Greetings,

I will be as descriptive as possible with this. I am not a Honda guy at all and never experienced this particular problem in any of my vehicles, I've never owned one, but my fiancee has a 2000 civic EX 2-door, I assume with the 1.6l 127hp engine. The car has 102,000 on it, and we are about to do the timing belt.

It feels like the car has something up with the right rear. It's like a shimmy, or slight shake, accompanied by a sound. The only way I can describe the sound is when something spins fast and it's out of balance it kind of makes a fast wowowowowowowow kind of sound.

However it doesn't seem to be the brakes, balance or alignment, I've had those things all checked twice, and the tires are no more than 6 month old Firestones, they have maybe 5-6000 miles on them. The problem occurred before that, though it seemed to get slightly better once we had new tries put on. I also thought it could be a bent rim, but I'd hope that the two places I had the car checked and the tires put on would have told me that. They said they couldn't find anything wrong with the car at all in that area.

Someone was riding with me was thinking it could be something like a wheel bearing, but I'm completely unsure and am also unable to find a REAR wheel bearing part for a 2000 Civic, so I'm thinking the car doesn't have rear wheel bearings, only fronts.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

 

Possibly a bad bearing, if you are confident that the brakes, wheels, and tires are fine.

The rear wheel bearing is built into the hub unit. Pretty straightforward to replace.

 

42200-S04-008BEARING ASSY., RR. HUB UNIT$108.80 #1 in the photo
you will also need a new spindle nut #33
90305-692-010NUT, SPINDLE (22MM)$1.23





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+1 ^^^ wheel bearing

 

Thanks so much for the quick and on point responses.

I really think it has to be that because I've had the breaks, wheels, tires, alignment all checked twice. By 2 very reputable shops in my area. They both said those items are fine. As I mentioned before I can't be sure if it's simply a bent rim or something like that.

TheJGB3 - Any suggestions where I could order those particular parts? I'm not finding any definitive results while I'm googling that part number. A lot of international sites come up, but not any in the US that I'm finding.

I see that Autozone seems to have the part http://www.autozone.com/R,APP989576/...ductDetail.htm but I can't be sure its correct without going to AutoZone

Thanks!

 

Try here:

http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/

 

You can usually hear bearing noise when you jack the car up and spin the wheel by hand. Anything other than absolutely silent will get a lot louder with the weight of the car on it. Check them both to make sure you're replacing the noisy one. You may need both.

 

Both as in front and rear?

 

Left and right rear.