Coilover noise
09-27-2010, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by AP2 NAG,Sep 26 2010, 09:00 PM
I love my BC coilovers, but i noticed during the cold temps. it makes kind of a creaching noise when going slowly over bumps. Did your coils happen to make this??
09-27-2010, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by DFWs2k,Sep 27 2010, 07:36 AM
Not that i have ever heard, but I don't go that slowly over bumps
09-27-2010, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by S2k_MoZo,Sep 27 2010, 10:08 AM
I had that noise on the coilovers you got from Tin, I just hosed the springs and all the bushings down with silicon grease and they have been quiet since. If they get too dry and all those bushings...they make noise but key is to keep them lubed up!
09-27-2010, 09:44 AM
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Np...just to clear, it's not that clunking noise but the squeaking noise...like bushing or spring making squeaks...sorry if I wasn't clear...doing too many things at the same time!!
09-27-2010, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by S2k_MoZo,Sep 27 2010, 11:44 AM
Np...just to clear, it's not that clunking noise but the squeaking noise...like bushing or spring making squeaks...sorry if I wasn't clear...doing too many things at the same time!!
04-07-2011, 09:22 AM
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During cold temperature it does make a creaking noise which is normal but the clunk I encountered is very audible. Okay so I took it to my technicians shop and had it diagnosed. He said " the heim joint (pillowball) has worn out in it's seat. Looks like I'm going to have to do a warranty.
04-09-2011, 04:33 PM
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I took several different approaches. The first time I just asked for a warranty, so I did. 2 weeks later the sound came back. So I decided to switch the one I just got exchanged to the opposite side. The sound had traveled to the side I swapped it to. So automatically I knew it had to have been on that one coilover. After being annoyed, I decided to take it apart and see if putting washers on the collars that separate the pilowball on the upper mount and underside of the mount would distort the noise. The sound definitely was less audible but still there. I took it even further and took apart another set of coilovers and switched top hats and that solved my problem.
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