HI everyone,
Ive been living with a 'clonk' sound from below for a while now, although now its becoming a bit more prominent and worrisome! its 2013 panda 4x4 twinair. it drives well, and nothing feels wrong with the handling or otherwise.
Its related to suspension, so sounds on any bumps in the road. it sounds like a loose, heavy ish component being knocked into something adjacent.
I had assumed it was the exhaust flexi hanger letting the exhaust pipe hit something, but after ive been underneath and checked everything over veryt thoroughly, ive come up empty. Ive checked every nut bolt, ball joint, spring, bush i could get my hands/socket onto underneath and cant see anything amiss. all tight. while driving, it sounds approximately to come from below the gearstick area. the front ball joints are all solid and no knocking. access to down below through the engine is v difficult and crampt (im used to working on a 1984 transporter, so loads of room in the engine bay to work in!), and so i cane feel anything loose in there either.
the eld works as normal. the propshaft feels good, has a *tiny ammount of play but i suppose thats normal. as i say, it happens over bumps and vibrations.
thought id ask if there was anything familiar about this- weve only had it since december, so pretty new to the car.
thanks all!!
john
Ive been living with a 'clonk' sound from below for a while now, although now its becoming a bit more prominent and worrisome! its 2013 panda 4x4 twinair. it drives well, and nothing feels wrong with the handling or otherwise.
Its related to suspension, so sounds on any bumps in the road. it sounds like a loose, heavy ish component being knocked into something adjacent.
I had assumed it was the exhaust flexi hanger letting the exhaust pipe hit something, but after ive been underneath and checked everything over veryt thoroughly, ive come up empty. Ive checked every nut bolt, ball joint, spring, bush i could get my hands/socket onto underneath and cant see anything amiss. all tight. while driving, it sounds approximately to come from below the gearstick area. the front ball joints are all solid and no knocking. access to down below through the engine is v difficult and crampt (im used to working on a 1984 transporter, so loads of room in the engine bay to work in!), and so i cane feel anything loose in there either.
the eld works as normal. the propshaft feels good, has a *tiny ammount of play but i suppose thats normal. as i say, it happens over bumps and vibrations.
thought id ask if there was anything familiar about this- weve only had it since december, so pretty new to the car.
thanks all!!
john