I'm looking for hints from some of the mechanically inclined FiST experts here about how to figure out a couple of suspension creaking and clunking/popping noises. It's driving me mad and just can't seem to figure out the source of it. The car is a 2019 with 27k miles
Clunking/Popping Noise: I get a minor clunk/popping noise that sounds like it is from the front suspension that I can also feel in the floor. It happens some times (but not all!) when I am turning and going from forward to reverse or reverse to forward. Perfect example is when I go to back the car into my driveway--it happens almost every time. But it won't make the noise if I try to replicate it and go forward and reverse again so it seems the suspension needs to be loaded up in a particular way. No noise at all when at higher speeds and car drives normally.
Creaking Noise: New minor creaking that I've heard a few times in the last month when slowly taking a left turn and unwinding the turn and accelerating. The noise mysteriously started after a road trip to Idaho in a snow storm on some really salty roads. Maybe unrelated and just some dried rubber bushings or something like that?
Current Mods on the Car: Stock except for a RMM, torsion bar, rear trunk/hatch brace.
Previous Mods: Bilstein B14s, 2 point traction bar, brakes, Mountune tune, intercooler and air box.
Other info:
-Addmittedly the car has had somewhat of a hard life so far. Lot's of track days, winter driving on shitty snowy roads, summer driving on gravel roads, and everything in between.
-I think the clunk started sometime around when I installed the traction bar or the Bilsteins or the RMM, which all happened in a 3 month span...but I'm not sure. I always assumed the bar was the issue and couple times I tried loosening the bolts and retorquing (wheels on the ground) with no change.
-Last night I finally said f- it and removed the traction bar. I went to back the car out of the garage and parked it in driveway. Got the clunk immediately when reversing into the driveway.
-At this point I've double- and triple- checked all bolts I've touched on the suspension.
What am I missing here? The noise isn't terribly loud but I want to figure it out to be sure it's not anything unsafe or doesn't fail at a bad time...like in the middle of nowhere on a road trip or when my wife takes the car.
Let's hear your thoughts!
Clunking/Popping Noise: I get a minor clunk/popping noise that sounds like it is from the front suspension that I can also feel in the floor. It happens some times (but not all!) when I am turning and going from forward to reverse or reverse to forward. Perfect example is when I go to back the car into my driveway--it happens almost every time. But it won't make the noise if I try to replicate it and go forward and reverse again so it seems the suspension needs to be loaded up in a particular way. No noise at all when at higher speeds and car drives normally.
Creaking Noise: New minor creaking that I've heard a few times in the last month when slowly taking a left turn and unwinding the turn and accelerating. The noise mysteriously started after a road trip to Idaho in a snow storm on some really salty roads. Maybe unrelated and just some dried rubber bushings or something like that?
Current Mods on the Car: Stock except for a RMM, torsion bar, rear trunk/hatch brace.
Previous Mods: Bilstein B14s, 2 point traction bar, brakes, Mountune tune, intercooler and air box.
Other info:
-Addmittedly the car has had somewhat of a hard life so far. Lot's of track days, winter driving on shitty snowy roads, summer driving on gravel roads, and everything in between.
-I think the clunk started sometime around when I installed the traction bar or the Bilsteins or the RMM, which all happened in a 3 month span...but I'm not sure. I always assumed the bar was the issue and couple times I tried loosening the bolts and retorquing (wheels on the ground) with no change.
-Last night I finally said f- it and removed the traction bar. I went to back the car out of the garage and parked it in driveway. Got the clunk immediately when reversing into the driveway.
-At this point I've double- and triple- checked all bolts I've touched on the suspension.
What am I missing here? The noise isn't terribly loud but I want to figure it out to be sure it's not anything unsafe or doesn't fail at a bad time...like in the middle of nowhere on a road trip or when my wife takes the car.
Let's hear your thoughts!
