Clunking scraping sound from front wheel somewhere

[howardscott]

Has anyone had a weird clunking noise which a kind of scrape every now and again from the front wheel. I can't see anything and it only just started. Like a cable or a twig hitting the wheel. And clunking at random. Not in a rhythm. But there's nothing hanging beneath the car and nothing I can see obvious in any of the front wheels.

 

[spoton]

Could be a stone between the brake pad and the wheel.Try reversing see if it comes out.

 

[steveny]

I had this a couple of weeks ago on my drive home from work. As suggested above, it was a stone stuck behind the brakes. It was so loud when driving it sounded like something under the bonnet was about to explode! I called the AA via MG assist and the patrolman removed what he said was the biggest stone he had seen in this situation from the front nearside wheel.