Q: Whining sound from from wheels

asked by on June 01, 2017

I was driving n my front right wheel started making a whine sound n my front wheels lock, tried to get it home n the whine sound got louder n it lock the front wheel..

My car has 130000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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