives differently now that the shock tragedy and everyone's gonna quit the advertising company selling things to people huh after went over the advertising companies made even more money so hey let's look at the real world people not in some fantasy world Nick 20 asks us Scotty I call the Auto Zone for a fuel filter from my 2000 table cameras they say it's not serviceable as it's part of the fuel pumps my gas tank is it a lifetime BS that I can't change it they did put all the fuel filters to almost every car inside the gas tank kind of a stupid idea but that's engineers for you let's put it someplace it's hard to get to all filters eventually clogged up from age from wear-and-tear you get a little crud in the gas tank it's gonna go in they do have to be changed at some point in time get into that camera isn't that hard you take the back seat out there's a little access panel you can get the pump assembly yeah there are aftermarket places you can buy just the filter take it apart replace the filter and put it on it's a pain you still gotta take the back seat and everything out but I still advise you should do it every 60,000 miles or so because you don't want to get clogged up build up pressure because then the pump will burn out now if you like gambling don't change it then one day when the pump goes out you're gonna place the whole thing but if you don't change that filter odds are the pump is gonna have a shorter lifespan and some of those pumps costs five six hundred dollars as the filter clogs up it creates extra back pressure and the pump has to work harder so will burn out faster me I still tell people and take them out changer because ultimately of course is BS everything works out eventually and if something has a filter in it why is the filter there they say you never need to change you never would need a filter because that means there's nothing clogging a lot but there is stuff and eventually the filtration material just wears out do like anything else nothing lasts forever Charles son Scotty I got a 98 Jeep Grand Cherokee v8 all time four-wheel drive it's a front-end grinding noise or when I go 25 miles up and I let it cruise the noise goes away when I accelerate it makes noise I bought new hub wheel bearings and brakes but the noise is there what could cause it and how can I fix odds are it has to do with your CV joints there that's the most common thing they wear when you accelerate you're straining them then they make the noise you just cruise you're not straining them the noise goes away I would have told you don't waste your time with the wheel bearings because wheel bearings the faster you go the louder the noise so wouldn't matter if you're accelerating or not if you're going 30 they go rule and if you're going 60 go louder they get louder the faster you go I would have told you that wasn't the case you can get those joints replaced at a decent price go right ahead because some of those someone else assembly you got to replace the whole something it's gonna cost you a thousands of dollars and I don't know if you want to spend that money on something that's at that OH twenty-two years old right do you really want to spend that kind of money and the other thing is it could be the front differential itself going out that can make a noise and that would be a very expensive repair too generally it's the CV joints that are going bad out of those things they'll start making a grinding noise only when you accelerate I see that all time Marino 95 says I performed a throttle body maintenance of my 2013 Toyota Tundra not a check engine light attract control I design any help on how to clear these sometimes when you clean the throttle that's gonna affect the readings say there was carbon in it well now there's no carbon it's it's different and it might turn a check engine light if you want if you got a scan tool just plug a scan tool line and say reset codes yes yes I don't reset them it'll be gone if you didn't do any kind of damage you just clean the dirt off and remember to unplug the sensors before you put the spray in you can just drive it and it should just reset itself by itself now the reason that check engine light and traction control lights are on is because that's a software thing with all the Toyotas once the check engine light comes on it'll also trip the track control because if the computer sees there's a problem in the car it automatically turns the traction control system off and then that light comes on so there's nothing wrong with the traction control thing if it came on right after you cleaned it and the check engine light came on it was a check engine light just tripping that there's nothing wrong with that system you just need to reset it hope that you didn't do any damage to the electronics anytime you do cleaning on electronics and stuff like that always unplugging them or take a battery terminal off first Honda he is so Scotty I'm going on a long trip for three months September to December said I changed my engine haul before or after the trip frequent should I change it if I'm using full synthetic oil to begin with it's always a good idea to change the oil before you go on a trip the oils dirty you know I mean if you've already changed that don't worry about it but if you're nearing it's time to change these anyways change it before the trip now as for how frequently should change the oil you didn't say what kind of car you have that depends on a lot of things I don't go by a lot of the manufacturers suggestions because they don't give a crap if your engine wears out too early they want to sell you another car anyway if I had something like a Toyota or Honda I changed the engine oil generally every seven thousand miles with full synthetic oil if use normal oil you could change it every four or five thousand miles but there are some engines out there that I wouldn't go that far I would change it even with full synthetic oil every 5,000 miles because they're notorious for having where inside that Honda earth dreams engine that has oil dilution problems I definitely changed that at least every 5,000 miles even with full synthetic laws so you got to realize what vehicle you have what engine you have then ask guy like me what do you suggest you to do because it's different for different engines a lot of these guys jump on the bandwagon to manufacture so you only have to ginger oil every 10,000 miles yeah then go to him when you got 80,000 miles in your cars burning oil and they'll say oh that's normal that they burn oil at that mile of jail it's not if you changed it all the time you shouldn't burn anyway so if you never want to miss another one of my new Chi repair videos remember to ring that Bell\n"