whopis

Thank you all for your info / advice. You were spot on with the wheel bearing diagnosis. Right rear was the really bad one, left rear wasn't much better. Getting those replaced along with new tires and an alignment. I'm glad I found this site - it is really pretty cool. Thanks again for the responsiveness and good advice!

Thanks again for the reponse! To answer your questions: 1) Noise location: It is hard to tell exactly. Definitely sounds like the rear to me, and I think the rear right - but it is difficult. 2) Tire age: Tires are Milestar MS932 11/2017 35,000 miles on the tires. Pressure is good. 3) Tire pressure: good 4) Tire wear: The rear right looks more worn on the outside corner than others. They actually all look a bit more worn than I thought they should, but the right rear was more noticeable. 5) Tracking: No problem tracking - no having to fight the wheel. Not every time - but sometimes when braking, particularly at higher speeds, I get some vibration in the brake pedal and wobbling on the wheel. 6) Noise change with steering: Maybe - very hard to tell though. I think it sounded a bit rougher turning left - but hard to say.

The tires are relatively new. I’ll have to check the wear pattern. it has about 85k miles on it. From what I see that is reaching the time when suspension items maybe an issue.

I have a 2015 Subaru Forester. Recently I had started noticing increasing road noise. I'm not quite sure how long it has been going on - it has gradually increased, and I didn't really notice it right away. (It wasn't until someone else who wasn't in the vehicle regularly pointed it out that I really took note of it). Just recently I was driving in the rain on the highway and the traction was very bad. Like it was hydroplaning - but like it was constantly on the edge of losing traction. Very different than anything I had experienced before. I was in a bad accident about 4 years ago. After the repairs I hadn't noticed any problems like this - this is definitely something new. But of course, I am concerned it might be related to that. In a couple threads here I had noticed people asking similar questions, and someone had asked if the vehicle had been in a wreck. In those cases it hadn't, so I was curious what the thought was about how the wreck could be related. For example: https://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/119312-tire-cupping-scalloping-sequence-to-remedy/ I just experienced the traction issue and as soon as I got home started searching for info on it - and found this site - which looks like a great resource. My plan was to make an appointment with the dealer this week to look at it - but I was hoping to get a bit of insight in the meantime. Any advice is appreciated - Thanks!