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Old Jun 13, 2015 | 09:25 PM
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Coilover Issues

I've had a bad clunk coming from my driver side rear whenever I go bumps for the past few months, yesterday I finally figure it out. I thought it was a bad bushing but it ended up being my spring was sitting loosely with the suspension relaxed. I could easily move it around, it was not held firmly in place like it should be.

The only way I could see to fix this was by raising the ride height to eliminate the looseness with the suspension relaxed. This worked and eliminated the clunk but I had to raised my ride height up about a half inch and I don't like it.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any other way to fix this?
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Old Jun 13, 2015 | 11:35 PM
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Maybe cut a donut shaped piece of rubber to go under the spring? See if that helps
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Old Jun 14, 2015 | 12:46 AM
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That would probably work, but that still would raise my ride height.
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Old Jun 17, 2015 | 12:50 AM
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Coilover Issues

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Old Jun 17, 2015 | 11:09 AM
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i have the same sound but haven't figured out what is causing it
thought it was my exhaust but that doesn't seam to move

interested on a fix
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Old Jun 17, 2015 | 10:23 PM
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Coilover Issues

I thought it was my exhaust at first too, then after eliminating that I thought it was bad trailing arm bushing until I accidentally found out it was the coilovers.
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Old Jun 27, 2015 | 08:33 PM
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you have bc coils? its normal for the springs to be loose when the car is lifted,
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Old Jun 27, 2015 | 11:06 PM
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Coilover Issues

They're Pedders but I think they're all similar. So does everyone with coilovers have this problem and just ignore it?
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Old Jun 29, 2015 | 08:46 PM
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i dont hear the clunk anymore
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Old Jun 29, 2015 | 09:15 PM
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your shock is loose
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Old Jun 29, 2015 | 11:18 PM
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Lose as in how? Excessive wear?

I didn't have this problem until I relaxed the dampening rate.
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Old Jun 29, 2015 | 11:18 PM
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Loose as in how? Excessive wear?

I didn't have this problem until I relaxed the dampening rate.
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