Squeaking noise from hatchback
05-19-2009, 11:37 PM
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Squeaking noise from hatchback I was going up my friends driveway earlier on a sideways angle, and hear a pneumatic squeak towards my rear. It was pretty blatant so I just want to make sure its NOT my T-Bar roof and hopefully the pneumatic shocks for the hatchback. Do these pneumatic shocks flex under sideways body flex?
05-20-2009, 06:09 PM
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I get a squeak back there all the time when driving (I imagine this is partially because the roads here are crap). I'll check the spare, but it sounds like a similar pneumatic sound. I don't have t-tops btw.
05-23-2009, 12:25 AM
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I was going up my friends driveway earlier on a sideways angle, and hear a pneumatic squeak towards my rear. It was pretty blatant so I just want to make sure its NOT my T-Bar roof and hopefully the pneumatic shocks for the hatchback. Do these pneumatic shocks flex under sideways body flex?
If the driveway was steep enough to cause body flex as you described, then the shocks could be the problem.
05-28-2009, 08:19 PM
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Two days ago, as I was driving on the highway, I started hearing a squeaking sound from the back of the car.
I completely pulled the spare tire & jack out of the car to see if the squeak would come back during my commute the next day. Yup, still squeaking even without the spare back there.
So I thought maybe it's the antenna. Turned the radio off (which retracts the antenna back down) and the squeaking still persisted--so it's not coming from the antenna either.
I can be cruising on the highway and it does *not* squeak when my foot is *off* the gas. However, as soon as I apply moderate throttle (and the road is bumpy) the squeaking surfaces.
Ideas? solutions? Pick up some earplugs?
I completely pulled the spare tire & jack out of the car to see if the squeak would come back during my commute the next day. Yup, still squeaking even without the spare back there.
So I thought maybe it's the antenna. Turned the radio off (which retracts the antenna back down) and the squeaking still persisted--so it's not coming from the antenna either.
I can be cruising on the highway and it does *not* squeak when my foot is *off* the gas. However, as soon as I apply moderate throttle (and the road is bumpy) the squeaking surfaces.
Ideas? solutions? Pick up some earplugs?
Last edited by Jersey Mike; 05-29-2009 at 01:08 AM. Reason: antenna
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