When I slow down or accelerate slightly, the front of the car makes a creeking sound. I cant feel any movement just loud creeking like a door opening.

 

Any ideas any one?

 

Stuart

Do you have polyurethane bushes?

 

I heard from an acquaintance that they can

sometimes do that.

On the set up i have it creeks like mad soon as winter/colder months start,so jack it up,spray silicone/grease etc all over joints etc,noise will then eventually go ;)

let me no what it is as id love to no if you ever find out

Another possibilty is the T tops. My drivers side has started to creek since the weather has got colder.

 

Robin

My Z creeks when I reverse out on the road, could be the targas could be the whole car being excited at going out onto the road!!

No it is 100% from the front of the car.

 

I have heard T-Tops creak before, I have heard the ice on the T-Tops smash when I went over a speed bump with the car flexing :eek:

 

I am thinking its the brakes now, because when I release the brakes slightly to move forward in traffic when I am on a hill, the brakes make a creeking noise when I start to roll and then it stops when I completely let go of the brake.

 

The noise occurs about a tenth of a second before I come to a stand still when I break and exactly the same noise occurs when I pull off.

 

I shall try to explain the noise. When you have a greeky door, when you open and close it slow the creek turns into lots of very small pops of greeking noise and not 1 long constent creek. When I brake I get 2 or 3 little pops of a greeking noise and when I pull off again, I get 1 or 2 there.

 

Its only started doing it in the past 2 days or so.

 

It could be the polly bushes that was my first though, but I would have thought they dont move that much. But saying that then times when the noise occurs, braking and pulling off is a time where there is stress on the things.

 

Hmmmm, interesting. :confused:

 

Stuart

This will probably sound really stupid, but you have checked your wheelnuts are tight havent you.

 

I had a creek, well more of a clunck every time i either accelerated or braked, I looked at everything, but since swapping the wheels over (sock for stock) it went away, figured one of the old ones might have been a wee bit loose....

 

.....probably why ive got a knackered wheel bearing now!!!

 

The tightness of the front callipers could be worth a check, they may rattle a bit if theyre not proper tight.

 

Good luck stu.

My guess is the bushes on the anti-roll (sway) bar. If they are dry then you get exactly that type of creek as the bar rotates within them.

The old favourite bonnet catch?

Originally posted by AndyP

My guess is the bushes on the anti-roll (sway) bar. If they are dry then you get exactly that type of creek as the bar rotates within them.

 

 

Could be that. They are only about 6 months old though

 

 

 

Originally posted by russtic

The old favourite bonnet catch?

 

 

No its not that.

 

Stuart

Hi Stuart,

 

Another thing to look at are the shims behind the brake pads. Re-grease them with some copper grease and see if that helps.

 

My car made a creaking noise as it approached stand-still or as I was just releasing the brakes from a stand-still. Changed the pads as part of routine maintenance (and cleaned/re-greased the shims) and the creaking stopped!

 

Not sure if this helps but it's worth a shot!

 

Regards,

The pads are not that old and I aways put copper grease on them shim before I put them back on.

 

I will have a look at that though.

 

Thanks

Its the brake pads and the disks - bet yours is an auto isnt it? Mine does it every now and then - no big deal. Sometimes its worse and sometimes it doesnt do it at all.

 

Dunno how to fix it though!!!

No its a Manual. ;)

 

But it is the same sound when you let an auto creep a little.

Happened to mine a couple of days after fitting, removed and greased bush - no problem since.

 

 

Originally posted by SRRAE

Could be that. They are only about 6 months old though

 

 

 

 

 

 

No its not that.

 

Stuart

Probably that then.

 

Strange thing is I have changed the pads a few times, but the last time I really cleaned the shims so they looked like new.

 

The mud and dirt on they probably stopped the noise :S

 

Stuart