Ok well it’s in the third garage trying to find the problem, I don’t think they will locate it though.

 

my car makes a horrible knocking sound from the front drivers side, sounds somewhere over the wheel/suspension. Happens if I’m doing 30/40 down a rough country lane, can’t say it it happens at faster speeds or not on smaller roads (nothing to drive on really any faster than 40mph). Doesn’t do it on motorways/well maintained A roads. 

 

It sounds like something is loose. Nothing should be wrong with the major “parts” of the suspension; has passed two MoT’s with the knocking noise, as well as having mostly new parts, and looked at by two mechanics.

 

so today the garage are looking at the wishbone bolts (i think correct terminology), checking the coil spring and something else I can’t remember.

 

I’ve personally changed the rubber “bump stop” underneath the engine lid, as it looked more worn on the drivers side, and fiddled around with its “height” setting; this hasn’t made any difference. 

 

Any more ideas before I go insane listening to it?

I think I've read in here that a broken coil spring can cause this. The break was at the top of the spring but wasn't visible normally, so the front needs jacked up to take the weight off the spring and allow a fuller inspection.

 

p.s. My memory's not great.

Edited 11 December, 20196 yr by Tolpol62

Well I’ve just got back from the garage and they have found a few things wrong, inc coil spring problem 

Fingers crossed that fixes the problem.

On 13/12/2019 at 04:04, vindaloo said:

Fingers crossed that fixes the problem.

I would expect it to do so... it only started making the noise after the coil spring previously had work done on it