Rattle/clatter in Front passenger side

**pontiff** · 06-03-2013, 03:45 PM

I have a distinct rattle/clatter that I can only surmise is coming from the front left hand side of my car. Now you have be attune to the car to hear it, as I took a fellow board member for a drive yesterday and he couldn't hear it, so I suspect its one of those noises that once you hear it once, you hear it all the time (or is it the marbles in my head?)

Over the past couple of days I have been paying particular attention to it, thinking that its related to my KW's that I recently installed, however the more I think and listen to it the more I think perhaps it 'may' be something else. The reason is that as I was going over the speed humps in the office car park today as you go over the bump you hear it rattle 3-4 times almost like a pendulum effect where you set it off once and it clatters 2-3 times, same thing when you drop over the other side of the hump you hear it a few times.

Now given the speed that I am going I don't think the suspension travels up and down more than the once as the ride is quite firm and i am not going that fast.

Usual caveats apply in that it does not do it 'all' the time but 'most of the time'.

I would call it almost like a dull plastic knocking sound, i.e it does not have that high pitch / sharpness that you would get from a metallic knock.

Just to discount the suspension next time I have the strut apart I will put the OEM one back in. Given the passenger side comes out really easy its not that much effort to try this.

However, Has anyone has anything similar (that they have managed to resolve) ?

**Lucas_R** · 06-03-2013, 04:27 PM

Its not the DSG clutches?

**gavs** · 06-03-2013, 05:21 PM

It's not the clutches, I went with pontiff and I honestly couldn't hear it. What I could hear was the springs clattering but nothing else.

I've listened to BLN's video and that sounds like a swaybar squeak. If it is the top mount though, just wipe some rubber grease around the top of the mount and it should help.

**pontiff** · 06-03-2013, 08:41 PM

Manual car

**gavs** · 06-03-2013, 09:37 PM

That too

**Lucas_R** · 06-03-2013, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by pontiff

Manual car

My bad - i couldnt see which gearbox you had from Tapatalk so i took a guess at DSG as thats what 90% of people get. Us manual drivers are rare these days.

In that case, check to make sure the springs are seated correctly, check rebound if they are coilovers as poor adjustment can lead to the springs moving around.

**pontiff** · 15-03-2013, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Lucas_R

My bad - i couldnt see which gearbox you had from Tapatalk so i took a guess at DSG as thats what 90% of people get. Us manual drivers are rare these days.

That we are.... I don't know. .. these lazy DSG drivers

Anyway... with gavs help, it turned out that it is the transmission mount rubber knocking (or 'POC'ing as gavs so rightly called it). I took to it with some strategically placed pieces of folded cardboard and a rag and the noise has for the most part.... gone.

so there you go, any funky noises, check it out, but its certainly an odd one..

**gavs** · 15-03-2013, 08:10 PM

I recall someone on here having the same issue, someone from Europe.... PoloDave, was it you?

**PoloDave** · 16-03-2013, 04:24 AM

Nah my steering wheel is on the left side, and the noise was coming from front right, rattling fuel lines were the issue in my case. Will remember this one though! why knows when it comes in handy