pintokid Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 My wife's 2017 recently started making strange noises in the front end. When you steered into a parking space and turned the wheel you could hear the rack making strange crunching noises. And above 50mph you could hear a hum that got louder and higher in frequency as you drove faster. To me it sounds like a wheel bearing. We brought it in to the local dealer and they diagnosed that as two separate problems. They replaced the steering rack and that problem is resolved. But for the hum they told us it was the PTU and they replaced that as well. But that didn't resolve the hum at all. In fact it is so obvious I suspect they didn't take it on the highway after replacing the PTU (the dealership is about 1/4 mile from a 65mph highway). It is funny that whichever seat you are in the front it seems to come from that side. It still sounds like a wheel bearing. Anyone here have a similar issue and it was not the PTU? Could it be the transmission? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintokid Posted February 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 They are now ordering the right wheel bearing. At least they didn't need to keep the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintokid Posted March 8, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2019 Yep. It was the right front wheel bearing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWWPerfA_ZN0W Posted March 8, 2019 Report Share Posted March 8, 2019 how many miles on the Edge? pretty early for a WB to die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintokid Posted March 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2019 22 hours ago, WWWPerfA_ZN0W said: how many miles on the Edge? pretty early for a WB to die. Just clicked past 16,000. That would be by far the least miles I've ever seen a wheel bearing fail. I've had a few, but near 100K, and never on a Ford. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWRBB Posted March 11, 2019 Report Share Posted March 11, 2019 My 2015 SHO had 3 of the 4 wheel bearings replaced at less than 40K miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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