Do any of yall know wht bad brake pads n rotors sound like?

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

bc my car is making a old school train like sound only on the passenger side of the car. do yall think that its the brake pads/rotors? :/ it starts at 45 but when you slow down it goes down with speed and gets LOUDER! please just let it be this cuz imma need whtever it is and A NEW battery soon and i dont make enough money to keep puttting money into this car! Im bout to just sell it. if i keep getting things wrong with it

[nissangirl74]

Does it make the sound when you aren't applying your brakes?

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

Yea. :/

[MaximA32]

That's probably not good. I would NOT drive it until you were able to get the brakes inspected. It sounds like it could be that the rotor is worn all the way through the friction material of the rotor and you are now braking on the cooling fins of the rotor and the piston of the caliper. I cannot stress enough how important it is you don't drive the car until you can get it looked at.

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

i looked up under the car and come to find out my boot on my cv axle was tore and there was huge amounts of grease leaking out. :/ im still gonna look at the rotor when my husbands stepdads friends fix the boot on the cv axle.. and to think i just had them put the cv axle on!

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNH8v6_Kzk[/youtube]

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

Sounds like above video but im pretty sure it was the cv axle boot i hope :/

[PapaSmurf2k3]

That's pretty crazy. Brakes are easy to inspect, just jack the car up and look at them (or look straight through your wheels if you can).

The only other thing I can think of would be a wheel bearing that is severely gone, or something attached to either your tire or axle or something that is whipping around hitting something.

While you have the wheel off the ground, try and rock it from top to bottom (push in at the top towards the axle while you pull out at the bottom, towards you, and alternate that). If there is any play at all, your wheel bearing is toast.

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

eeekkk... i swear cars cost too much. :/ I hope its either the cv axle or rotor gahhhhh .... and it doesnt help that they aint bothering with looking at it. My husband swears that he is going to go look at it himself

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Well, it beats the horse and buggy.

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

True. :/

[MaximA32]

Does the wheel vibrate at all when this happens? If so, how bad?

Do you hear that noise when you're turning or while going straight?

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

If you mean steering wheel no. husband said when he drove it last it was vibrating in the gas pedal....and while going straight. never hear it when we are turning. :/

[MaximA32]

It almost sounds like the dreaded "KA death rattle" but it's tough to tell. Pull the dipstick and let us know what the oil level is at. If there's oil on it, what color is it and how much?

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

Me and my husband and his grandfather changed the oil in it like 3 days before it started messing up. O.o oil level was near the H and it was the normal unused oil color.

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

and we have let the car sit since friday and now the whole cv axle is popping dam it.