So the other night I hit a pot hole in the rain, and ever since my car has been making a weird creaking and clicking noise when I turn the wheel more than 90 degrees. Any thoughts as to what it might be?

I know my front struts are about to go, but I think it's something else.

clicking while turning.. hmm how big was the pot hole. and whell bearings sometime make noise off power while turning. (atleast mine did)

Check your axles, one might be on it's way out.

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That would not be awesome. Why would it only make that noise when I turn sharply, though?

It seems that the last two weeks, all this stuff is failing on my car: my power steering comes and goes, one of my calipers started clicking again, and now this. It might be time to dip into the New Car fund sooner than I had hoped...

When you turn the wheel driving, it puts pressure on the axle while it's spinning. I hear a common noise that the axle makes is a clicking sound when driving.
Changing an axle isn't that bad, and not bad price wise. I just bought a new A1 Cardone from a local parts place for about $130 but you can find them ALOT cheaper.

Check for play in your tires while it's up in the air, it's a common way to check for a bad wheel bearing. When my wheel bearing went, it made a horrible squealing noise that got worse when i turned a certain way.

Is it when theres load on it as in you go hard around a left hand corner it will make it on the right when you can feel the weight transfer to that side? that would most likely be bearing.

If It was the outer CV it would do it load or no load and most probably only at slow speeds doing sharp turns.

Its possible the bearing won't show play but it could also show play so check it, jack it up and wiggle the wheel, if you are unsure of movement check the other side but its pretty noticeable.

Axle boot could be split but it could of seperated the CV inside the boot but I'd say there'd be more problems than just noises lol.

As for your other problems, your calipers are probably clicking because the pad/shims are moving, this can usually be fixed from grease/anti squeal and copper grease but it again could be something else.

Power steering could be the rack or the pump or it could just be low on fluid, check the fluid!

Hope I've been of some help.

im currently having this problem its ****ting me to hi hell, ive checked all bolts on the passenger side ive placed anti squeal on the shims of the brake pads, no change , it happens on reversing when acceleration is applied and when taking off at the lights ahhhhh its getting to me ima take it to the mech tommorrow it could be bearings or ball joints, ill let you'all know the fix.

+1 on axle, simple enough DIY if you can turn a wrench (and possibly use a crow bar).

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Even if you can't turn a wrench most shops only charge 1 hour labor to do this job. OTD price at a shop should be fairly cheap.

Axles are easy, I have replaced mine about 4 times in the last month. The first one had a bad boot, the second came with a bad carrier bearing that squealed, the third one blew apart two days after I installed it, and I am currently driving on the fourth. (picture of the one that blew apart if you are interested: http://imgur.com/00kS5TM

This post has been edited by Hirogodsend: May 31, 2013 - 5:05 PM