 » Site Navigation | | | | » Recent Threads | | | looove 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 0 Replies, 1,648 Views | |  |  |  | |  07-19-2005, 05:56 PM | #1 | | Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 67 |  Loud banging noise in front suspension
I am getting this loud metal to metal noise out of the front left from the suspension. I will also hear a noise that sounds related when I apply the brakes. I pop from the left side. I took the brakes apart last night and pushed and pulled on all kinds of stuff last night but couldnt find anything.
May car sounds like a ford truck when I go over a bump. Any ideas?? |  |  | | 07-19-2005, 06:04 PM | #2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Minneapolis Posts: 1,587 |
Could be a front left ball joint. There are two of them up there. | | | | | 07-19-2005, 06:52 PM | #3 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: St. Louis Posts: 138 |
I have a metal noise coming from the front left when I hit a bump also. I did the same thing as you, lifted it up and shook everything I could find, but couldn't find the source. If you find it, please let me know. __________________
97 sport | | | | | 07-20-2005, 02:26 AM | #4 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Manassas, VA Posts: 4,129 |
Motor mounts?????  Quote: | Originally Posted by bmwpwr I am getting this loud metal to metal noise out of the front left from the suspension. I will also hear a noise that sounds related when I apply the brakes. I pop from the left side. I took the brakes apart last night and pushed and pulled on all kinds of stuff last night but couldnt find anything.
May car sounds like a ford truck when I go over a bump. Any ideas?? | __________________ 
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my car the nois comes from the right front
could be it the mounts or i replaced the drivers side wheelbearing last year the right side make the same nois i shacked the tire and felt some play
have you had anywork done anytime soon
i replaced all the lowercontrol arms,tie-rod,calipers,bushings,bushing mounts,shocks and springs and left side wheel bearing few months back | | | | | 07-29-2005, 07:50 PM | #6 | | Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 67 |
Ok, this is making me crazy. I have tracked the problem down to the left front brake. I took it a part and put it back together to make sure everything was tight. Everything seems to be tight. Ive still got the noise.
The reason I think it has something to do with the brake is because i can modulate the rattle sound by applying the brakes. With the brakes on there is no noise.
I cant figure it out... | | | | | 07-29-2005, 08:10 PM | #7 | | Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: England, UK Posts: 1,288 |
mine has squeaked from the front right since i owned the car, has a new calliper too, stereo has helped to fix it..... well drown it out..... __________________
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I'm willing to bet that it is the motor mounts. I had the same problem. I had not 1, but 2 broken motor mounts. | | | | | 07-29-2005, 11:28 PM | #9 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Richmond Hill, GA Posts: 1,231 |
just grab a hold of your engine and shake it. That should be enought to tell you if they are bad | | | | | 08-02-2005, 09:41 AM | #10 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Southern California Posts: 225 |
kind of glad to know I'm not the only one __________________
Love my ti | | | | | 08-02-2005, 03:19 PM | #11 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: St. Louis Posts: 138 |
anyone know how i can find the motor mounts or how hard they are to replace? __________________
97 sport | | | | | 08-04-2005, 12:42 AM | #12 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: St. Louis Posts: 138 | don't look beyond the obvious
I've been trying to find where this rattle has been coming from for a month.....raise the car up, shake everything, take off the bumper, shake the engine, everything. Can't find it. Finally I notice I'm missing the brake pad clip, DUH. So anyone else hearing a rattle in the front, don't look beyond the obvious, is your clip still on? __________________
97 sport | | | | | 08-05-2005, 07:41 AM | #13 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Southern California Posts: 225 |
Yeah, it is the anti rattle clip that causes the noise. I over look it because the old clip was still on, but it doesn't work. I replaced it today, problem's gone. __________________
Love my ti | | | | | 09-12-2005, 10:13 PM | #14 | | Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 67 |
I finally discovered what the noise was. it was the left front brake pads. They fit in the caliper and move around. I put new pads in and the noise is gone. | | | | | 05-13-2006, 02:59 AM | #15 | | Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Seattle Posts: 181 |
Sorry to raise the dead but this problem has come up for me.
My left front suspension bangs, clunks, pops, whatever like crazy over dips and bumps and it even pops when I turn the wheel hard left to right while driving. I took the car up to 70 or more and let off and over uneven surfacings the front suspension (left) banged and clunked rapidly BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG and I can feel it very strongly in the steering wheel at this speed as well (wheel bangs slightly left and right with the sound).
My steering also seems to be out of alignment pulls to the right a bit with the wheel held straight.
I took the car to my mechanic today and we went for a drive and put the car on the lift; he inspected the front and he says he doesn't see anything out of order and checked torque on some of the nuts for the lower control arms, etc. We moved the swaybar (eibach) endlinks to soft since they looked like they were binding at the tight setting. The bang / clunk didn't go away and seems even more powerful now.
We're pretty stumped, and this sound is unbelievably HORRID. Like someone is letting the car have it with a mallet.
Anyone have any suggestions or ideas?
Edit: I should add that I've got Koni shocks on vogtland springs, control arms, polyurethane 'lollipop' bushings put in 2 summers ago. | | | | | |
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