View Full Version : 1999 STS Front End Creaking


jcresciSTS
09-27-09, 08:56 PM
I posted this in the Seville Section with no replies...its been this way since I bought the car back in May. Well when I test drove it it was fine and when I was driving it home the next day it was fine, when I got home is when the noise appeared (of course that would happen). Anyways...

Well I'm still not sure what it is since I haven't had it checked out but when I got to work I pushed on my car from the side and no noise. I went to the front bumper and stepped on it and heard the noise. It also happens when driving.

Like I said in my other post a long time ago, its a creaking noise but I guess a better way to describe it is that it sounds like something is "popping". My guess is my strut?

I just did a little video from my phone and got a sound recording. This noise is actually coming from the passenger side...this whole time I thought it was my driver's side.

Now in keep in mind a mechanic from a shop I went to said it was my LCA bushings on both sides...I can only hear this noise on the passenger side so I'm 99% sure he was bs'n me

Here is audio of the noise:
http://www.box.net/shared/6iothguehu

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derone
09-28-09, 12:10 AM
Might be the swaybar frame(inner) bushings. You can spray them with wd40 to see if the noise goes away temporarily. wd40 evaporates so no harm done to the rubber. I use a mix of silicon grease and powered graphite for a permanent cure.

jcresciSTS
09-28-09, 02:00 AM
Thanks, I'll give it a try tomorrow

What would the process be for the permanent cure?

KARL DAHLEN
09-28-09, 11:00 AM
It is the torsion bar bushings. There should be a TB on it. There is a new type of bushing and clamp to fix it.