front suspension creaking noise Options

[lagos]

I just replaced my struts and springs on the car.
Everything went well, but now a few weeks after driving the car, the front left is making a creaking/popping noise when turning the wheel.

Any idea why it would be doing that?
Did I align the top strut mount in the wrong position, or could it be cause by the top nut coming loose ?

[trdproven]

i guess i read on late.

I guarantee, its dealing with your top mount and the alignment between your springs to it. thats exactly the symptoms of an incorrect assembling or a top mount that was installed wrong and got damaged or an already bad mount. I went through that through two lowering springs brands, before i went coilovers. its a easy fix, disassemble the suspected side. take of the top mount, look at it from the underside, make sure you match the groove on the strut stem to that when you align it between the grooves and the position of where the spring needs to sit. if you do that, its fixed. also make sure you point the top mount in the correct direction from the top side. i know some mounts dont have these markings.

if the mount groove is already damaged, you have to replace it. if you keep on turning with it, it would eventually wear out and round itself out, which i guess won't make it have a sound anymore, but thats not the correct way to handle that situation. just inspect the bottom of the groove, if its semi-damaged, thats your pop sound wearing out the groove, and then the creaking is the misalignment making your springs twist or parts of the assembly components are twisting, and im sure this happens only on turns and not anything else. im guessing when you turn the steering wheel a certain way, you already expect it and perhaps you do not hear it at all if any when you only turn slightly. its hard in this case to sound technical or correct but really, just install the spring correctly to the top mount and it will be fixed. sit the spring correctly top and bottom.

This post has been edited by trdproven: Jun 10, 2012 - 9:01 AM