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#1 james rolph

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Posted 16 December 2004 - 01:21 PM

Hi,

i have a wierd knocking noise coming from what appears to be just under the passenger side dash, its coming from inside the engine bay somewhere around that area but nothings fallen off etc, can anyone suggest what to check? might it be a suspention problem? sorry for the brief description but its a hard noise to explain

#2 Purple Tom

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Posted 16 December 2004 - 04:29 PM

when does it do it? is it constant or does it only do it on acceleration and deceleration? Sounds awfully like tired engine steady bushes to me, which could be causing the exhaust to bang on the bulkhead, and make the knocking noise in that sort of area.

#3 james rolph

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Posted 16 December 2004 - 04:42 PM

its when i pull away, and worse when i am going at low speeds and its worse when i go over bumps etc.

#4 psycho mini driver

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Posted 16 December 2004 - 10:02 PM

it could be your driveshaft. i have a knocking noise from drivers side in what sounds like the engine bay area. it knocks on acceleration. mine is a case of worn splines on the drive shaft, so kinda need a new one. other than that, it could be the head steady rubber bush gone. this also happened to me, a new one is just a jew pounds and easy to fit.

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Posted 16 December 2004 - 10:26 PM

Get someone who knows to drive it.

Its almost impossable to diagnose the problem with the information we have

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Posted 22 December 2004 - 04:54 PM

nothampton hey, its probably got something to do with all the speed bumps there are around there, especially corby way, too high to drive over and a bugger to mount! have a check underneth the car if you haven't found the problem yet and check if all the exhaust brackets are tight and none broken especially the one underneith the manafold clip thats one i broke made a banging sound?




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