drop links

[mikep1973]

Just another problem that has occured on my 2.0hdi, recently had a coil spring and wheel bearing changed on passenger side, now im getting a small rattling noise on bumps, just changed the drop link and its still there?

This will be the strut top mount. I had exactly the same thing on mine. Had the bloody thing in bits 3 times before we noticed the wear on the top mount. There's a picture on a thread somewhere on here that I posted of the wear pattern and what to look for on the top mount, but I can't find the thread!

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This is the thing, only had the car a year and ive changed both bottom arms, drop links, had to change a coil spring on side that is noisy so i put new mount bearing in, its only since ive had work done that its making this noise! when you say lug, do you mean the lug on the bottom of the strut?

On mine it was the actual mount itself, the bearing was ok.

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This is the thing, only had the car a year and ive changed both bottom arms, drop links, had to change a coil spring on side that is noisy so i put new mount bearing in, its only since ive had work done that its making this noise! when you say lug, do you mean the lug on the bottom of the strut?

to be honest i am not too sure, its just that someone mentioned a lug on strut and that this was the problem on theres, i just dont seem to have time or even be bothered to strip it down and look and the noise is everyday life now lol

I did mine myself and know this lug of which you speak. In all seriousness, you'd have to be seriously ham-fisted and violent to get the strut in with the lug in the wrong place. I checked this when I had the top-mount rattle, and couldn't actually see how it would be possible to get the strut in with the lug not in it's slot.

[800HDI]

Is this the one

http://www.berlingoforum.co.uk/showthrea...515&page=2

[lorraine]

Just another problem that has occured on my 2.0hdi, recently had a coil spring and wheel bearing changed on passenger side, now im getting a small rattling noise on bumps, just changed the drop link and its still there?

This will be the strut top mount. I had exactly the same thing on mine. Had the bloody thing in bits 3 times before we noticed the wear on the top mount. There's a picture on a thread somewhere on here that I posted of the wear pattern and what to look for on the top mount, but I can't find the thread!

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This is the thing, only had the car a year and ive changed both bottom arms, drop links, had to change a coil spring on side that is noisy so i put new mount bearing in, its only since ive had work done that its making this noise! when you say lug, do you mean the lug on the bottom of the strut?

On mine it was the actual mount itself, the bearing was ok.

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This is the thing, only had the car a year and ive changed both bottom arms, drop links, had to change a coil spring on side that is noisy so i put new mount bearing in, its only since ive had work done that its making this noise! when you say lug, do you mean the lug on the bottom of the strut?

to be honest i am not too sure, its just that someone mentioned a lug on strut and that this was the problem on theres, i just dont seem to have time or even be bothered to strip it down and look and the noise is everyday life now lol

I did mine myself and know this lug of which you speak. In all seriousness, you'd have to be seriously ham-fisted and violent to get the strut in with the lug in the wrong place. I checked this when I had the top-mount rattle, and couldn't actually see how it would be possible to get the strut in with the lug not in it's slot.

someone must be lieing then.smartguy