Front driver side wheel creeks whenever I turn ?

2009 HONDA ACCORD
208,000 MILES • 3.5L • AUTOMATIC
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DORINA CARMELINA
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Left front driver side wheel creeks whenever I turn and drive slowly past bumps. I was looking behind the wheel, and I kind of noticed that the left tire rod has a bit of grease on it and I checked the right side and that one is pretty dry. I’ll put pictures down below. I kind of shook it a little bit and it was making creaking noise
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Sep 9, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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A video would be best of the noise, it might be a CV axle going bad. Check out this guide to see what I am talking about.

https://2carpros.com/articles/symptoms-of-a-bad-cv-axle-joint/

It could be the tie rod end though, did you check it for play, if so and the play is excessive it needs to be replaced, this guide can help with that as well.

https://2carpros.com/articles/tie-rod-end-replacement/

Let me know if you can upload a video so I can tell for sure what's going on.


Sep 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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