Anti Roll Bar Missing????

[eddie4k]

Hi all,

Trying to diagnose suspension noise on golf mk3 diesel (1.9 n/a 1Y) thought might be anti roll bar loose or snapped mounts off (Had happen before on other cars) but can't even seem too see anti roll bar!! can see in the wishbones mounting holes for it. is it connected elsewhere??

Did it ever have one

 

Thanks

[R.O.R-2.0]

probably never had a sway bar..

[rabbitman]

probably never had a sway bar..

X2

[R.O.R-2.0]

most cars dont have front sway bars unless they are a sportier model of car..

the Jetta/Golf (base models) never really got sway bars, but the GLI/GTI got sway bars front and rear..

[eddie4k]

Thanks..

Noise turned out to be brake pad rattle anyway!

Good to know it was never there though and not fallen or taken off by previous owner or something like that..!

[R.O.R-2.0]

brake pad rattle is a hard one to track down.. and annoying as all hell!

[eddie4k]

Changing the pads was the last thing i did on the car.. figured I'd start by checking those...

[nathan_b]

I would still check the strut bearings, they are ignored so hard core, most are bad anyways.

[R.O.R-2.0]

I would still check the strut bearings, they are ignored so hard core, most are bad anyways.

he already got rid of the rattle..

strut bearings sound WAY different than brake pad rattle..

[nathan_b]

Agreed, but it they sound a lot like what a broken or mis mounted sway bar would, he never actually described the sound at all.

[8v-of-fury]

brake pad rattle is the easiest thing to diagnose.

Noise on bumps? smallest bumps in the road? does it go away with the lightest application of the brakes? Brake pad rattle.

lol

glad you got it sorted out

[smutts]

Noise on bumps? smallest bumps in the road? does it go away with the lightest application of the brakes? Brake pad rattle.

So thought I too, until I found a broken strut spring. Quiet now.

Just to thread jack, often when dead dampers, shocks, get swapped out, people often bodge getting the notched strut nut (that holds the top mount tight to the spring and damper rod) tight enough. Then lots of looking for that weird rattle.

[R.O.R-2.0]

Noise on bumps? smallest bumps in the road? does it go away with the lightest application of the brakes? Brake pad rattle.

So thought I too, until I found a broken strut spring. Quiet now.

Just to thread jack, often when dead dampers, shocks, get swapped out, people often bodge getting the notched strut nut (that holds the top mount tight to the spring and damper rod) tight enough. Then lots of looking for that weird rattle.

yea, on mk2/3 cars.. i had a rattle like this once.. then i made a socket to tighten that weird notched nut..

[Thezorn]

brake pad rattle is the easiest thing to diagnose.

Noise on bumps? smallest bumps in the road? does it go away with the lightest application of the brakes? Brake pad rattle.

lol

glad you got it sorted out

You wouldnt believe how long it took me to think of this haha, but it is deffinatley the easiest way to figure it out.

[R.O.R-2.0]

brake pad rattle is the easiest thing to diagnose.

Noise on bumps? smallest bumps in the road? does it go away with the lightest application of the brakes? Brake pad rattle.

lol

glad you got it sorted out

You wouldnt believe how long it took me to think of this haha, but it is deffinatley the easiest way to figure it out.

i drove around for thousands of miles with the pads rattling on my black rabbit, half of the reason i never fixed it was i didnt really care much, and never knew what was rattling. then i put new pads on it, and new clips, and it was SILENT.