Clicking/Rubbing Noise from driver rear wheel

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hellaslows13
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I have been searching and searching, i've read countless threads. I've googled and googled.. I still cannot pin point why my car is making this noise so please help! I will try to provide as much detail as possible.

Here is the video of the noise that I am hearing. It's a grinding/rubbing noise coming from my rear driver side wheel. I hear the noise more when I am cruising to a stop, not so much after I accelerate past 20mph. I have jacked the car up and checked everything. The 32mm axle nut is tight, I grabbed the rim at 12 and 6 o clock and checked for play, the wheel seems tight with little play. The rotor and brakes seem fine, rotor smooth as glass. I also put the car in first when it was on jackstands to see if the rotors/hub area made any noise and I noticed a grinding noise coming from the passenger side brake area..but I don't know if that has anything to do with the noise I am currently hearing. The car has 40,000 miles. I lowered the car at 36k miles. I did not correct the camber which is leading me to believe that I prematurely put wear on the wheel bearing. I drifted the car at two skidpad events.

350z noise from rear driver wheel - YouTube

Here is the other noise I came across...

MVI 4015 - YouTube

Does anyone have any ideas of what my problem could be?

Here is how low my car is on Fortune Auto Coilovers
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Wheel bearing came to mind first and the fact that you've checked everything else so thoroughly points to that. Wheel bearing replacement is pretty simple and the bearings themselves aren't that much. I'd always have someone else take a look and listen before I started throwing parts at a problem though.

I don't know that the second click/grind is related, besides being on the opposite side, the car is on stands and since there's no load on the suspension and the conditions are different.


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