cooler weather has brought out a front end squeek on the front end of my '96 850....sounds like a strut tower needs silicon sprayed...really what is sounds like is an old '56 chevy ball joint squeek that i used to hear on my dad's chevy back in '59......up and down front end motion produces the noise...more annoying than anything else...what's the short term solution? long term?
regards
Typically it's the inner ball ends on the tie rods that scrunch-scrunch over bumps. Ideally though you need someone to do knee drops on the bumper as you crawl around under the car feeling for the source of the noise. Could be sway bar bushings, or ball joints, the shock or the upper strut mount. About the only thing you can't put you finger on would be a tie rod inner joint.
Bob
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