For two months I have listened to my 850 GLT front-end creak and pop, and get worse and louder. I had developed an image of something flexing under load. This has always occured taking off from a stop and recently worsened to occur at low speed acceleration. The sound comes from below and either side of the center console. Sounds like a series of pops, almost continuous. I imagined replacing struts, CV joints, transaxle bearings and all manner of horrors I have been conditioned to accept as gospel from reading the tales of woe and doom here on the brickboard. So I took it to my local cheapo tire place and described the problem and my suspicions to the old boys who dragged on their cigarettes deeply and squinted at me. Five minutes on the lift was all it took. We used a hypodermic needle and squirted grease into the small sway bar boots, then soaked the sway bar bushings where these attached the sub-frame with WD-40. Paid $5, drove away and now no more creaking, popping or 850 arthritis. Seems to have more horse power too. Perhaps we should add this to the list of performance enhancements along with the IPD big bore exhaust, and a chip upgrade?

So what tires should I put on it? currently runnning 195/60R15 Michelin X-1's.

Thanks