Went over a speedbump today and a godawful clanging sound came from the front offside (it seemed). I looked in my mirrors as I drove off to see if something had fallen off the car, nothing.
I continued up the road and it clanged again.
Went round a roundabout later and as I straightened up it clanged again.
I've taken a quick look under the car and around the arches and can't see anything obviously untoward.
Bizarre. Any ideas from the R600 Ti crew?
are the discs shielded?
in news: snipped-for-privacy@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "fishman" slurred :
I have _zero_ experience of working on the Ti, but I had a similar effect on my 205 recently - turned out to be a broken spring. It occasionally clanged going over speedbumps, but mostly was noticeable when manouvering.
O course the Ti suspension is completely different to the 205, so that's probably irrelevant :-)
[...Clang!...]
Ditto.
While back, BMW 740 - still a broken spring.
When it first happened there was a "kersproyong" and then occasional clangs as the now detached top coil hit the remainder of the spring.
A quick guddle in the spring seat should confirm - beware sharp bits at the break.
Struts 'n' coils innit...
If it ain't a spring check the brake backplates.
A
Pointless fact that may or may not help diagnosis - it has wishbone suspension :)
Maybe the gearbox was left behind? it may have been hiding behind the speed bump being that there so fooking big nowadays
nope.. if it's any consolation, mine scrapes (possibly tyre scraping against something) when I do a hard lock turn to the right - but it doesn't do it when turning hard to the left.. it's done it for quite a while and never got round to sussing it out ;)
Bigus
*contender for most useless reply to thread*
Well mine started doing that since I had new tyres fitted, not on hard turns but usually on large diameter roundabouts if I'm pressing on a bit. Been making funny, similar noises while reversing too. I'll have to get under the car and have a good poke around.
The noise in my OP does sound like I've broken a spring though :(
Spring sticking in the spring mount, so it's twisting in the mount as you turn the wheel (rather than rotating in it's mount as it should) and then twanging round to where it's meant to be ?
Ask on
Broken spring.
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In news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, DanTXD decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
Pointless fact number two.
Even if a car has wishbone suspension, it still needs springs somewhere [1]
[1] Unless for some insane reason it's not sprung in any way
My car doesn't have any springs. Does that make it insane?
Douglas
Nope, because your car is sprung and damped by pressurised oil / gas "spheres", as well you know, you young scamp.
Wow, that sounds pretty insane to me!
Bugger, "Rumbled again our kid".
Douglas
I know, i just thought it might help :)
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