Have An annooying bang over bumps you can't figure out? CLICK (LONNNNG)
 

Recently, There has been a lot of roadwork going on in my town and ive been hitting a lot of bumps...On my way to work last night, as i was traveling down my road (which is decently bumpy) I kept hearing a metallic, banging/clunking noise in the passenger side rear of my car...Yay, i think first... A blown Strut! JUST WHAT I NEED...but the more I listened to it, the less it sounded like a blown strut...it only did it on certain types of bumps, and even on hard bumps that you would expect noise...NOTHING... So i looked to other areas...
Figuring it was my stock jack that was rattling around loose...I removed it, and took another ride...bang was still there.
So I removed all things in my trunk to see if that would eliminate it...of course, It didn't...
Time to get ambitions...
I crawled on my back down to take a look at what we had goin on...and began to shake my exhaust...a little bit of noise but not what i was hearing...
So, I decided to trace all the way from the muffler to the y-pipe and see what i could do....
well, about midway between my resonator and muffler, i found that the weld on the hangar there had broken so the b-pipe could wobble...
The hangar metal piece was still secure in its rubber hangar tho, and I figured that the bpipe could be hitting that...so i removed the old rusted piece of metal, and just in case kept moving along the b pipe...
Well right before I hit the resonator, I find a Similar situation..and I remove that broken metal piece also... Road TEST
STILL THE FRICKIN BANGING....
I get back under the car and get ****ED and shake things a little harder than I was Before...CLANG CLANG CLANG..
I go back to where the second broken Hangar is, and see that the B pipe is smacking against a metal crossbrace when you move the pipe just right!
I Hope to god this is finally whats wrong, but now I need to fix it..
I go downstairs, and by some miracle, find some Braided steel cord (yay it can't burn!)...and proceed to crawl back under the car, and figure out that i can tie the cord around the heat shield and under the b pipe so that the bpipe wont have enough travel to bang the crossmember...
A test ride yielded an absolutely SILENT car YAY! and thankfully this can be a decently long term "temporary fix" because the cord cannot burn, and its not hurting anything!
But, rest assured i will get a budget b-pipe ASAP!

I just wanted to post this to save others the hassle i went through!
Peace:laugh:

ur one of the lucky ones that could find the problem, i've got so much noise coming from up front...i narrowed it down to a few things though, strut bar hiting the fire wall stuff on the hood, radiator moving around which last time i checked isnt good, and all the plastic stuff under the car that screws on the front bumper, oh well...i fixed it by geting a louder system :laugh: good post though, i had the same problem but from the brackets that hold the cat and the end of the y pipe up, they rusted away...if those rust fix them asap or at least tie somthing on it, the added wieght on the flex part of the y pipe will ruin a stock y pipe which it did mine or make an after market one do the bees in the can sound

--Dan

i have a clang noise on my drivers side tire when i hit a bump hard, but im lowered, its supposed to make noises :D...


Eric

I had a clanking noise from the rear too. Went to my mechanic and he test drove it and he couldn't hear the sound I heard before, but he did use a torch thing to weld that little piece to the b-pipe so it wouldn't make that noise. Now the exhaust isn't hitting the bottom of my car anymore :)

I'm still waiting to see if I hear that other noise again so I can get that fixed for free to :D