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Old 06-18-2008, 10:19 AM
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Default Squeeking in rear driver side wheel well

Hey guys,

Noticed this on my LOOONG drive to and from MI the other week. Everytime the car hit a bump or when I was driving slow and was going over an uneven road the rear driver side wheel well was making some squeeking sounds. Would never do it when the car was on a flat surface though. Also, the brake pads seem to be squeeking a lot more than usual on just that side as well.

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Old 06-18-2008, 10:22 AM
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Mine is doing the same thing.I sprayed some lube on everything that moves and it doesn't make any difference. I also checked everything to make sure nothing was rubbing on anything else. So that only leaves the shock itself.I'll be replacing them next payday.
Old 07-02-2008, 11:33 AM
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Mine did the same thing. I checked to make sure the shock was tight at the top, I sprayed some lube there, at the bottom of the coil spring and it seemed to work.
Old 07-02-2008, 01:00 PM
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Mine was doing that for a long time. I used all sorts of lubricants on that rubber and still had problems with squeaking. What seemed to finally solve it for me was replacing my sway bar endlinks with some polyurethane ones and changing my lower control arms. No more squeaks.
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Silly question but do you still have the spare in there? I know mine made noise no matter how tight I had the little hook.
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Tighten up the jack where it's stored. And stuff a bath towel in the spare tire compartment and tighted that mount too. The bath towel deadens the noise and is a valuable thing to have on hand in a numer of situations.
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i have no spare with new shocks not even 200 miles if that and i have the same problem it went away for a while after that but came back X2 on the question.




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