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Old 06-21-2024, 04:26 PM
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Cheers everyone, I'm trying to find the cause of the noise my car is doing.
It only does it when doing quick left to right movements, e.g. driving through the city and moving quickly to one side to avoid a potthole or something.
I uploaded a short video so you can hear the noise. It is a little louder and deeper in reality compared to the video.
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You need to jack up the frontend and pull, push, shake everything.
 
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Cheers, I checked everything but it all felt tight. I still had the old sway bar links so got new ones and installed them, greased all the ball joints and checked the damper bolts (had to use some off-spec bolts last time I installed them). Now the noise is gone!
 
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Maybe just dry balljoints?
 
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I usually grease them like every 2-3000 miles, so I'm not sure if it was a dry balljoint or the sway bar links though. But will check the ball joints more often now. Thank you!
 



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