This is a little hard to explain, I hope I can be reasonably clear.

I've got a kind of creaking, dragging, popping something-is-moving-where-it- doesn't-want-to sound in my rear end. Well sometimes anyway, it seems to be intermittent.

When I first got the car it would make these odd noises after having been sitting in the shed for 7 years. After I drove it for a couple of days the noises went away.


The sound seems to turn up at different times, but always as the torque load on the rear wheels changes.

For instance one night it was making ghastly creaking noises as I reversed into parking spots, and then again when I moved off in the other direction. That night it was making so much noise that I initially thought I had a muffler dragging. Then of course the noise went away before I could investigate further.

It's not related to speed or direction, but rather seems to creak and pop in relation to driver input working against the vehicle's inertia. I've experienced the same noise on the road at high speed. One one road trip it was making some strange creaking sounds every time I put my foot down hard on the throttle, and then quitened down once the speed became constant again.

The only time I get consistent noises from the rear is if I accelerate hard around a particular corner at the Uni. If I turn hard (left or right), off camber and uphill, I always get a series of popping noises from the back of the car. It sounds kind of like a popcorn machine.

Hopefully this is just a matter of replacing a few bushings if you can use that term to describe replacing the TABs on a 240. Where should I start looking?





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