Good morning, 

 

I have a fairly bad knock coming from the left hand side of my 2007 Octy VRS TFSI, in 2017 the car had new struts, top mounts, console bushes and drop links fitted, ive had a good go with a pry bar on the bushes and arb bushes but everything seems ok so far as I can tell. 

 

Its a knock rather than a rattle, and it does it over sharp bumps, even very tiny ones. Can get it to make the sound when rolling slowly 5-10mph and tapping the brake pedal. 

 

My main quesion is, when I have the car jacked up, wheel off, then apply a jack to the arm to lift it up again I probably have about 5-6mm of vertical movement in the top of the damper shaft (looking from above at the top of the top mount). I know theres a few bushings etc in the top mount but is that sort of play normal? 

 

Many thanks, 

 

Warren. 

Compare damper rod threads showing with good side, perhaps the nut has come loose or wasn't tightened properly.