H&R rattle from rear - update

[Ally]

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=170535&highlight=H&R

I'd posted up the above thread - basically there's a rattle from my rear H&R coilovers over bumps. I thought it was caused by the bottom of the spring rattling against the lower spring platform (it's a metal-to-metal contact). But it's not...

Popped mine off yesterday, thinking I'd fit a bit of rubber between the bottom of the spring and the lower spring platform to solve the metal-to-metal rattle, and it'd all be hunky dory. Nope.

The rattle isn't actually caused by the spring rattling against the platform: it's actually the threaded bit of the lower spring platform rattling in the bit it threads into... So there wasn't much I could do about that.

I'm wondering if some loctite or threadlok or similar would do the trick - might stop it from rattling around?

Just in case anyone else has the problem and was thinking along the same lines as me...

Ally

 

[clidge]

hey up mate although i have not got h&r i have apex springs and mine is making the same metal to metal contact is there anyway around this cos the car did not use to do this when i first had them fitted or when i had them on my other clios??? cheers mate

 

[Ally]

Hmm, I had Apex springs for 18 months before getting the H&Rs and didn't have any noise from mine... Make sure you've got the rubber bit between the bottom of the spring and where the spring sits on the axle - that's where I thought the noise on my H&Rs was coming from but I was wrong...

Anyone else with suggestions? (for either of us lol)

 

[Iain C]

ah mine is doing this too....rear left over very bumpy roads.
Havent bothered to check it tho.
My apex springs where fine too

 

[Dubai182]

Maybe take it to a garage for them to have a look at? Always easier up on ramps. Are they still under warranty?

 

[Ally]

My H&Rs are only a couple of months old and I fitted them myself so I'm guessing no warranty there.

I know what the rattle is now, just a case of how I can fix it. Thinking of siliconing the spring platforms into place - that'd stop the rattles I'm sure. Had it up on axle stands last night for a good poke around.

Iain - does yours sounds like a jiggly, metallic rattle? (hard to describe, can't think of the last time I used the word jiggly...)

 

[Fred@BTM]

just wind them all the way down, then it won't rattle

 

[Iain C]

^^^lol
Yer ally...i couldnt think wot the problem was as there isnt much to go wrong really

 

[Gaz_]

i think the rear platforms on these are overly complex. I actually prefere the gaz/fk type platform

 

[ant]

like a jiggly, metallic rattle?

i get that at certain rpm's.

didnt someone say it was the hatch lock?

 

[cli0 172]

just wind them all the way down, then it won't rattle

says it all .....

 

[clidge]

hi guys if i dont have the rubber bit where can i get them from dont think the garage must have fit them?

 

[Dan Page]

i think the rear platforms on these are overly complex. I actually prefere the gaz/fk type platform

i'll second that, although the h&r's are much better all round i think the fk platforms are a much better idea...

FK's:

H & R's:

 

[christurbo]

They come off your std rear springs.