Q: Toyota Celica GT 1983 - Knocking noise when car is moving forward, gets louder and faster as the car gets faster.
I have totally replaced the driveshaft thinking the U-Joints were the problem. nothing changed. cant really pinpoint whee the souce is coming from. but it is a horrible knocking noise that rattles the car when in drive
My car has 280000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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The first thing to do is get out your lug wrench and be sure all of the wheel bolts are tight if you don’t find anything that way, your problem could be in the brakes somewhere or even a bad tire. It can be hard to sort those kinds of things out without help, so contact YourMechanic to have a technician come out to your home or office to check out your knocking Celica and let you know what is the problem.
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