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Please someone help me no one can fix my car problem!

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jbyrne

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For the past month I've had a metallic snapping sound coming from the front left side of my car, it makes the noise when I'm stopped and then begin to accelerate, it also does it when I hit certain bumps, and i can really duplicate the noise if i rock the car left and right (this was really duplicates the noise. I replaced the struts cause I was told that seems to look like the only thing that's wrong with my car and that solved nothing. Please someone tell me if you have any idea what is causing this
 


For the past month I've had a metallic snapping sound coming from the front left side of my car, it makes the noise when I'm stopped and then begin to accelerate, it also does it when I hit certain bumps, and i can really duplicate the noise if i rock the car left and right (this was really duplicates the noise. I replaced the struts cause I was told that seems to look like the only thing that's wrong with my car and that solved nothing. Please someone tell me if you have any idea what is causing this
 
You know I have this same issue except on the right side(passenger) of the car, and I was thinking maybe one of my strut mounts was broken.
 


Worth replacing especially for how cheap they are. You never know it could fix the issue your having.. The key part is that it occurs from a stop which usually indicates a bad mount somewhere.
 
Hopefully you did strut mounts as well the clunking is probably your sway Bar and relates bushings and end links
 
And it's not a clunk it kinda sounds like when you run over a pop can, that kind of snapping crunching noise is what happens
 


it also resembles the noise of snapping twigs and i don't believe that's it, its more towards the front of the car
 
I haven't looked at those mounts yet but I'm going to the mechanic again tomorrow so i will tell him to look at those as well
 


You can check these things yourself..without spending money on a mechanic. Jack the car up and remove the wheel and check for anything visibly broken like the sway bar, endlinks, mounts etc. ill take you 15 mins to do and can save you quite a bit.
 
REDCOMPG said:
You can check these things yourself..without spending money on a mechanic. Jack the car up and remove the wheel and check for anything visibly broken like the sway bar, endlinks, mounts etc. ill take you 15 mins to do and can save you quite a bit.
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i have checked for anything broken and there doesnt appear to be anything.

I will also give that a try and see what happens
 
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