coilovers are on - but its making strange noises!

[Mckellar]

coilovers are on

The back offside (drivers rear) is making a sort of stretching noise if you lift the back arch upwards, a sort of rusty sounding noise/metal rubbing noise..

i hate explaining noises on cars, mainly cos' you cant, but when u bounce the car it makes that sort of metally grinding sound, pretty loud..

Before i start to strip it down and Do it again, anyone any ideas?

Cheers, david

 

[Brummy]

Ive heard they usually take a wee bit of time to 'settle' so hopefully its just that , fella

 

[Mckellar]

want a pic mate?

 

[OllieL]

Yeah i wanna see it Dude. Oh and i forgot to thank u for sending the spanners cheers dude

 

[Czechboy]

One of my coilovers does it. Try this, jack the car up, but do it so that there is still a little pressure on the spring. Now stick your hand inside the wheel arch and turn the spring by hand. Just literary try and turn the spring as if it were a giant bottle cap you are trying to undo. Only turn it 180 degrees and then bring the car down and see if it is still making the noise. Because they are coilovers, they have plat springs and flat platforms, rather then the spiral ones found on normal shocks. This means that they often make a metal scraping noise.

 

[Mckellar]

cheers mig, excellent il give it a try

managed to get about 60mm upfront with the LCR splitter on and about 70mm rear too

well chuffed