My accord suddenly started having a loud droning noise while I am driving (not when stopped.) It sounds like an airplane is flying overhead. Can you help?

 

This may or may not be the right place for this, lets see where it goes. I might have to move it to General Tech.

Does the noise "seem" to be related to the speed of the car in anyway? Or is it related to the engine rpm's more than speed?

 

Thanks..it does get louder when i go faster

 

It could be a number of things. First thing that comes to mind when I hear the word droning is the tranny, but it could be something as simple as an uninflected tire.

 

Could be a bad wheel bearing. My left rear went bad and sounded like you describe. I got away with driving it for a week or so, but you don't want to push your luck. It seems to gradually get louder as the days go by, and also as you pick up speed. You can usually tell if the noise is coming from the back or front, but to isolate to the correct wheel hub can be tough unless a mechanic has it on a lift and can test them.

 

This should have been posted in the general tech help section.

I agree it may be a bad wheel bearing. On my 8th generation Accord, it was a bad front wheel bearing that was causing a droning noise. It was coming from the front; but, was difficult to determine which side. Even when I had car on a lift, me and my mechanic friend couldn't really tell which side it was. The traditional methods of trying to move the wheel back and forth, spinning it, etc. didn't really reveal which side. I drove it a while longer and guess correctly which side it was (I heard it more distinctly driving very late at night when there wasn't much environmental noise).

The wheel bearing unit actually has like two inside the unit; so, many times the car can really be driven for quite a while with the occasional noise before it gets progressively worst (e.g., gets louder, vibrations, etc.).

 

Yea, I should have moved it to begin with