I have a Fiberfab Speedster that was built in 1997. The car has new gas filled shocks. The ride is good on smooth surfaces but an abrupt surface change like small pot hole, or man hole cover causes a significant banging sound from the body structure. Any ideas on what the cause may be, and hopefully a corrective action.
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Check your sway-bar mount. The bar might have slipped out where it connects to the trailing arm.
..........in the rear wheel well there are vertical body mount bolts the run through the plate steel into the VW factory forged steel, this can come loose and cause that clunk
Loose shock? Is it coming from the back or front of the car?
I had a nose mount loosen up and bang on bumps also.
I take it this noise is new since adding the new shocks?
Ron may have hit on a clue. If car is lowered much (say about 3") - it could be the stock size shocks are bottoming out and transferring the impact.
Sounds silly but rear deck lid bouncing....also lowered shocks might cause you to bottom out. That feeling, and I have had that before, will surely make you sit up pay attention. Very jarring....and I have a CMC.
Sorry guys to write this:
But my first thought when I saw the headline was, that you might have been together with a girl in your car somewere in the woods... O:-)
No need to apologize Jan. I suspect that you're not the only one who thought that.
