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Suspension Rattle, Clunky


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Not sure what is causing it, but the right front side clunks a little when coming down from bumps, and the left sounds like a shaky box of rocks when going over small bumps...mechanic says it could be: ball joint, upper strut mount, bearing, or loose bolts. Anyone else have this issue?

Also, strut brace bar was removed due to a stripped strut stud found, didn't notice a big difference in handling..what is the point of these things for street cars?

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I just gave my car away to the mechanic. My suspension feel like yours, it is 90K miles on original parts. I can hear clunk in the rear. Car shake and rattle alot, plus I feel a lot of play on steering wheel. Anyway I will be changing struts and springs, control arms, swaybar bushings, tierods maybe wheel bearings. I will do alignment also. I bought coils so I don't have to worry about strut mounts.

Once I pick up my car I let you know if those parts change anything.

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I performed a search on the forum after posting, and found some points to look for: common problems for noise are loose sway bars. Also, Loren previously stated that there are TSB's on worn strut mounts... :renntech:

no play in the steering tho...not sure what causes that, but I hear ball joints and bearings can cause noise as well...

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I just gave my car away to the mechanic. My suspension feel like yours, it is 90K miles on original parts. I can hear clunk in the rear. Car shake and rattle alot, plus I feel a lot of play on steering wheel. Anyway I will be changing struts and springs, control arms, swaybar bushings, tierods maybe wheel bearings. I will do alignment also. I bought coils so I don't have to worry about strut mounts.

Once I pick up my car I let you know if those parts change anything.

I had a clunk in the rear and it turned out to be the original motor mount (that you cant see) was bad...it has been said else where that they start going at 45000. I am at 54000 and it was gone. Changed it (1.5 hours) and all is like new..ALL my sounds around the car seemed to disappear.

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I changed engine mount at 75K miles and the car still clunk(ing). I found somewhere on the forum that it could be because of either worn out strut mounts or upper track arms or both. I'm retty much ready to change whole suspension 'cause that rattling and shaking is really annoying.

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