Noisy suspension

[ripp]

Hi guys,
My 182 FF was always kinda noisy when it handled road bumps, even when completely stock.
Now I have gaz gha coilies, k tec solid mounts and arb poly bushes, dog bone and k tec engine mounts so everything's pretty tight.
I have the car cheched from underneath several times and only once one mechanic noticed a calipet carrier on the front that had a little play in it so I replaced it.
After having the new style rear coilovers installed from gaz about 15 months ago, there was a slight knock from the rear also (noises untill that point came from the front only). Found a member here which solved the problem by replacing some small parts under warranty from gaz so I'm about to do the same.
But the front end is still noisy, the shoks aren't leaking, everything looks good so far.
Am I missing something? After 11 years of ownership it started to annoy me and now I really wanna sort it out once and for all..
Cheers!

 

[James363]

How are your wishbone bushes, rear axle bushes and front ball joints? Its a knocking noise I presume?

 

[ripp]

they are all fine mate, as said, the car has been checked several times and nothing obvious was found except once- the caliper carier, but had that sorted and still the same.
There is no loud noise coming from somewhere, it's just that on rougher surfaces you can hear tiny knocks coming from both axles, just a noisy suspension overall.
The whole car just seems like it's not welded together properly when passing rough terrain (yeah it's a renault but others I got into werent nearly as bad)

 

[Jekyll]

I had a noise for a while that was bugging me up the front.

I changed top mounts, suspension (had it with Gaz's and my current Bilsteins) track rods inners, track rod outters, ball joints, front bearings.

After all that, it turned out to be that my ball joint section on the front hub had oversized somehow, meaning the ball joint was slightly loose over certain terrain. I bought a second hand hub (and fitted a new genuine bearing again) and it has been quiet ever since.

Might be worth getting it up in the air to check if you have the same issue?

 

[James363]

I think with solid tops you'll get a certain amount of noise you wouldn't normally expect... Its hard to say really, having not heard the noise myself, but my 172 Cup is pretty loud

 

[ripp]

I had a noise for a while that was bugging me up the front.

I changed top mounts, suspension (had it with Gaz's and my current Bilsteins) track rods inners, track rod outters, ball joints, front bearings.

After all that, it turned out to be that my ball joint section on the front hub had oversized somehow, meaning the ball joint was slightly loose over certain terrain. I bought a second hand hub (and fitted a new genuine bearing again) and it has been quiet ever since.

Might be worth getting it up in the air to check if you have the same issue?

Is the hub hole issue easy to spot? no one saw anything so far
But I'll definitely have a closer look at this, thanks!

I think with solid tops you'll get a certain amount of noise you wouldn't normally expect... Its hard to say really, having not heard the noise myself, but my 172 Cup is pretty loud

I can understand that solid mounts equals more sound but it's louder than expected though

 

[Jekyll]

It's easy to spot if it's on the ramps as you can use a pry bar on the bottom arms as leverage to see if there is play.

I'm not saying that yours is this issue but it was mine after much confusion and parts changed.