Hi Everyone

 

I have recently been suffering from a 'clonking' noise (cant think of a better word) when pulling off in 1st gear and when accelerating hard in 2nd and 3rd. Then clonks again when letting off the throttle.

 

The noise sounds like it comes from the front passenger side and can be felt under your feet when sitting in the passenger side.

 

It happens pretty much everytime when pulling off no matter how gentley etc.

 

I have had the car up in the air at a local garage and all the bushes etc seem to look fine and there doesnt seem to be any obvious movement.

 

Anyone got any ideas? :S

 

Thanks

possibley rear engine mount (dogbone) the bush is inside the subframe so not sure you could see it without removing 

if you have a quiet yard / road you could always get your missus / mate to set off in the car and stop a few times with the bonnet open (obviously not too fast or hard) to see whats going on

I changed the bogbone mount yesterday for a superpro one, this has made no difference to the clonking noise ( but has made it harder to hear due to vibrations lol)

 

I will see if I can get someone to check whilst moving, only really need to pull off in 1st to replicate the sound.

I have this same issue! If you can get a passenger, ask them to feel under the glove box, feels like somthing is hitting it from the engine bay region/just behind glove box.

Try going along a road 30 or above and brake quite hard over metal grids ( wet is better) if it makes the banging noise then it will be your rear console bushes

They are a nice little job to do and I bought flow flex ones off ebay ( allot easier than original to fit)

Unfortunately I dont know where there are any metal grids where I live, I assume you mean cattle grids?

Nooo.. metal grids. Man hole covers . Every road will have them lol

About 3ft by 3ft

My mistake I thought you meant cattle grids lol.

 

So to update, I found the cause of the conking noise - by the top gearbox mount snapping

It seems that when I had an uprated clutch fitted, the supposed mechanic did not put the front bolt for the gearbox mount in properly. This meant the rear 2 bolts were under strain and snapped leaving the thread in the box and my engine hanging!!