Tick Tick Tick Tick in Haaarrdd Cornering.

[galaxy]

So I hit some great mountain roads this week and did a level of aggressive corners that I hadn’t previously done in the car. Under the most extreme cornering, I’m getting a rapid tick tick tick tick tick. It only occurs on the turn outside of the car (sound is from the right side of the car on left hander and only left side of car on right handers). The sound changes with g’s. As you let up to roll out of a curve, the tick tick tick subsides. And as mentioned, it only rolls into the ticking on the ruulllyyy heavy curves. It is equal and consistent in both curve directions.

No other issues or symptoms. No other funny noises or clunks. No funny feels. No, I cannot tell if it’s front or rear axle, just that it’s coming from outside the car.

Any thoughts or similar experience?

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[EFI]

Is it coming from the front or rear of the car? If it's the front, could be the engine being starved of oil from it sloshing away from the pickup. Not really common though unless you're on slicks.

 

[Postal Bob]

I heard someone mention something similar in some past post. They retightened the lug nuts to the proper torque, and the sound went away. Check those lug nuts and see.

 

[The Demon]

Damn. I have seen so many threads about ticks, noises and other shit from their car. I had to finally reply. You guys need to start thinking about something else. Every car that has ever been made has had a noise. Tick, groan, rattle, etc. It’s just me but turn the radio louder and forget it unless a code throws!! Drive your f’n car.

 

[Tomster]

Bearings.

 

[460Fred]

Damn. I have seen so many threads about ticks, noises and other shit from their car. I had to finally reply. You guys need to start thinking about something else. Every car that has ever been made has had a noise. Tick, groan, rattle, etc. It’s just me but turn the radio louder and forget it unless a code throws!! Drive your f’n car.

That response is pretty funny. I get the don’t worry about it thing but sometimes you need to recognize a potential problem sooner than later.
A few years ago I had a transmission fluid dump and didn’t know it except a transmission idiot light came on briefly then went out. Did not think much about it as nothing was abnormal except the idiot light.
A week later and my transmission is done. Lesson learned…don’t ignore abnormalities.

 

[NightmareMoon]

The two piece rotors can tick very rapidly in corners, that's kind of normal for two piece rotors on high end cars ... but see if this helps first...

Take your wheels off and clean the wheel to rotor mating surfaces with a scotch pad and some brake cleaner. Aluminum hats on two piece rotors and aluminum wheels can do this when they're a little dirty. Iron rotors to aluminum wheels (most cars) don't do it. Believe it or not, chances are that will fix it. I just went through this a couple of weeks ago.

In my case the ticking was audible in low speed corners, so there's a chance what you're hearing is just the floating rotors doing their thing at high speed, but try cleaning the surfaces its cheap and it might solve it entirely.

 

[Txclyde1]

Just so people know the rotors are not steel they are cast iron .If rotors were steel the rust would be heavy and the rotors would warp quite easily.Just clarifying not intended to be negative.Also I’ve been in the foundry business since 1973z

 

[PP0001]

Damn. I have seen so many threads about ticks, noises and other shit from their car. I had to finally reply. You guys need to start thinking about something else. Every car that has ever been made has had a noise. Tick, groan, rattle, etc. It’s just me but turn the radio louder and forget it unless a code throws!! Drive your f’n car.

If someone needs to turn up their radio in one of our Voodoo equipped GT350/R's they obviously have a problem.

When you really think about it who actually needs a radio when we have one of the best sounding engines of all time which provides some of the best music to the ear ever!!

 

[Zuess765]

I had the same issue on the my 2018 GT350 and it was coming from the left rear wheel when I would take right hand turns or cornering. It turned out to be the wheel lugs were loose and not properly torqued on that wheel. I tightened the lugs up to to 150lbs and problem was gone

 

[Cobra Jet]

Check to make sure the rear axle nuts are properly torqued. There's a larger thread in the suspension sub-forum that relates some S550 exterior clicking to the rear axle nuts.

 

[Rapid Red]

So I hit some great mountain roads this week and did a level of aggressive corners that I hadn’t previously done in the car. Under the most extreme cornering, I’m getting a rapid tick tick tick tick tick. It only occurs on the turn outside of the car (sound is from the right side of the car on left hander and only left side of car on right handers). The sound changes with g’s. As you let up to roll out of a curve, the tick tick tick subsides. And as mentioned, it only rolls into the ticking on the ruulllyyy heavy curves. It is equal and consistent in both curve directions.

No other issues or symptoms. No other funny noises or clunks. No funny feels. No, I cannot tell if it’s front or rear axle, just that it’s coming from outside the car.

Any thoughts or similar experience?

What year is the car & mileage, seems like a good place to start?

 

[galaxy]

‘17 with 18K on it. Lug nuts are torqued properly. I thought about the rear axle nuts as I have never checked them. But I never had a reason to check them before this. The only thing that makes me think it “might” be normal for my car is how equal the sound is in both curve directions and force. But I don’t feel this type of sound should be normal. There was no way at all to pinpoint it was even in fact coming from the rear.

I think there was also a smaller thread on checking the rear axle nuts in this group also. I think torque specs and stuff between the two cars are the same, but not positive.

 

[THX 138]

Any marks on your brake calipers? Could be your wheels flexing slightly under hard cornering and your wheel weights hitting the calipers, if your wheel weights aren’t set back all the way to the edge of the wheel.

 

[drummerboy]

It's almost certainly just the hub ticky thing. Tighten all lugnuts to 150, or better yet, loosen them first, or rotate your tires first, and please report back.

Users here have all reported that the ticking is gone after Ford replaces the hubs. Pretty sure they've all also reported the ticking is gone after torquing the lugnuts to 150. Personally, I had some minimal ticking that was slowly getting worse, and then was extreme with ticking at all times after dialing in a bunch of camber. Proper lugnut torque cured it, and it has never returned.

Here's a post where a guy suggests a broken washer in the hub, which in theory seems to be at least in the right ballpark: https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/th...while-turning-right.90653/page-4#post-3080631

The ticking can be minimal if they're slightly under torqued (sounds like yours), or very extreme if way under torqued. Also it's a possibility that the more camber you have, the more extreme the ticking gets.

It also seems to me that it's most likely something we just have to deal with: unless replacement hubs are different from the originals, it seems to me that the ticking will come back eventually if the lugnuts are not tight enough.

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