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Old 04-04-2004, 07:03 PM
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Default Those of you with squeaky clattery noises coming from the rear of the car..

My car suffered from squeaks and rattles coming from the rear of my car. I jacked it up numerous times coating everything with lithium grease to no avail. I finally talked with Jason at MTI and he sold me some steel BMR lower control arms. These replacement arms have grease fittings on them. Also I put grease on the outside part before I slipped them in.
Problem solved. I wish I have done this 3 years ago.

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The squeeky wheel (LCA) gets the grease. LOL
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I had more of a rattle sound in the back of mine that sounded a bit like the spare tire was loose. Drove me nutes . It ended up being these rubber stoppers under the hatch. I bought 2 of them @ 70 cents a piece. I screwed them in and the rattle went away.

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i put some bilingsley adj lower control arms with steel mounts and they make a bunch of noise i will be willing to bet that you have the same problem if you dont like the noise definately dont put the exterme duty andi roll bar or the extreme duty torque arm this combination will make your car a complete rattle trap as is mine but i can deal with it its a race car what u expect cant have the luxuries of a benz unfortunately. you might have one if u wanted to drive slow i dont have one cause i like driving fast
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These LCA's have poly bushings with grease fittings and silence the noise.
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Originally Posted by Humanoid
My car suffered from squeaks and rattles coming from the rear of my car. I jacked it up numerous times coating everything with lithium grease to no avail. I finally talked with Jason at MTI and he sold me some steel BMR lower control arms. These replacement arms have grease fittings on them. Also I put grease on the outside part before I slipped them in.
Problem solved. I wish I have done this 3 years ago.

Good Luck.
Hugh
Thanks for the heads up. That is interesting........I get a squeak/rattle noise from the rear of my car that I just started noticing a few weeks ago when i took out my back seat and a bunch of the insulation that was under the carpet. It lets more of my exhaust be heard by ME with the dumps under the car and the insuation gone, I didn't count on the squeaky crap though




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