83 300D
I have a noise coming from under the car that I originally thought was the exhaust system. I don't think it is now. It seems to follow the rotation of the wheels. It doesn't make the noise right away, only after driving around a bit. It is very cold, very wet and very miserable here in New England and I'm trying to avoid crawling around underneath right now. I'm curious, is the exhaust system close enough to the drive shaft that it could scrape if one of the rubber donuts holding the exhaust broke? The rear-end wouldn't make a scraping sound would it? The car's got 187000 on it. I think I remember having a scraping noise in one of the front wheels, sounded like the backing plate hitting something. I figured it was just rust and crap and would clear up by itself. If wheel bearings were so bad I could hear them in the car it would be pretty obvious no? I'm just trying to determine if the thing is safe to drive or not and hoping someone ran across something similar. Brakes were re-done this summer, pads only.