ok. after having my car several months now, i have been in search of a knocking coming from the offside rear.

well it turns out after the 6 times i have stripped my suspension, fitted pads, now i have welded up my top mounts to find the knocking is still there!!!

!!!BUT!!!

its coming from inside the rear pillar!!! so now i have to cut the inside of my car to get to it. any one ever heard of this before. i know there is a strengthening bar in there and i feel it may have broke on a weld or something. its either this or filler foam in the rear quater!


whats your ideas?

 

if you have standard shoks on var it's very common for these to sieze . this will give you a knocking noise, just to look at the shocks they will look fine , but under load ( with vehicles wieght on them) they will be faulty. mine did the same on my06 wrx , i fitted coil overs

 

i have ohline coilovers. and everything seems fine with them. i have even welded the pillow ball purely because the washer inside had worn that bad and had play.

it definately feels like its coming from in the quarter

 

don't know mate without looking at the car myself

 

iv got the exact same problem its so annoying,

 

i just hope yours aint the same as mine. many ppl have an issue with it being the top mount its self or a weak spring. but mine has been different to everyone elses. this knock is not normal. and my clutch issue is not the normal fault.

(10p box of matches please sir!)

 

what car?
I had a knocking sound from the back of mine 06 WRX
turned to be boot lid
To test i put a load of paper towels each side of the rubber stopper to make lid tight knocking stoped
worth a try

 

your right it is worth a try. before i getthe grinder out i will give it a go,