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Originally Posted by Huskymaniac
Did you replace the strut at the same time? Did you ever try to test the strut by having someone sit in the car while you rocked the front corners of the car up and down?
It really sounds like the steering rack to me. I have been wondering if it is related to this TSB:
http://users.sisna.com/ignatius/suba...-09-01_tsb.pdf
On a non-related note, does anyone have a good test to see if your tires are rubbing the wheel wells? Would the sound be a nasty grinding noise or a simple squonk noise? I get a squonk that sound like rubber rubbing on metal but I think it is actually the over-seized jack I have in the trunk which is surrounded by styrofoam and just sitting between the spare tire and the wall of the recess. I would think a tire rubbing on the wheel well would make a much worse noise but I wanted to test it out for sure. I was thinking some driveway chalk on the tire and see if it get rubbed off. |
I didn't really test anything. I assumed the noise was the calipers and had panned to rebuild them sometime in the future. Installing coilovers was a separate venture that happened to fix the clunking. An interesting observation: I drove the car for a few days without the rear sear/interior and could see the rear strut mounts. Any time the car went over a bump they were bouncing up and down wildly.
As for the rubbing... With as low as my car is now I can get the fronts to rub in hard corners. It's a nasty noise, hard to mistake for anything else.