Fitted lots of new parts including coilies,bushes, drop links etc etc!

When I get in my car to head off for work I have noticed loads of knocking! I cant locate it and everything seems tight! After a short while it seems to go away and I cant hear it or feel it! Im stumped how a nocking do this! I thought maybe something suspension wise is settling? Any ideas are useful in getting to the bottom of this! Cheers

Did you change the top mounts and bearings?

Yea did them with the other bits, its driving me mad! Sounds like an apple in a lunch box rolling about lol

Sounds silly but you didnt drop anything down in the engine bay while doing the top mounts did you. Maybe a socket.

Tool box in the boot? The jack in the spare wheel some times rattles. Or could be the exhaust knocking?

Check the bonnet

I could of, definately worth a check! Had a mate helping to so he mite have dropped something! Could the wrong size arb bush cause this? I hav some 20mm poly ones in atm but I wasnt to sure on the arb size! Someone suggested it could be the drive shaft :s

If it's sounds metallic then the chances are, the sound will stay consistent, and will not go away.

As said, a drive shaft, exhaust striking bodywork, would not just wear off/ diminish as you drove.

Suggest keep looking, sorry.

I recently had a knocking sound at the front end which seemed to come from the driver's side wheel arch area when going over speed bumps and uneven road surfaces. It turned out to be a worn front anti- roll bar link, just in case that is something you've not looked at.

I dont hear it when I go over speed bumps which is confusing me, the spring sits on the alloy adjuster thingy, could it be rubbing until the weight of the car moves when I pull away? Did it when I was reversing on full lock to! Its madness, fitted parts to get rid of a nock and now there is a new one haha driving me mad! !

Have you checked under the drivers seat?  I had a knock for ages and one day an aerosol can appeared from under the seat lol, solved my problem.  Maybe also take the engine undertray off as if anything was dropped chances are its been caught by the tray?

Looked again earlier and i literally haven't got a clue lol checked there n there's nothing! I have narrowed it down to the movement forward and back, cood poor quality bushes cause this? Also should the springs touch when lowered? Looks like they are a little bit

Anti roll link arms having mine done this afternoon £12 each

Part numbers or link for the above?

Still have the nocking, given up trying to find anything now so the mot will hopefully b the thing to solve this! If an arb bush was say 1 or 2 mm to big would there b a nocking?

Disconnect the drop links from the anti roll bar so it's not doing anything then see if it goes away.

But then the arb will b bouncing around? I still struggle to work out why it nocks under 30mph then vanishes, it makes no sense lol

Still have the nocking, given up trying to find anything now so the mot will hopefully b the thing to solve this! If an arb bush was say 1 or 2 mm to big would there b a nocking?

 

Are you sure that you haven't got someone tied up in the boot that you forgot about?

I have the same, fitted some new suspension and had some knocking from the front left, turned out to be a drop link, replaced both sides and the knocking went away,

 

Now the new suspension has settled, there is knocking at low speeds (below 10mph) coming from the rear, the car also creaks if i sit inside and bounce on the seat, i'm guessing it's the bushes??

Mine was the drop link... Have a feel when the car is on its wheels not jacket up. When I jacked it up and took the wheel off... You'd never have known it was the droplinks because it was under tension and it wouldn't move at all.

Soon as the car was sat normally it would shake like a leaf! But you have to reach behind the wheel.

I changed it.. And now it's silent! Like having a new car

i changed my drop links the other week. i recommend these heavy duty ones. youll see the difference in thickness when you remove your old ones

 

http://www.vwspares.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=178

i changed my drop links the other week. i recommend these heavy duty ones. youll see the difference in thickness when you remove your old ones

 

http://www.vwspares.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=178

 

These are the ones that i had fitted, a lot thicker then the normal black ones i had on the car

if its the drop links you will hear every bump or deviation in the road and its not pleasant after travelling 30 miles or it might be the top mount bush then again the anti-roll bar bushes, sounds like a trial and error job, for drop-links take wheel off and use a jack to release the weight and slacken off be careful not to break the torx head as i did nightmare and slacken and re-tighten, top mount turn wheel and listen for different clunking sound from the arches, anti roll bar bushes might be well worn check condition, hope you get to the bottom of your problem. 

Drop links were new, but worth checking, fingers crossed she will b b goin to unit18 soon so maybe they can come up with something! I think the top mounts are involved, they were from gsf but I dont think they are very good!