Weird noise while cornering left

[MetallicSlate]

Hello ladies and gents.

I recently took a day trip to the beach. One of the roads I was on was particularly bad and I bottomed out. Pretty low on coils so I slammed the ground pretty hard. Ever since, my car has been making a weird noise while taking high speed left turns. When I say high speed, I mean about 30mph and higher. If you've ever crushed a soda can and let it rub your bicycle tire, the noise is very akin to that. If you haven't done that (seriously what was your childhood?) then it's pretty similar to very loud tread noise on a big 4x4. It's not the tread because it looks fine on both tires. And it's not rubbing. On the side the noise is emanating from, I put chalk on the tire to see if it was rubbing on the strut or the inside of the wheel well. Nothing to report in terms of rubbing chalk off.

So I've deduced it's either air, or perhaps I've bent one of the drive shafts. Which is definitely not something I want. I know a user had to replace his recently and I was wondering if it made a similar noise. There is a lot of grease I don't remember being there before, and thank god I didn't crack my oil pan.

Any input would be appreciated guys. Again, the noise only occurs going left on a swooping bend at 30+ mph.

[el_blacky06]

have you lifted the car to check under the engine? you mentioned about the noise when turning so definitely check your cv boot.

[Mr.HacKeR]

It could be the cover above the left tyre?!

[MetallicSlate]

I lifted the car and saw a lot of grease, but both outboard and inboard looked okay from what I saw. I'll need to take it to a shop since I don't have my own lift to pick it up and really look at it.

[el_blacky06]

Definitely going with your cv boot being messed up since you see alot of grease.
Good luck and let us know what's the damage

[MetallicSlate]

The weird thing is, the impact was on the left side and the right side is where I see the grease. I dunnooooooooo.

[MetallicSlate]

I'm curious if anybody knows how much a CV boot costs? I think I see it on Nissan's website at about 140 dollars, but I'm not sure. I'm just wondering what this is gonna cost me since I'm lowered and Nissan probably isn't going to cover it. I'd swap it out to stock suspension if I had time to see if I could get by but I want to be aware of the costs up front just in case.

[el_blacky06]

That's probably the right price, I got mine for 138 bucks shipped as of six months ago and that's the cheapest I found mine for my 6mt sedan

[MetallicSlate]

My car is CVT so I'm thinking I looked at the wrong part. I think the one for the CVT is a bit more expensive.

[el_blacky06]

Keep looking around for a good price dude. I'm sure there's one for about the same price

[MetallicSlate]

390 for parts and labor from the dealer. Broken inboard cv boot. Guess I'll raise the car up a little to avoid such a calamity again.

[el_blacky06]

Sounds like a good price for part and install. It's basically taking off your wheel, brake system, disk brake & then you could take off the cv boot. It's time consuming tho unless the nissan technician has another handy man around. Just drive careful and it won't happen again