my car has seemed to aquire a knocking sound. The best way i can sort of describe it is ; if you imagine shaking a cardboard box with a few nuts & bolts in the bottom - its a kind of muffled knocking sound which only occours when i go over bumbs at a slow speed and sounds like its more towards the front of the car - it sounds like something is loose but i’ve shaked the exhaust about and it doesnt seem to be that, checked the spare wheel and jack - they’re in tight so its not them. could it be the suspension catching on something?
running out of ideas of what it could be… any one else got any ideas or experienced something similiar?
Most probably the brake pads on one of your corners rattling against the discs.
Mine sounded like a stack of plates in the boot. The numpty grease monkeys hadn’t replaced the brake pad shims or springs on any of the brakes when they did the pads and discs. I do my own work now. At least if it breaks or fails it is my own fault. and I don’t have to leave my car with a building ful of high school drop outs.
You can’t go deleting posts anymore either, like you did on the other forum, Robbie - the new system emails the full post as soon as you press “Post” [;)]
FWIW, full stop should have been a comma and the new forum system deletes the last letter of the word when you delete the space before it for some reason.
I couldn’t be bothered to change such tiny errors in the post. (Starting a sentence with and is acceptable BTW)
I didn’t hit a nerve with the grease monkey comment did I? [;)] You know I wasn’t referring to anyone as experienced as you [:)]
I just get cross at garages employing spotty kids and letting them loose on cars, claiming they are mechanics.
It sounds like it’s on the front drivers side at the bottom of the car directly under the dash. its hard to tell, defintaly the front of the cra though.
i jacked the car up today and checked for any play in the wheels, they seem fine.
god knows, thanks for the responces though. maybe i’ll get ‘paul sheards’ to check it out next time its in for a service.
We developed an annoying knocking sound on Saturday, bad enough to mek me pull over and stop.
The problem was the rubber strip mounted across the back of the engine bay, it had come loose on one side and I guess the airflow was making it sound like a ton of nuts and bolts.
Grasping at straws here but, this has happened to me. Check that there is nothing loose on top of the engine under-tray, something may have been dropped down thru’ the engine and landed on the tray.