Finally figured out the squeak in the rear of my car!

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Jul 11, 2014 | 01:44 PM
  #1  
Boy god is good! Lol

After dealing with this squeak since December And thinking it was my bushings I replaced them. That did not help so I put back the poly urathane a from RL and I put antisieze on them. Again that did not help!!

I started looking online and with research I was more than confident that it it was my strut mounts going bad.

Before getting new struts involved I decided to go to firestone and have them inspect my car. Within 10 minutes of driving my car the store manager was able to identify the problem..

It was the damn metal hanger mount on my exhaust YPipe rubbing against the metal holding the hanger.

He sawed off a piece the the metal holding the exhaust hanger so they would no longer touch and now the squeak is completely gone! I can't begin to explain how relieved I am that it was something so simple instead of my struts going out at only 48000 miles.

For all that are wondering what cause this problem, it was the RL YPipe!!

Damn thing is about half an inch longer than the stock YPipe so it pushed the exhaust forward causing the metal hanger frame to eventually touch. Damn Canadians and their metric system! Lol hahaha
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Jul 11, 2014 | 07:27 PM
  #2  
Quote: Boy god is good! Lol

After dealing with this squeak since December And thinking it was my bushings I replaced them. That did not help so I put back the poly urathane a from RL and I put antisieze on them. Again that did not help!!

I started looking online and with research I was more than confident that it it was my strut mounts going bad.

Before getting new struts involved I decided to go to firestone and have them inspect my car. Within 10 minutes of driving my car the store manager was able to identify the problem..

It was the damn metal hanger mount on my exhaust YPipe rubbing against the metal holding the hanger.

He sawed off a piece the the metal holding the exhaust hanger so they would no longer touch and now the squeak is completely gone! I can't begin to explain how relieved I am that it was something so simple instead of my struts going out at only 48000 miles.

For all that are wondering what cause this problem, it was the RL YPipe!!

Damn thing is about half an inch longer than the stock YPipe so it pushed the exhaust forward causing the metal hanger frame to eventually touch. Damn Canadians and their metric system! Lol hahaha
Glad you got it fixed, always good to bring it to light again and too bad RL hasn't made mention about it with their install instructions...it has been an issue reported in earlier threads though
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