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Cracking noise S40-V40 2000

posted by  someone claiming to be Miker on  Sat Mar 6 12:05 CST 2004 [RELATED]

Bill

Somewhat the same noise when cold. Starting from a dead stop with a little turn in the wheel seems to create the crack or clunk. Happens only one time when the car has sat overnight.

My guess ?

The spring in the seat of the Macpherson strut. There is a piece of "foam" sitting under the spring. I tried to fix it by squirting oil in the seat on the foam. The noise disappears until the oil gets dirty and the spring slips.

That strut collects LOTS of junk. Clean it out everyonce in a while with a high pressure stream of water and it tends to squelch the problem.


Miker

2000 S40






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