Technical New noise of the day

[martinrossbrown]

Hi all, discovering the 'pleasures' of cinq ownership, had the following done in the last 3 months:

New clutch cable + release bearing
Release of seized back brake
New rear trailing arm to replace the knocking from bushes

And after all that, the bloody thing still makes a noise! Basically it's from the rear again, but it's more of a grinding/springing noise than the bumpbumpbump of worn bushes, and less loud than worn bushes. Tends to be more pronounced when turning right.

Any ideas? Hopefully it's nice & cheap as I got ramped by local garage in replacing trailing arm, after being insistent that it was my shocks at fault, they charged £240 P+L for trailing arm & off road for the week.

Thanks for your help, the forum rocks!

Martin

P.S. when without my baby I rented the Merc A Class from Easycar, highly recommended if you are doing low mileage - they didnt mind me bring the car back minus a hubcap! BTW I honestly think my basic Cinq has more spot-on handling than the German, god I missed my car..

I can see the top of my car in the car park...

 

[HP]

Sounds like the rear drivers side wheel bearing, parts cost £30 or so, take half an hour to fit. Mine's done 58K miles, i've replaced both rear bearings and the driver's side one is on the way out again [:0] It looks like 30K miles a piece and they're shot!

Pete.
Cinq sporting 1242cc
http://mysite.freeserve.com/close_to_cracking_up/

 

[martinrossbrown]

hmm, sounds like an absolute bargain compared to former problems! Gonna have to ask around for labour at garage, despite living in 2nd city Fiat dealers are 15-20m away After upping the work rate considerably due to my job, I've hit 53K so I think I should count my blessings

I can see the top of my car in the car park...

 

[silvasporting]

hi when my rev's are at max in each gear there's a noise which makes the bit of dashboard the passengers side shake, also when doin 70mph recently the noise is worse having intervals of about 2 seconds, does any1 know what this is???? cud it be sumthing to do with my suspension etc??

 

[Jonna83]

erm cud u describe the noise? I kno mine starts making a cool whistling noise when pushed hard in 3rd and 4th

FIAT CinqueCento = Recycled Ferrari