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    Question Steering knock noise

    When I come out of a roundabout or in and out of a driveway I always hear and feel a knock in the right front. I know this is usually caused by failed sway bar link bushes. As a result I had the originals replaced last year for this reason. They were replaced with the 'S' shaped pin and urathane bushes. Now it's happening again.

    What I get cranky about is the original rubber ones lasted 10 years, I replace them with a heavy duty link and unrathane bushes and they're shagged after 1 year.

    Is there any chance it could be something other than swaybar links?
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    ball joint maybe?
    upper strut bush
    the strut it's self
    could be manny things usually if its the stablizer bar pin's gorn the noise is diffrent and you wont get a "clunk" ull get a tinney tappy noise and it will be there all the time over bumps etc...

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    check your tie rod ends / ball / uni joints.

    on a stiffened+lowered commodore, u generally do a set tie rod ends / ball / uni joints every year of hard driving ( based on my experience anyway ).

    although not a front end thing, if u get a loud pop outta the back end on corners / roundabouts look at your diff...

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    Bloody hell. I had the whole front end rebushed by Pedders only a year ago and it's done about 25,000ks since. They'll never see my business again.

    Quote Originally Posted by adept View Post
    check your tie rod ends / ball / uni joints.

    on a stiffened+lowered commodore, u generally do a set tie rod ends / ball / uni joints every year of hard driving ( based on my experience anyway ).

    although not a front end thing, if u get a loud pop outta the back end on corners / roundabouts look at your diff...

    Nope. It's not lowered at all. Standard height.
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