Q: The car I'm working on was in and accident a month ago. I changed the bakes and now it's making a grinding and thumping sound

asked by on July 13, 2017

My car was hit on the left side right by the tire and I changed the bakes it ran good for about two days and now it's making a grinding and thumping sound...

My car has 147257 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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