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#1: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: nemesislee, Location: stoke PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 3:01 am
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hi people,

yet another issue with my lovely 206,

my car makes a weird clunk noise when going over slightly un even road surfaces. small pot holes for example. it does not sound right.

when i twist the wheel from left to right i get a slight bit of movement and a clunk.

any ideas? need to get this sorted

thanks in advance

Lee

#2: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: Pp4811 PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 9:06 am
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Hi
I can't help with your issue but I have the same thing. It's annoying. I'm guessing it's the drop links, there's no movement when the wheels are on the ground but that could be due to the weight of the car on them.
It would be worth checking those first.

#3: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: nemesislee, Location: stoke PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 9:45 am
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going to get it up on a jack tonight have a better look

#4: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: Sim, Location: West Country PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 9:47 am
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My bet on drop links too.

If you get under the car and ask someone to go on full lock (will work only one direction like you said, from left to right), you'll see the faulty droplink popping about its balljoint and making that clunk. Putting palm on the droplink would feel it pop too (health & safety first)

#5: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: nemesislee, Location: stoke PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 10:01 am
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aha i will try to check that, been doing my head in last week or so ive gone from wishbone to wishbone bushings to suspension arm and now to drop links Smile i'll have a look and ask the garage too as i roughly know whats causing it

#6: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: Sim, Location: West Country PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 11:13 am
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I discovered that myself when both front wheels were jacked up in the air (the weight off as Pp4811 said)

Word of warning, do not go to full lock and back when you have only one side jacked up by the sill - the car will tilt and grind the jack/stand

#7: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: Pp4811 PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 11:31 am
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Drop links should be easy enough to do yourself bud. I'm a complete and utter mechanical idiot and managed drop links on my lunch break before.

#8: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: nemesislee, Location: stoke PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 12:07 pm
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Ha ha that's like me then, yeah been looking at how to do it and want to save my self the cost of labour so will do them myself, euro car parts have them for £15 Smile

#9: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: Pp4811 PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 1:47 pm
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Is that £15 for the pair? Best off changing them as a pair.

#10: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: Spotfist PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 2:39 pm
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Ye I have to do mine as well for it's upcoming MOT, was it 15 each or 1 for the pair?

#11: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: Spotfist PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2015 3:12 am
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just had a look and it's less than a tenner for a pair on fleabay.

#12: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: LeeThr, Location: North West Wales PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2015 8:19 am
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Spotfist wrote:
just had a look and it's less than a tenner for a pair on fleabay.

Don't buy cheap ebay crap or you'll be changing them again in under 6 months.

#13: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: nemesislee, Location: stoke PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2015 11:51 am
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So drop links came today but they don't have the common hex key in the centre of the bolt is that a good or bad thing?

#14: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: Sim, Location: West Country PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2015 1:05 pm
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Don't know how you would keep the joint from turning while doing the nut, if bolts are standard blank. The ones (one up from cheapest) on eurocarparts had torx in them bolt ends, conveniently

#15: Re: passenger side wheel clunks when i manually twist it Author: nemesislee, Location: stoke PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2015 1:21 pm
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Damn I was thinking that too can't see how I'd tighten them up if they haven't got one :S



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