EB255GTX
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Putting this in the "general" area of the forums because I welcome ideas or experiences from any model..
2007 VE V8 Calais - has developed a noise from what sounds like the front drivers side.
I can't pin it down to acceleration or braking, turning, or bumps but it most often happens on bumps at low speed. Sometimes I can get 20km without it happenning other times it seems like every bump or the occasional turn, or turning while hitting a bump, and sometimes just hard acceleration will do it....driving me a bit batty to be honest!
I have had it at a friendly mechanic's shop on the hoist and helped him go over every fastener in the front end, suspension, steering rack etc, no joy. The car only has 70,000km and everything seems good and tight. While it was up in the air we checked all the heatshields, exhaust mounts and position, anything else we could get at.
He said maybe the shock absorber internals, but also that should be more repeatable if so.
When the clunk happens it is not huge, but can be (just) felt thru the steering wheel or if your foot is on the footrest (auto trans) you juust feel it, so somethign is shifting or hitting some part of the body or frame, or transmitting the thunk through it.
My mind gives me images af something like a loose battery - something heavy moving, but the battery is in the boot and is well secured.
This weekend i'm going to have a damn good look in the engine bay and up in the guards for anything....but does anyone have any hints on what else i could look at?
If it can't be found, and dosesn't seem to be causing any trouble, i guess i have to wait till it gets worse or something falls off!
P.S. what would have been great, althogh embarrasing, would have been to find a socket dropped into the subframe or something but no....
2007 VE V8 Calais - has developed a noise from what sounds like the front drivers side.
I can't pin it down to acceleration or braking, turning, or bumps but it most often happens on bumps at low speed. Sometimes I can get 20km without it happenning other times it seems like every bump or the occasional turn, or turning while hitting a bump, and sometimes just hard acceleration will do it....driving me a bit batty to be honest!
I have had it at a friendly mechanic's shop on the hoist and helped him go over every fastener in the front end, suspension, steering rack etc, no joy. The car only has 70,000km and everything seems good and tight. While it was up in the air we checked all the heatshields, exhaust mounts and position, anything else we could get at.
He said maybe the shock absorber internals, but also that should be more repeatable if so.
When the clunk happens it is not huge, but can be (just) felt thru the steering wheel or if your foot is on the footrest (auto trans) you juust feel it, so somethign is shifting or hitting some part of the body or frame, or transmitting the thunk through it.
My mind gives me images af something like a loose battery - something heavy moving, but the battery is in the boot and is well secured.
This weekend i'm going to have a damn good look in the engine bay and up in the guards for anything....but does anyone have any hints on what else i could look at?
If it can't be found, and dosesn't seem to be causing any trouble, i guess i have to wait till it gets worse or something falls off!
P.S. what would have been great, althogh embarrasing, would have been to find a socket dropped into the subframe or something but no....