lately since the weather has been warming up ive been noticing a creaking/popping sound coming from the front drivers side of the car. I have a lift at work so ive thrown the car on the lift to check the cv joint and what not and cannot find anything that would be causing this sound. ive searchedand found that people have had these symptoms due to a blown strut mount. the car is lowered on tein s tech springs and stock struts. i live in the country and i drive on the gravel lots. so my question has anyone here had this happen and does anyone know how to check for a blown strut mount ill throw my car up on the lift and check today again

 

You can keep the car on the ground and push down on the front end to sort of bounce the car and you should be able to replicate the noise that you are talking about if it is indeed a blown strut mount. It sort of makes a shimmy kinda noise.

 

it creaks a small bit when i do that, but when im driving it does it bad over bumps and when i start and stop the car when the suspension is under and off load. its kind of a metal on metal sound

 

ok i wasnt putting enough force on it so i actually stood on the rad support and bounced a bit and it makes the exact same sound when i do that. so blown strut mount?

 

That sounds like it would be yes. When you get the strut assembly apart you should be able to tell indefinitely also.

 

im just going to be installing a set of megan coilovers here in a few weeks so that should take care of this problem shouldnt it?

 

Yea, a coilover assembly would come with the strut mounts on them.

 

Check for cracks in the tops of the mounts, mine did the same thing. Replaced them with the oem ones and was fine.

 

yah there is cracks in both, but the dirvers side seems to be the only one making any noise

 

i just changed mine yesterday and the noise went away. it would only make the noise at a slow roll.

 

Okay im a lil confused.... Mine is doing the same thing do i need to change the strut or something on the strut.
or can i check the strut somehow?

 

the cap on top where the bearing is.

 

SO does the strut have to be off to check the bearing? I have never dealt with suspension before sorry im dumb at this... i did search and can not find...

 

yah i also searched and i could only figure out that it was a strut mount not how to actually diagnose the problem but im pretty confident that this is the problem so hopefully after i install the coilovers it will go away

 

If you have a bad strut you will see fluid seeping out where the shaft comes out of the strut assembly. If a mount is bad it will make a rattling noise as I stated above. To be able to check the bearings you will have to take the strut assembly off because it is all bolted together.