I had a bad clunking in the front driver side wheel area. It sounded liek the strut was lose or broken. It was a very solid clunk. Not anything like a heat shield rattle or any other kinda of rattle, this is a soild CLUNK...

I was wanting to lower the car anyhow, and I have just over 80k miles on the car, so I figured I would go for it all now... I put brand new Struts and shocks, brand new Strut bushing plates, and Tein springs. I also changed my rotors since they were warped. So All bolts are tight on the brakes, all joints, bushings and suspension bolts appear to the tight. The sway bar links appear to be in great shape also.... The steering has no play in it...

I am completely stumped... I don't have any idea what the clunking could be coming from. Are there any notorious issues with the front ends of these cars that I should be looking into????

 

Anyone ever have a clunking in the front suspension????

 

Check the swaybar endlinks

 

99% it is the swaybar endlink. I had mine coming out of the rear and it turned out my endlink had snapped. I went with SPL and the noise completely went away.

 

I think I have the same exact noise. Do u hear it every time u hit ruff roads? Like clunk clink clunk ? lol

 

yup, slow speeds with ruff roads was the only time i noticed it.

 

yeah... sounds like it... BUT we just had the sway bars lose when we dropped the car. The end links were not broken and they looked fine... Is it not easy to see when the link is messed up???

 

well mine started that clunking noise and the some time later it just split in half. I got aftermarket sways though on their hardest setting.
They dont have to be broken to make moise though.

 

so what is the best fix? bushing kit? new end links? or just a whole new sway bar setup? I just hate to spend a bunch of money on a new swaybar setup when I will never push the car hard enough to notice the difference.

 

what year is ur car?

 

This is for a 05 coupe.
here they are for rear sway endlinks
Here they are for the fronts

 

03 Coupe 5AT. Would NAPA sell those also?

 

I wouldn't think so, go to the dealer and it is usually double the price that was listed in the link.

 

Yup, check the endlink nut. They have a way of working themselves loose. A little dab of Loctite will help too.

 

Did you figure out the problem?

I had a clinking noise when I did my suspension. Turned out that the top hat of the strut was loose. could be that if it's not the end link