So I am driving down the road the other night. its two lanes going in each direction, and I am coming towards an intersection where i have the green light, doing about 40mph. Some jackass decides to take a left turn directly in front of me, and when realizes that I am coming straight at his broad side.... stops. Now this all happened when I was probably within 100-150 feet of him. He turned far enough that his car was fully sideways and the nose was into my right lane. I swerve at full speed, completely around the nose of his car and all the sudden I am looking at a telephone pole. So i swerve back away from it to completely miss everything. any of you auto-xer's imagine a bus stop type shape but take it at 40 and only have about 30 feet to cut it 15 feet right and then back to the left. (BTW I am very proud of my car for handling that manuever.... all the handling mods in it have officially paid for themselves. without them the car never woulda handled that move)

Well, I notice now that my front suspension feels weird. Its a little loose, it is noisy, and when making a slow sharp turn (ala pulling into a parking space) I am occasionally getting a clunking noise. Car is going into the shop tomorrow, but I wanted to know if any of you had any ideas.

 

ball joints?

 

endlinks?

 

CV Axles maybe?

 

the only time I have ever heard that noise before was in my old intrepid. After an accident, one of the struts was replaced and the part ended up being defective and would clunk.... it finally had to be replaced.... who knows tho.

 

Thank god those rims are ok.

 

haha, that they are...

 

Oh I couldn't find the lug nuts for those rims when I sold it to you.

Found them earlier this week. D'OH!

GL with the shop gotta get ready for a job interview.

 

Sounds like a C V joint.

 

well let me be the first to say nice driving.

 

damn that sucks bro, but could have been much worse!

 

yea it definitely could have been a whole hell of a lot worse... i woulda creamed him.

thanks.... if i wasn't shaking after it... i woulda been very impressed at the time

 

Well they found nothing.... and of course cant recreate the noise. He did try and say that solid transmission mounts would void my warranty... but of course we all know better.

oh well...

 

if u had springs u could easily manuaver that car especially around 40mph

 

springs, rear sway, front strut, lower profile and wider tires.

it handled beautifully... i was proud.

 

I believe there's a recall involving a clunk in the front suspension...may want to check that out.