In case you have not checked your exhaust rubbers! My Felicia has done 73000 miles (17 years old). I had a rare occasion where 3 passengers were present in my car, so the rear was obviously much lower than when its just me. I heard a terrible scraping vibrating noise, upon inspection you can see the exhaust rubber to the front of the rear silencer is hanging by a thread! Resulting in vibrations on the exhaust and rear axle

all three rubbers are hard and perished, so if you want to replace yours do all three. The two at the front of the rear silencer are slightly different to the one at the rear.

its necessary to slightly bend the retaining clips to remove them with a screwdriver (be careful not to snap it). I simply bent them back with pliers to ensure a tight refitting. In the picture you can see the old rubbers, the rear one is cracking with age so I replaced as a precaution! So if you have not checked under your car for a while, have a quick look, seeing as all fellys are old now

Hopefully these pictures are useful for reference.

where did you get the replacements from?

@J4ck - Any fast fit place should be able to sort you with new rubbers.

Hi J4ck, as Ken said. I got mine at a local independent car part dealer and they sourced me some for a few quid each. As back up I got some from eurocarparts too. Hope that helps. I couldnt find any genuine ones though, which I believe are much higher quality rubber. Since my original post which was a year ago, the replacement rubber has perished and snapped again allready! So buy at least two rubbers if its the cheapo ones

26 minutes ago, Fio said:

I couldnt find any genuine ones though, which I believe are much higher quality rubber.

There are no more "genuine" parts made of rubber. They are all made in China. Big pollution, low quality.

18 minutes ago, RicardoM said:

There are no more "genuine" parts made of rubber. They are all made in China. Big pollution, low quality.

There are. OEM manufacturer, Gumokov/Rubena, is still making them. Well, atleast engine/suspension  bushings. But I'm not sure, if they are exported outside of Czech republic. 

Edited 12 September, 20187 yr by Papez

There is one genuine rubber left on my exhaust and it is in better condition than the cheap ones after 18 years. I have repaired the broken one again with a heavy duty cable tie .Much more economical!

zip ties around the rubber and boom it will be that way for the rest of the cars life