Firstly I must apologise...this is about my wife's Toyota.
I do own a Peugeot 505, but my wife bought a 2002 Camry Altise just a week ago.
It is a 4 cylinder motor with timing chain (no damn belt to cost her $500 to change !) and has done only 75,000 Ks, which appears to be genuine. She got it from a secondhand dealer.
Everything seems to be pristine, and in fact it the log books show the dates everything was done. It was owned by an old man.
Looking underneath is amazing....the original stickers are still on the suspension springs and other things.
However the suspension is clunky. If I bounce up and down with my body weight on the front and back suspension, it appears to work OK.
But whilst taking it for a drive, over medium-sized bumps you can hear a "doonk...doonk" noise when going over bumps.
It's ALMOST a loose "CLUNK".....but not quite. Hmmmm.....perhaps sometimes.
At first I thought that it was just shitty Toyota suspension, but after driving it a few times, my opinion is that there is definitely something wrong. All I can think of is that the shockies in the front AND rear have somehow deteriorated with age....it is 16 years old.
Looking under the rear, I checked the sway bar bushes but they're OK. And it's all so original under there !
Beaurepaires down the road put it up on their hoist and trhe qualified mechanic had a look but couldn't find anything.
Going over bumps, I can actually FEEL through the back of the drivers seat something loose in the rear. Plus I'm sure there is a similar noise coming from the front....or maybe it just seems that way. Noise is difficult to localize sometimes.
Shitty old Toyota shockies ? Change all shockies ? The rear ones do not have rubber bushes at the bottom....they bolt straight onto the strut. Originally I thought it may have been shockie bottom bushes, but it cannot be...
I'm stumped. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
I do own a Peugeot 505, but my wife bought a 2002 Camry Altise just a week ago.
It is a 4 cylinder motor with timing chain (no damn belt to cost her $500 to change !) and has done only 75,000 Ks, which appears to be genuine. She got it from a secondhand dealer.
Everything seems to be pristine, and in fact it the log books show the dates everything was done. It was owned by an old man.
Looking underneath is amazing....the original stickers are still on the suspension springs and other things.
However the suspension is clunky. If I bounce up and down with my body weight on the front and back suspension, it appears to work OK.
But whilst taking it for a drive, over medium-sized bumps you can hear a "doonk...doonk" noise when going over bumps.
It's ALMOST a loose "CLUNK".....but not quite. Hmmmm.....perhaps sometimes.
At first I thought that it was just shitty Toyota suspension, but after driving it a few times, my opinion is that there is definitely something wrong. All I can think of is that the shockies in the front AND rear have somehow deteriorated with age....it is 16 years old.
Looking under the rear, I checked the sway bar bushes but they're OK. And it's all so original under there !
Beaurepaires down the road put it up on their hoist and trhe qualified mechanic had a look but couldn't find anything.
Going over bumps, I can actually FEEL through the back of the drivers seat something loose in the rear. Plus I'm sure there is a similar noise coming from the front....or maybe it just seems that way. Noise is difficult to localize sometimes.
Shitty old Toyota shockies ? Change all shockies ? The rear ones do not have rubber bushes at the bottom....they bolt straight onto the strut. Originally I thought it may have been shockie bottom bushes, but it cannot be...
I'm stumped. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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