Suspension Rattle

[Daniel1991]

2017 Skoda Fabia MK3

50k miles

 

Hello. 

I have a rattle from my passenger side front suspension area. I taken it to Kwik-Fit, Halfords and an independent garage for a suspension check.

 

2 garages said the lower ball joint had slight play.

1 garage said the drop link and anti roll bar bushes have play.

 

I’ve had the lower ball joint, drop link and both anti roll bar bushes replaced, but the sounds hasn’t changed, possibly worse than before. 
 

I’ve thrown so much money at my car over the past year so don’t want to keep throwing more money at it.

 

I’ve attached a short video of the sound which I’d describe as a rattle.

 

Can anybody advise? 
 

Thanks

 

[nta16]

Hi, welcome.

 

Sorry I can't open your link, might just be me and/or the machine I'm on.

 

I.ve seen on here threads on noises from below on Mk3 Fabias and some like yourself being advised to change this part or that and yet a noise remains (whether anything like your noise obviously I don't know) and my wife's 2015 Fabia Mk3 has had and has various noises from underside and I could guess at one or two of them but until the better weather is here I;m not looking for a couple of the current ones yet.

 

I take the view that the car still brakes, steers and suspension wise rides well (for what it is) and the minimum statutory standards of passing an moT (to one person's opion at just one point in time) are meet so I put up with the annoyance on my wife's car and save my time and hassle and her money for something else the car requires sooner than I'd like.

 

VWSkoda seem to have chosen  to drop parts quality from the Mk2 and certainly Mk1 it seems from what I've read on here and generally thought I'd understood in the past. at 6 years and 41k-miles my wife's car need two new front dampers.  The Dealership supplied, fitted and (premium) charged for replacement dampers were "misting" in less than 12-months but the Dealership passed them at the two subsequent MoTs there.  A neighbour had a 20+ year-old Toyota Yaris still on all factory suspension parts and the same for my mate's 28-year-old Toyota Supra.  Don't fall for this German engineering "quality" stuff (and with BMW and Merc) that mainly went out with the last century.

 

It might be a bushe(es) rather than some of the parts but which bush(es) and/or which parts is the mystery often.

 

If others can hear your link, or you can put it up as an audio or video it might give some info to some but noises can be a real pain to track down without multi-mic kits or similar.

 

The car's weight is generally a lot more force than a bloke with a bar can provide so perhaps the play in those areas might have been some noise and possibly better replaced anyway but that easier on the person getting paid for the work and some bloke on the internet not paying for it, and it hasn't resolved your (main)? issue.. 

 

Sometimes just tightening anything that has come loose (or been left loose) can help a lot.   For bushes sometimes a spay of lubricant on bush or set at a time can help track them down - but that's squeaking not clattering, knocking or banging.  As you see it's not that easy to find these things without time and patience and noises travel it might be something else entirely different and not where you think it originates.  Took me 6-months and taking two different people out in another car to pin down a rattle turned out to be something that was originally suggested and I (thought) I'd originally checked near the very start.  Even my wife let me down that time and she can hear the faults well before I notice them and even name some of them (decades of old car "classics" ownership and daily use).

 

Good luck 

 

[HyperDog]

Does the car rattle all the time?

 

Mine rattles/knocks but only when it has been stood in the cold (winter) for a while.

 

I suspect it is anti roll bar bushes sticking when rigid due to cold and once moved a bit free up and the noise goes.

 

When I got the car I had it checked by main dealers and independent specialists and they could find nothing wrong.

 

60k miles later it still does it (when cold and stood) but is no worse.

Edited 9 March by HyperDog

[lewiswal47]

On 08/03/2024 at 19:52, Daniel1991 said:

2017 Skoda Fabia MK3

50k miles

 

Hello. 

I have a rattle from my passenger side front suspension area. I taken it to Kwik-Fit, Halfords and an independent garage for a suspension check.

 

2 garages said the lower ball joint had slight play.

1 garage said the drop link and anti roll bar bushes have play.

 

I’ve had the lower ball joint, drop link and both anti roll bar bushes replaced, but the sounds hasn’t changed, possibly worse than before. 
 

I’ve thrown so much money at my car over the past year so don’t want to keep throwing more money at it.

 

I’ve attached a short video of the sound which I’d describe as a rattle.

 

Can anybody advise? 
 

Thanks

 

Have a listen to this video below, Do you think it sounds similar?

 

This was caused by a control arm bush, which i’ve also posted a picture of for you as it’s relatively easy to spot if it is this!