hi guys when i purchased my fabia it came with adjustable coilovers ( unfortunatly i dont know the make ) the car is very low ( i dont know how low it is tbh) when driving i used to get a faint knocking noise, ive been to a few mechanics and they believed it was my drop links, i was also made aware at this point that as my car is lowerd i needed small drop links. so i purchased adjustable links and had these fitted, the faint nosie was still there, i was then told my front wish bone rear bushes needed changing, so i had these changed along side with the ball joints on both sides.

 

believe it or not the faint nosie was still there, this noise is only there when im driving slow but when im driving at some speed i cant hear it. so the other day i was at this mechanics yard with my seat leon and i asked about my fabia and he said that my drop links needed shortning as they might be too big, so i gave him my car and he shortened the links, but this made the nosie louder and more noticable, the noise is now like something is lose on both ends of the car, naturally i went back to the mechanic and he said ill just put them to the normal size and i watched him adjust the links, at this point i was praying that the nosie is gone but infact the nosie is till there same as when they was shortened.

this is really frustrating me now, can anoyone make sense on whats going on.

 

 

 

 

do they have pillow ball mounts on the top of the strut?

 

they might be dry, loose or just worn out and there is some play in them.

 

when do you hear the noise? fast bumps, slow bumps?

 

its entirely possible the dampers are just worn out - but it would depend on how many miles are on them.

 

if there is a damper adjustment, try a softer setting.

If they're cheap coils, they may be knocking on the top mounts. It coiuld be a worn bush on an anti roll bar. Or a loose wheel bolt. The list of "knocks" is endless. Simply switching out random parts until the knocking goes away is going to get expensive, so you'd need to diagnose what exactly is wrong by taking a long hard and systematic look at each part in turn, and preferably on a ramp with an expert, not some bloke who just wants to sell another part.