Sound of bottoming out
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I always hear the term bottoming out but I really don't know what it sounds like or if it's happening to me. Sometimes when I'm braking alittle harder than normal and I hit a bump at the same time I hear a vibrating metal noise from the front end. Is that bottoming out?
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How low is your car? I lowered mine with coilovers and went down 1.5 or more. About 10k miles later I noticed some knocking around on the drivers side. TOday I went to NTB (tire place) and we found the bushings on the lower control arm to be bad. Lowering the car put excess strain and stretched the bushings. Now they need to be replaced. Put your car on a lift and look at the black bushings on the control arm that connect it to the chassis. If they are torn this could be your problem.
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I haven't lowered mine yet, I got Sportlines but won't put them on until spring because I fear my car won't make it through the winter snow that low. The sound I hear really isn't a knocking sound though more of a metal jarring/vibration sound when hitting a bump while braking. But I'm gonna check out the bushings too juat to be sure and when I go drive today I'll keep my radio off so that I can try to look for any unusual sounds and compare then to your sounds.
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One more thing I've been thinking about, sometimes going over slow bumps I hear a light squeeking noise coming from the rear. I can only hear it when I have the windows up and radio off. Could it be my shocks going bad? I have 43k and I have terrible Chicago roads. I'm gonna be searching in the meantime but I wanna throw it out there to anyone who might now.
EDIT: I found a topic with a similar question, the OP came to the conclusion that is was the exhaust hangar. I noticed I can move my exhaust without much trouble. Well at least I know I won't have too much of a hard time removing the OEM exhaust when I go aftermarket.
EDIT: I found a topic with a similar question, the OP came to the conclusion that is was the exhaust hangar. I noticed I can move my exhaust without much trouble. Well at least I know I won't have too much of a hard time removing the OEM exhaust when I go aftermarket.
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