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General Information => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: eddie4k on March 19, 2011, 03:40:24 am

Title: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: eddie4k on March 19, 2011, 03:40:24 am

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

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on March 19, 2011, 10:43:03 am

probably never had a sway bar..

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: rabbitman on March 19, 2011, 11:48:25 pm

Quote from: R.O.R-2.0 on March 19, 2011, 10:43:03 am

probably never had a sway bar..

X2

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on March 20, 2011, 12:51:11 pm

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..

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: eddie4k on March 21, 2011, 01:58:17 am

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..!

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on March 21, 2011, 09:59:35 am

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

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: eddie4k on March 24, 2011, 09:03:13 am

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

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: nathan_b on March 24, 2011, 11:14:48 pm

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

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on March 25, 2011, 09:16:55 am

Quote from: nathan_b on March 24, 2011, 11:14:48 pm

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..

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: nathan_b on March 25, 2011, 07:41:07 pm

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.

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: 8v-of-fury on March 25, 2011, 08:49:05 pm

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.

:D lol

glad you got it sorted out :)

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: smutts on March 26, 2011, 05:32:32 am

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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. ;D 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. ???

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on March 26, 2011, 10:08:06 am

Quote from: smutts on March 26, 2011, 05:32:32 am

Quote

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. ;D 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..

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: Thezorn on March 31, 2011, 02:22:20 am

Quote from: 8v-of-fury on March 25, 2011, 08:49:05 pm

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.

:D 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.

Title: Re: Anti Roll Bar Missing????
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on April 01, 2011, 07:22:13 am

Quote from: Thezorn on March 31, 2011, 02:22:20 am

Quote from: 8v-of-fury on March 25, 2011, 08:49:05 pm

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.

:D 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.