Working my way through bits to see what’s making an annoying knocking noise in my car. It’s not the drop link 🤬

 

next thing to check is the strut mount. Before I go poking around, is it easy for me to have a look at, or just easier to palm it off to the garage 

there are probably some on car checks you can do with the wheels in the air.

 

to physically check them requires the suspension strut to come out. Fairly easy with the right tools

 

I would personally just take out entire hub with strut. need:

 

Axle stands

jack

Breaker bar/impact gun

ratchet with sockets

large 12 point socket for hub nut

ball joint spreader for tierod end

a pokey thing to undo abs wiring

something to hold brake caliper up to prevent dangling from brake hose. eg string

 

If you actually change the top mounts you will need spring compressors too

 

Hub nuts, balljoint bolts top mount bolts are intended as single use, cheap enough to replace

 

That's most of what you would need as far as i remember

 

7 hours ago, Wench said:

Working my way through bits to see what’s making an annoying knocking noise in my car. It’s not the drop link 🤬

 

next thing to check is the strut mount. Before I go poking around, is it easy for me to have a look at, or just easier to palm it off to the garage 

 

For early cars one thing that always came up was ARB mountings. Plastic collars on a metal bar that fell out or moved causing knocks and some MOT failures. Some topics around in Fabia mk1 and possibly technical.

 

Main thing to check IMO would be the front TCAs into the ball joint carriers and hub and the steering track control arms.

 

When was it MOT'd last?

 

J.

It’s Passed two mots from two different garages, so I doubt anything serious. It’s blinking annoying though. 

 

In the past year it’s had new track rods, new track rod ends, new ARB bushes, new drop links, new suspension arms ? (MoT said suspension arm ball joint covers were a failure so I had them replaced), and it still makes a knocking noise 

I would be checking that the main bolts through the lower arms are properly torqued. They can knock like mad if not.

 

Torque = 70 Nm + 90°

Edited 6 October, 20196 yr by TMB