For a while there has been knocking from the front end, but I put this down to various worn joints.
Yesterday my friend and I replaced the anti-roll bar drop links, wishbone bushes, bottom ball joints, track rod ends, and front and rear engine mounts at my mate's garage. All the looseness is gone and the car feels beautifully tight once more, however a knock is still there, and it's coming from the steering rack, plain as day to the ear.
I'm pretty stunned, because it's a facelift car, standard ride height!
There is no creak or grinding noise, only a knock when moving the steering wheel side-to-side, I guess that's the play in the slider being taken up?
I was under the impression that facelift cars shouldn't get this problem.
I'm wondering if there are have been any other instances of facelift steering problems? The car is an '05 with approximately 50k on it (can't remember exact figure).
I have tightened the top mounts (they were tight anyway). The car will drive itself in a straight line (although if you for example, move the steering wheel say 1-degree left or right from centre at a cruising speed of 60, it will continue in that direction slowly. If you yank the wheel from a straight line, it will self-centre), it doesn't want to crash itself, and you could probably drive the car for months and not hear it, not because it isn't there, but because normal driving doesn't put the steering wheel through the same turns required to make the noise happen.
If I sit in the car in the driveway stationary and wiggle the steering left-and-right in quick succession, the knock will be there, matching the steering movement's every move. If I drive on the road and do my normal kind of driving, sweeping corners, roundabouts, you wouldn't know it was there.
I am prepared to do the DIY slider fix, but I was just putting this out there incase anyone else knows about a facelift issue?
Yesterday my friend and I replaced the anti-roll bar drop links, wishbone bushes, bottom ball joints, track rod ends, and front and rear engine mounts at my mate's garage. All the looseness is gone and the car feels beautifully tight once more, however a knock is still there, and it's coming from the steering rack, plain as day to the ear.
I'm pretty stunned, because it's a facelift car, standard ride height!
There is no creak or grinding noise, only a knock when moving the steering wheel side-to-side, I guess that's the play in the slider being taken up?
I was under the impression that facelift cars shouldn't get this problem.
I'm wondering if there are have been any other instances of facelift steering problems? The car is an '05 with approximately 50k on it (can't remember exact figure).
I have tightened the top mounts (they were tight anyway). The car will drive itself in a straight line (although if you for example, move the steering wheel say 1-degree left or right from centre at a cruising speed of 60, it will continue in that direction slowly. If you yank the wheel from a straight line, it will self-centre), it doesn't want to crash itself, and you could probably drive the car for months and not hear it, not because it isn't there, but because normal driving doesn't put the steering wheel through the same turns required to make the noise happen.
If I sit in the car in the driveway stationary and wiggle the steering left-and-right in quick succession, the knock will be there, matching the steering movement's every move. If I drive on the road and do my normal kind of driving, sweeping corners, roundabouts, you wouldn't know it was there.
I am prepared to do the DIY slider fix, but I was just putting this out there incase anyone else knows about a facelift issue?
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