For over a year, I have been dealing with really annoying rattling from the rear of my car. I had installed Boge Turbogas shocks about the same time it started. Figuring I had not tightened them enough onto the car I pulled the wheels and torqued them down massively past spec. (100 ft/lb)

So anyway tonight it was warm and I am driven to the point of insanity by the rattling..

(crossposted from my original topic past this point)



I jacked the car up off the ground from the differential and laid under each tire, pushing them up and down, and it was very easy to replicate the ever so slight clunk.

I could tell it was either:

The front bushing, the shock itself, or the trailing arm bushing.

I had the shocks themselves torqued onto the car at 100 ft/lb, and watched them very carefully as I moved the car up and down and they did NOT MOVE :)

(it's probably not recommended in the name of safety to rely on your car jack to hold the entire rear tires up a foot in the air while you lay under the them bouncing the car on its suspension.. But I lived)

Also, I used a vernier calipers to measure the metal sleeves on my turbogas shocks versus the stock Boge shocks. Identical.

So I was at a loss.. My best guess from the noise was that it was the rear trailing arm bushing, but again, they were not moving at all when I was moving the car on the springs.

So just to humor myself, i reinstalled the original Boge shocks.

The results were bittersweet. The rattling is completely GONE!

But, now I'm back to driving around on Boge shocks that have 100k miles on them.

They pass the bumper bounce test though :)

SO, there is something internally wrong with my TurboGas shocks. They were made in Turkey.

Just an FYI for you all, who are considering ordering them.
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Luke Healey