Please someone help me no one can fix my car problem!

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

For the past month I've had a metallic snapping sound coming from the front left side of my car, it makes the noise when I'm stopped and then begin to accelerate, it also does it when I hit certain bumps, and i can really duplicate the noise if i rock the car left and right (this was really duplicates the noise. I replaced the struts cause I was told that seems to look like the only thing that's wrong with my car and that solved nothing. Please someone tell me if you have any idea what is causing this

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

For the past month I've had a metallic snapping sound coming from the front left side of my car, it makes the noise when I'm stopped and then begin to accelerate, it also does it when I hit certain bumps, and i can really duplicate the noise if i rock the car left and right (this was really duplicates the noise. I replaced the struts cause I was told that seems to look like the only thing that's wrong with my car and that solved nothing. Please someone tell me if you have any idea what is causing this

**Fivefingerdeathpunch** · 08-15-2013

Stop making more than 1 thread.

It wont get you yours answers any quicker.

**Slick2500** · 08-15-2013

You know I have this same issue except on the right side(passenger) of the car, and I was thinking maybe one of my strut mounts was broken.

**Timing** · 08-15-2013

hows your engine and trans mount?

**REDCRAPGP** · 08-15-2013

Originally Posted by Ginseng

hows your engine and trans mount?

This bet they need replacing

**Slick2500** · 08-15-2013

Well mine looked fine when I put the engine and trans in in May.

**REDCRAPGP** · 08-15-2013

Worth replacing especially for how cheap they are. You never know it could fix the issue your having.. The key part is that it occurs from a stop which usually indicates a bad mount somewhere.

**91parkave** · 08-15-2013

Hopefully you did strut mounts as well the clunking is probably your sway Bar and relates bushings and end links

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

Yes i did the strut mounts as well

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

And it's not a clunk it kinda sounds like when you run over a pop can, that kind of snapping crunching noise is what happens

**GTP in RTP** · 08-15-2013

Door moldings loose ? They are plastic though,

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

it also resembles the noise of snapping twigs and i don't believe that's it, its more towards the front of the car

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

I haven't looked at those mounts yet but I'm going to the mechanic again tomorrow so i will tell him to look at those as well

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

Originally Posted by Ginseng

hows your engine and trans mount?

I haven't looked at those yet but that could be a possibility i will get the mechanic to check that tomorrow

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

Originally Posted by slick2500

You know I have this same issue except on the right side(passenger) of the car, and I was thinking maybe one of my strut mounts was broken.

I had my strut mounts replaced and it didnt fix it

**REDCRAPGP** · 08-15-2013

You can check these things yourself..without spending money on a mechanic. Jack the car up and remove the wheel and check for anything visibly broken like the sway bar, endlinks, mounts etc. ill take you 15 mins to do and can save you quite a bit.

**Timing** · 08-15-2013

Originally Posted by jbyrne

I haven't looked at those yet but that could be a possibility i will get the mechanic to check that tomorrow

Just hold down your brake while in drive and press throttleand try in reverse aswell you should hear knock

**jbyrne** · 08-15-2013

Originally Posted by REDCOMPG

You can check these things yourself..without spending money on a mechanic. Jack the car up and remove the wheel and check for anything visibly broken like the sway bar, endlinks, mounts etc. ill take you 15 mins to do and can save you quite a bit.

i have checked for anything broken and there doesnt appear to be anything.

I will also give that a try and see what happens