Ok i have ordered the droplinks, should be here tomorrow, hope to get them fitted early next week. Just hope this sorts it out, if not new droplinks can't be a bad thing. Noise seems worse when on a roundabout, im starting to think it may well be the balljoint, supose their's no real way to check them?

Jack the car up and wobble the wheel left and right/up and down. With reasonable force, play could be felt in mine. I guess it depends how far gone they are.

Jack the car up and wobble the wheel left and right/up and down. With reasonable force, play could be felt in mine. I guess it depends how far gone they are.

Cheers mate, bit like checking a wheel bearing then.

Update on this, so i fitted the droplinks and guess what? ....... yep the noise is still there!

So now what? may have to get some one to have a look at it but i cant see anything obvious.

Seems to do it more when turning right, also now started making a noise when i go up my driveway which is slighty sloped! :confused:

Have you considered wishbone bushes to be at fault? Your fault sounds familiar, I wrongly assumes arb and links and I changed them first only to find it was the rear bushes on the wishbones causing my noises

Wishbone bushes have been done mate, get new poly ones. Had new arb bar and bushes too, new shocks koni's so im stumped! May be it's the ball joint?

By ball joint, do you mean the outer CV joints?

I'd have thought ball joints would be the lower steering swivels, rather than the CV joints.

And those are the same as track rod ends yeah? Where the track rod joins the pitman arm?

Track rod ends are easy enough to check for play, as there should be none.

Have you checked them yet mate?

They look like rod ends, but without the sleeves for screwing onto the rods. They connect the upright to the wishbone rather than to the trackrod.

Ahhhar! I'm finally with you, I know exactly what you mean now.

Skoda call it the 'steering joint' or 'axle joint'. Connects bottom of upright to the end of the wishbone.

I'm so slow....

Can you get poly versions, or would that just be pointless?

The standard ones are hardened steel! The (relatively) soft pivot joint on the strut is at the top.

do they have rubber bellows around them then, that just keep them clean? (the steering joint that is).

i just saw rubber and assumed......

Some of them certainly do.

do they have rubber bellows around them then, that just keep them clean? (the steering joint that is).

i just saw rubber and assumed......

Yes they do.

Why don't you get your hand round the low ball joints, track rod ends, rear front arm bushes with an assistant swinging the steering madly half a turn left to right and back while you do it to take up the slack. ANY play and they need to be replaced.

Grab the links or use a bar to test the ARB links with the car front end on axle stands.

Better to actually replace what is faulty than guess.

Greg.

Ok i've done a search and found a few threads regarding a clunking noise when turning sharp left, seems it could be droplinks. I have this noise and it's getting worse the reason i think it is the droplinks is because i have replaced the front arb/ bushes, fitted superpro wishbone bushes and recently had new koni fsd dampers, and the standard springs are all ok. So it seems to point to the droplinks, yes? I think they fairly cheap to buy, anyone know the part no/ price? Need to sort this bloody clunking sound out, it was quiet for a while when i had the new arb fitted but it's back worse then before now. cheers.

Yeah true mate, but think i'll leave it for someone else to investigate, im not really hands on.

Gmaster, did you get this sorted. This sounds the same issue as mine. I have fitted new wishbone bushes, R32 FARB and powerflex bushes and bottom ball joints just replaced. The drop links were changed 2 months ago. Although I had to undo them to replace ARB so could have disturbed them. It is quite a loud clonk I get that does not seem to be linked to speed / turning etc. If I was to put money on it I would say it feels like the ARB touching something, although don't know what. What I can say is that the R32 ARB has quite big Bush end stops(that stop the bar sliding left/right) compared to the standard 19mm skoda ones. Looking down at the bar from the engine it looks like they are very close to the subframe (where the bolt goes up to the chassis)

Other then that I am lost.

Cheers

Mark.

hmmm

could it be the subframe bolts - did a bit of a lame web search and it came up....

I know some bolts have a torque and then a further amount in degrees...

just a thought

Bowders, yeah ths noise has gone, and i'd love to tell you what it was but never really did found out, or may have just forgotten, since i first posted this ive had new springs, don't think have had anything else replaced so a bit stumped but ive not had this noise for a long time. (though i have a new noise recently a nice squeak! )

hmmm

could it be the subframe bolts - did a bit of a lame web search and it came up....

I know some bolts have a torque and then a further amount in degrees...

just a thought

Don't think it is this as I torqued them up and then a further 90 degrees as required. The noise feels like a bar clunking. Maybe the gearbox mount but does not feel that side. Stumped.......I am going to go around all the bolts I changed just to be sure though.

Update to this thread , finnally found the culprit on mine. It was the Drop links. They were actually lose!. I can only blame myself as I changed the ARB few weeks back. The passenger side was slightly lose. A few turns and re torque did the trick. It was a tough one to find as when driving the the noise did not feel like drop links as it was quite loud and the noise transferred through the whole length of the subframe making me suspect something else. After getting someone to bounce the car up and down with ear close to wheel then put hand through wheel and held droplink and could feel it straight away.

Mark