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Click !

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:46 am
by alinton
This is driving me mad!

When I accelerate, there is a CLICK that sounds like it's coming from somewhere around my right hip.

When I brake, it clicks again. It's a mechanical noise, like something is swinging or rolling forward or back.

Could be in the door, the sill, the seat...

And the strange thing is, the last BB4 I had, years ago, did the same thing and I never found what it was then either!

Any ideas what this is please?

Ta.

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:53 am
by bennyboy
I'll put a tenner on it being this:

The ball bearings in the seat rails have dried out and they now get thrown forwards and backwards under acceleration/deceleration.
I had this yeeeaaaars ago and it drove me mad, eveyone thought I was making it up I think...
I had the seats out, everything, looking for it.
Cleaned up the rails, applied new grease, sorted.

HTH

:)

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:00 am
by NafemanNathan
^^^ Exactly what I was going to suggest. Had it on 3 or 4 different ludes now :)

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:03 am
by bennyboy
In fact, just found the old pic - 2009!

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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:31 am
by Pushki
My guess is a coin rolling about in the seat rails. :jdm:

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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:48 am
by RattyMcClelland
alinton wrote: When I accelerate, there is a CLICK that sounds like it's coming from somewhere around my right hip.

When I brake, it clicks again. It's a mechanical noise,

Ta.
Recent hip surgury that you have or have not had?

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:54 am
by NafemanNathan
Recent hip surgury that you have not had? :huh:

:lol:

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:01 pm
by mercutio
yeah when you are due for a hip op it clicks :lol: a guy in the gym sounds like a bloody machine gun on the treadmill :lol:

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:07 pm
by alinton
Yea I was waiting for the hip job gags!

Thanks re the seat rails, I'll check them out!

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:58 pm
by ek9sid
I thought I had something similar in my Lagunatic...Turns out it was just a can of deodorant rolling around in the door pocket lol