Got a loud annoying rattle from front end of my 2010 1.6tdci

Heard all the time on anything other than billiard-table smooth roads

Parts changed so far:

Complete wishbones

Drop-links

TCAs

Shocks/Topmounts

Anti-rollbar bushes

 

At my wits end. The steering feels perfect but is it possible its the rack? Cant think of anything else i havent changed…

Driveshafts ?

Does it still rattle on full lock on a rough road ?

Off topic but we had a bad rattle/clatter/rattle on our old car, drove us nuts, we took it to a friends garage and got the car up, nothing could be spotted, then my mate spotted something shinny and it was a spanner on the subframe, it was bouncing up and hitting the engine, spanner removed and the noise went 

34 minutes ago, madcourier said:

Heard all the time on anything other than billiard-table smooth roads

How do you know that ? 🤣

1 hour ago, Ian Lanc said:

Does it still rattle on full lock on a rough road ?

That happens on mine, is it a common thing?

Check the headlights and air box are both tight.  They can rattle against the chassis and create a balljoint type noise if loose.

Thats a good shout Tom. I’ll check those.

Im not sure how the driveshafts would rattle like that? Theres certainly no cv type clicking on full lock etc

Our car has just started with a flamin whoop whoop noise, then rattle going over ramps, took it to a local garage, flamin antiroll bar bush has given up, always something isn't there.

Here's a thing!!! Have you checked the ally exhaust protectors on the chassis ?? They are common in corroding around the bolt hole, thus starting to rattle, we had two go on our car, just fitted repair washers over the wrecked alloy, then retightened the bolts.

 

Had any work on the brakes lately?

Only mention because of a recent experience on my VW Polo.

Rattling noise, really annoying coming from front end. Went to 2 different garages one of them twice.  Checked everything and even road tested but no joy.

After putting up with it for a few more weeks I realised that the noise didn't happen when using the brakes. 

Back to the garage and they inspected the brakes and turned out to be loose pads. New pads fitted and rattle gone. Worth checking??

Yep i’ll check that in the morning by feathering the brakes a little.

If i didnt know that they’d been replaced id swear it was top mounts. The noise is identical to top mounts hanging out the thing

Checked headlights and airbox. All tight. Feathering brakes makes no difference either 😞

22 hours ago, madcourier said:

Yep i’ll check that in the morning by feathering the brakes a little.

If i didnt know that they’d been replaced id swear it was top mounts. The noise is identical to top mounts hanging out the thing

Might be worth checking the nuts on top of the shock.  If the shock isn't counterheld then it'll spin before the nut is fully tight.

Yeh you mean if the allen bolt isnt held at same time as nut tightened?

Thats a bugger. Need to remove front struts to check?

11 hours ago, madcourier said:

Yeh you mean if the allen bolt isnt held at same time as nut tightened?

Thats a bugger. Need to remove front struts to check?

Most techs gun them up so would need to use mole grips on the shock shaft as no access to Allen head like that.

Should be able to access the top nuts without removing shocks.  Though you may need to remove the scuttle panel on a Mk7, never tried it on one of those.

It can be accessed on the car, you need deep offset 18mm ring spanner though and of course the Allen key.

Awesome Jay. Thanks