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Anti Roll Bar Missing????
by
eddie4k
on 19 Mar, 2011 03:40
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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
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#1
by
R.O.R-2.0
on 19 Mar, 2011 10:43
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probably never had a sway bar..
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#2
by
rabbitman
on 19 Mar, 2011 23:48
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probably never had a sway bar..
X2
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#3
by
R.O.R-2.0
on 20 Mar, 2011 12:51
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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..
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#4
by
eddie4k
on 21 Mar, 2011 01:58
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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..!
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#5
by
R.O.R-2.0
on 21 Mar, 2011 09:59
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brake pad rattle is a hard one to track down.. and annoying as all hell!
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#6
by
eddie4k
on 24 Mar, 2011 09:03
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Changing the pads was the last thing i did on the car.. figured I'd start by checking those...
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#7
by
nathan_b
on 24 Mar, 2011 23:14
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I would still check the strut bearings, they are ignored so hard core, most are bad anyways.
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#8
by
R.O.R-2.0
on 25 Mar, 2011 09:16
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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..
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#9
by
nathan_b
on 25 Mar, 2011 19:41
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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.
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#10
by
8v-of-fury
on 25 Mar, 2011 20:49
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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
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#11
by
smutts
on 26 Mar, 2011 05:32
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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.
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.
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#12
by
R.O.R-2.0
on 26 Mar, 2011 10:08
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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. 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..
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#13
by
Thezorn
on 31 Mar, 2011 02:22
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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.
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#14
by
R.O.R-2.0
on 01 Apr, 2011 07:22
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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.