# Windstar with a creaking front end

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/windstar-with-a-creaking-front-end/2660>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [August 5, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/windstar-with-a-creaking-front-end/2660 "2007-08-05T16:44:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ransome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@Ransome](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ransome)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/windstar-with-a-creaking-front-end/2660/1 "2007-08-05T16:44:24Z")

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Today’s program had a caller with a Windstar with creaking front end. T&R suggested tie rod ends or ball joints

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**Author:** ![Ransome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@Ransome](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ransome)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/windstar-with-a-creaking-front-end/2660/2 "2007-08-05T16:48:53Z")

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I have just gone through this with a Caravan. It was a wheel bearing, very bad scene developed over a short period of time. Suggest you contact the caller and have bearings checked before they die or get stranded in some unfortunate place.

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**Author:** ![Ransome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@Ransome](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ransome)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/windstar-with-a-creaking-front-end/2660/3 "2007-08-05T16:57:42Z")

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To be more specific, the creaking occurred over several months, the bearing disintegrated crossing a long bridge with no shoulder to pull over.