Re: Help Identifying noise
Check you brake pads are not loose in tbe video it looks like it only happens when you brake
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Thanks I will check but it happens when I accelerate as well
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Re: Help Identifying noise
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fourringsrus
Gearbox mountings??
I checked these yesterday. I can see the big one at the back of the gearbox and two small ones on either side. Are there any more?
Anyway they are all fine. In fact all the bushes for the gearbox, engine and sub-frame mounts, aside from a bit of dirt, look like new (they aren't but the car has been dry stored for my entire ownership, which is the last 8 years) and I can get little to no movement out of them with a pry bar.
The only thing I could find that was shot was the snub mount which Audi appear to have made from chocolate sponge.
Today I checked the brakes and all was tight there also. I took out the pads and cleaned it all up and re-seated them just to be sure.
Re: Help Identifying noise
Get it on a a four poster ramp try to replicate the noise with someone under having look to see were its coming from
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arman123
Get it on a a four poster ramp try to replicate the noise with someone under having look to see were its coming from
My next option will be taking to a garage but I could not replicate the noise with the wheels off the ground, so it's only happening under load so I'm not sure a ramp is going to help.
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Listening to the video again and reading your findings again, I am thinking that your noise occurs when either unloading or loading the suspension.
A broken spring should have noticed on the MOT inspection
Control arms you say are all good
Strut top mounts?
Anti-roll bar mounts/bushes ? ( dont always show on MOT )
Drop links?
Certainly seems suspension related to me now.
Stuart
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Originally Posted by
fourringsrus
Listening to the video again and reading your findings again, I am thinking that your noise occurs when either unloading or loading the suspension.
A broken spring should have noticed on the MOT inspection
Control arms you say are all good
Strut top mounts?
Anti-roll bar mounts/bushes ? ( dont always show on MOT )
Drop links?
Certainly seems suspension related to me now.
Stuart
Thanks for looking.
Spring looks fine and putting a pry bar in it doesn't produce any noise.
Top control arms are brand new. Bottom ones all look good with no undue movement.
Anti roll bar bushes look good and again with little to no movement with a pry bar
Strut top mounts are difficult to test other than the fact that they don't make any noise on turning from lock to lock which I would expect. Is there a way to test them without taking the whole strut out?
I don't think it has drop links?? It has links between the anti roll bar and the bottom control arm and they look OK.
However the fact that it does make the noise going over speed bumps on just the right side does seem to indicate that it might be suspension related. I just can't flipping find anything!
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You say the car has been dry stored for 8 years, does that mean parked up/ unused for 8 years or just that it has always been a garaged car.
If unused then a lot of bushes could be dried out or perished but not necessarily showing failure.