KNOCKING added to CLUNKING sound from front end

[m6vwc 0]

thought i'd start a new topic for this one even though it's related to the one i placed last week. riving to work on the m62 the other day the clunking from the passenger side at parking speeds was joined by a distinctive (and quite scary!) knocking from under the drivers side. VAG quoted my £123 per side just for the labour to change the top mounts but i managed to get it in a german car specialists called swifts in sheffield. turns out whoever'd fitted my koni/eibach set up had fitted the wrong springs at the front. vw changed the top caps from a large to a small one in december '04 but most spring manufacturers don't make springs for the later cars. apparently eibach do but whoever'd fiited them had fitted the earlier ones instead. great! over time the front springs have managed to work their way round the top cap so that they were knocking against the bodywork of the car. nice! don't know exaclty how dangeros this is but it didn't sound to healthy. thanks to sat at stealth (for the advice) swifts are awiting the arrival of a new set of the old style top caps to fit to the tops of my konis. hopefully everything should be done and dusted by mondat afternoon. yippee! can't wait to get it back as i'm presuming it's going to handle even better than i thought it did already. sorry for the length of the topic but just thought i'd throw it up here unless anyone else was experiencing a similar problem on a post december '04 vr6. will let you know if it sorts it out next week. until then...

[Supercharged 2]

Jesus, not good but hopefully will be sorted soon!!

 

Have you thought about changing the springs for H&R's as they're coming apart?? Suprised Stealth didn't sell you some as they hate the Eibachs!

[m6vwc 0]

read about the h&r springs on here but just wanted to get it back on the road for now. feels loads better than it did. i don't cringe every time i'm turning the steering wheel any more which is rather nice and the ride in general feels less crashy. definitely considering the h&rs though. happy with the eibach's for now but if they're supposed to be better then...