I am after some advice on a weird suspension creak on my fabia 1.2 htp. It only happens going over speed bumps and never occurs at any other time. When going over them i get a creak from the front o/s of the car, if i go over them slowly like below 5mph its fine any faster and i get the creak like a door that needs a good deal of wd-40. I have checked all the bushes around the wheel area and all appear intact and are not worn in anyway and it passed it MOT approx 7 months ago and nothing was brought up then. Has anyone else had this problem?? is it just one of them need lubricating?? I dont really want to get anything major replaced its just happening when going over speed bumps. Luckily with 95% of my travel i go nowhere near them

Edited 1 March, 20188 yr by timey74

I used to get a similar creak on my Octy and used to spray all bushes suspension and subframe bushes with silicone spray every few months and it seems to keep it at bay.  Not sure if Fabia has same issues but bushes used to dry and creak on my Octy although perfectly intact. 

thanks for the advice, its damn annoying as they all seem perfectly intact yet still this creaking and to be honest it has got much noiser this last few days with this cold weather which makes me think one of them somewhere is dry and hard with the temperatures being so low

Edited 1 March, 20188 yr by timey74

More than likely then.  I used to have a mk4 Astra estate and subframe bushes were horrible on that for drying out and creaking to the point I considered inventing a drip feed lubrication system to lubricate them lol

 

might also be worth doing top mounts as well while your there. Won’t do them any harm 

Edited 1 March, 20188 yr by Mikek3111

ARB bushes or droplinks?

1 hour ago, xman said:

ARB bushes or droplinks?

ARB bushes, a friend of mine has said it may be this as it is only happening when going over speedbumps. Advised me to just leave it until the next MOT is due and get them replaced then as its only 5 months off as it will just probably be a little warn and will not cause any damage

Edited 1 March, 20188 yr by timey74

Is the creak something like this ?

 

Edited 1 March, 20188 yr by Filipelol

a little but not as loud and coming from the front. that creaking on that video sounds very bad what was it

Edited 1 March, 20188 yr by timey74

its the creak that I normally have going on uneven roads or reversing on a driveway, its just exaggerated because I was jacking the car, don't know what causes it.

On 01/03/2018 at 15:27, Mikek3111 said:

I used to get a similar creak on my Octy and used to spray all bushes suspension and subframe bushes with silicone spray every few months and it seems to keep it at bay.  Not sure if Fabia has same issues but bushes used to dry and creak on my Octy although perfectly intact. 

 

On 01/03/2018 at 15:43, Mikek3111 said:

More than likely then.  I used to have a mk4 Astra estate and subframe bushes were horrible on that for drying out and creaking to the point I considered inventing a drip feed lubrication system to lubricate them lol

 

might also be worth doing top mounts as well while your there. Won’t do them any harm 

 

Thank you again for all your advice, purchased some silicone spray and got under the car and the wheel arches and sprayed every bush i could find especially the ARB bushes and decided to go out and find some speed bumps the noise has vastly reduced, you have to turn everything off - the radio, the fan and really hear for it, you still slighty hear it and i mean slighty but nothing as bad as before its was like something from a horror movie . How can a small piece of rubber be soooo loud

same exact issue as you. I took off the ARB bushes, put some car lube on them. worked instantly.