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[Captain Mainwaring]

might i add with how much i have lowered it, it is riding on the bump stops... could this produce this kind of noise?

 

Do you think it should be sat on the bump stops? could end up breaking something.

 

If you recently carried this out, the noise could be bit of ball joints that have never met each other coming together and crying about it..

It's not unknown for swivels to be tightly shimmed to get it through a ticket....change the geometry and they could be tightening up now.

Edited by Captain Mainwaring, 20 June 2013 - 12:46 PM.

[Yoda]

Having chased a similar noise in the past, checking all the usual suspects, it turned out to be a top arm pin nut had come loose.

[yellowmini80]

Its been sitting on the bump stops since day one and has only started making this noise after a year of driving

[jaydee]

Whos betting a pint thats just the poly bushes making their wonders?

[yellowmini80]

solved it. Knuckle joints had gone through the nylon cups and were rubbing against the control arm! All the poly bushes are fine.

 

Thanks guys

[KernowCooper]

Have you checked the bush at the bottom of the Knuckle in the top arm ?

Drinks are on you then

 

Glad you found it I had one which did simular years back.

[Captain Mainwaring]

Its been sitting on the bump stops since day one and has only started making this noise after a year of driving

 

I like your style of maintenance - 

[yellowmini80]

 

Its been sitting on the bump stops since day one and has only started making this noise after a year of driving

 

I like your style of maintenance - 

 

this doesnt require maintenance, its sitting on them through choice. i drive it carefully and it hasn't caused any damage to anything. In my opinion it looks better lower, and if something did turn out to break through this then i would fix it and raise it up off the bump stops. If anything being on the stops would have put less strain on the knuckle joints so this isnt the cause of why the cups wore through. should have bought genuine 

[Captain Mainwaring]

 

 

Its been sitting on the bump stops since day one and has only started making this noise after a year of driving

 

I like your style of maintenance - 

 

this doesnt require maintenance, its sitting on them through choice. i drive it carefully and it hasn't caused any damage to anything. In my opinion it looks better lower, and if something did turn out to break through this then i would fix it and raise it up off the bump stops. If anything being on the stops would have put less strain on the knuckle joints so this isnt the cause of why the cups wore through. should have bought genuine 

 

 

As you wish - the one thing I can assure you is that it IS placing more shock load on the knuckle joints.

Roll on MOT time or do you jack it back up for the ticket?

[yellowmini80]

It passed the mot like this last year. Not a dodgy mot either.

[Captain Mainwaring]

It passed the mot like this last year. Not a dodgy mot either.

 

Dodgy? maybe not, but wrong, certainly yes. It's 100% a fail for a car to be sitting on the bump stops in normal road use.

I'd take it back to the same place - a test centre that carries out the test properly will fail it.