Suspension clunk

**04muscle** · 08-17-2010

My 04 does exactly the same thing, pisses me off, I think it must be the strut.

**zildjian102** · 08-17-2010

Well the noise is coming from the back.. i checked the sway bar and it seems to be fine.. it's probably the strut.. i mean the roads around here are soooooooo bad

**SJAndrew** · 08-18-2010

Find a patch of road where the clunk happens. Note the precise spot and speed where you get the worst clunking.

Have a friend drive your car over the same spot at the same speed with you outside watching.

This is what I did to confirm my rear strut was trashed - the tire was bouncing up and down 4". I had spent weeks trying to find the source - looking at loose bodypanels, loose license plate mount, loose exhaustlinks et cetera.

I originally thought it was the strut. But, I pushed the car up and down at each corner and counted cycles until it rebounded. The damping at each corner seemed identical. Nevertheless, the strut was trashed. This old school method showed me nothing.