What Are the Causes of a Steering Wheel Making a Grinding Sound?

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Tip 1 - Why is There Noise When Turning my Steering Wheel? - BlueDevil Products

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by William Jenkins | permalink

Can you describe the noise? Is it a clunk, crunch, screech, squeal, whine, hum, clicking, grinding or popping? As mechanics, we regularly get people asking for advice about their car, and usually when it is “making a funny noise”. I’ve gotten pretty good over the past few years discerning the noises people describe and matching... Read more »

For further reading: http://www.gobluedevil.com/blog/why-is-their-noise-when-turning-my-steering-wheel/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Steering Wheels & Grinding Noises | eHow

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Alex Szaro | permalink

A steering wheel that produces a grinding noise is not only annoying, but the grinding noise may be the sign of a serious problem. Do not ignore steering noises and other problems as the cause may indicate an impending steering failure.

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Tip 3 - 7 Things Your Car Is Trying to Tell You

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Crumpkin | permalink

Your vehicle is a lot like a good bird dog, saddle horse, or trained hunting falcon: Its often trying to tell you something important. To protect your bank balance, your vehicle, and perhaps your own body, we offer this vehicle-to-human translation
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Tip 4 - Weird grinding from steering column

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Christopher Thorneycroft - Smith | permalink

I have a 2005 Mazda 6 with about 170,000 miles. Over the past few days it first developed a weird, low-toned clicking sound whenever I made a turn (left or right), which seemed to come from the...

For further reading: http://ask.metafilter.com/238829/Weird-grinding-from-steering-column ^[4]