Knocking noise coming from the front....suspension? engine mount?

[Jmac]

Sounds like the sway bar links mate. Try a quick round the block with them off and it wont do any harm, that will nail it for sure.
Cheers
JMac

[Kai]

i have this knock too.

Ive only got it in the last few thousand k's.

[Stuwey]

can you hear whereabouts in the engine bay its coming from?

I could've sworn mine was coming from the top of the front strut. Very suspension-kinda-knock-thunk sound. I was going nuts trying to figure it out. Took my dealer 2 days to find it, and another day to fix it once the parts were in stock. I was guessing bottom arm, or subframe mount or something.

Mine didn't happen with more than just me on board, either. Only with one person driving and no passengers.

[Spec83]

Sounds exactly like my problem

[Ben_GTI]

Rather than have an argument with a dealer over swaybar mounts how hard is it to change yourself?

[nomodlowkmgti]

I had a subaru forester years ago and i installed a k mac rear sway bar it saved me some cash and felt good to do my self and at least if it fell off it was my fault .Im a bit lazy with my 1:1 scale cars these days so im leaving my 2006 gti 6000km polo std and will do all my mods on my radio control cars .At least they don,t get the cops on my back i can do burn outs speed runs race ect no cops.It does cost a bit but is cheaper than real cars mods ,well a little cheaper.
I have had no real problems with my polo had all dealer service and it runs same as when i first got it.My gear box and suspension seem good so im not going to start modding now.

[Jmac]

Mate can we stay on topic here, just quietly we are talkng about a suspension knock and not a mod
Cheers
Jmac

[nomodlowkmgti]

Maybe you can help him out .

[RhysQ]

haven't been on the forum for the last few days so sorry for not replying to questions in this thread. the knocking has gone away and has not come back since this happened. maybe a rock or something got flicked up inside somewhere??

if the noise comes back i'll to the checks you guys have mentioned. cheers for the help!

[Carrot]

I have this knocking noise aswell, only at slow speeds, particularily when reversing. Had my car in at Solitaire 3x to check but always get same result, couldn't hear noise. Last time took one of the techs for a drive and it happened once when he was talking, hence he didn't hear it. So still no fix. I have previously ad all the bolts checked and tightened, but that lasted 3 days and the knock was back.

Has anyone has remedied this problem?