[s-cars] front end 'pop / clunk / clank / boom'

[Keith Maddock]

Deja Vu again?  Had same popping problem on my 93 S4 after some front end work.

It had my mechanic stumped until he compressed the front wheels while
the vehicle was on the lift.

Turns out it was the front anti-roll-bar interfering with something,
binding intially, and then releasing, hence the pop.  I wish I
remember exactly what it was - but putting some sort of telltale
coating on the anti-roll-bar should help pin-point the issue.

Cheers,
Keith


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:24:39 -0500, Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)
<wqq2pxk at ups.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello my name is Paul and it's been 15 hours 7 minutes since my Quattro
> broke...
> 
> I've got a very loud front end pop going on now almost always, as described
> above.  Happens when I'm say doing a 3 point turn in reverse and the wheels
> go to full lock when at or near stop.  If it doesn't happen then, it will
> once the wheels are then turned full lock the other way and I begin to go
> forward again.
> 
> It's so audible the Biff and Muffy were laughing at me as I backed my POS
> Audi out of the spot in front of the hoytytoyty MB dealer, actually echoed
> off the building.  Rossato says his seems to be doing the same, and as he
> rightly sums up "it is very disconcerting".  Um, YEAH it is!
> 
> Here's the rub:  threw the hoar on a lift yest., tech checked everything,
> all's good in da hood.  WTF?  Bullshit, something's wrong, but what?
>