I hope someone can help me with this.
I have an 04 GT with 160k km (about 100k miles) on it.
I'm hearing a metallic pinging noise from my front passenger wheel, in time with wheel rotation. The noise is gone when turning RIGHT, semi-audible when straight, and quite noticeable when turning LEFT. The noise seems mostly independent of braking, although when braking hard it seems to get slightly louder.
I've pulled the wheel and brakes off to check for debris or something causing the noise, but found nothing. Rotating the wheel by hand did not produce any sound, but obviously I couldn't turn it as fast as I probably need to. After inspecting I cleaned everything up, put it back together, test drove, and the noise remains.
Since it doesn't seem to be any brake components, might it be the wheel bearing? Or something else?
Thanks for reading!