So, I drive a super twisty road every day on my commute. (one lane wide, lots of second gear hair pins) I have replaced alot of the basic suspension components to stiffen the car up for better handling. The problem is that now I get some nasty creaking sounds from the rear of the car on this road, and now on any road when the seven has been sitting in the sun on a hot day. Is this due to excessive body flex? How do I fix this? It's sounding like something is not good.

 

Hatch not closed tightly?
You might want to adjust the two latches to see if this helps?


-Ted

 

how are your bushings doing? After 15+ years they start to deteriorate.

 

or, if you replaced your bushings, you do realize that they can need to be oiled, right?

 

1) Wonkos right.. if you replaced the bushings with poly and didn't grease 'em... El Squeeko profuso..

2) My Hatch started squeakin like a bitch after i did my AGX/Eibach install,,, My solution was to wrap a couple turns of electrical tape around the middle of the latch loops.. solved the problem lickity split!

 

I used the grease from the energy kit when I installed the bushings. Man, that's some stickey crap! I didn't grease the UHMW rear diff and subframe bushings from MMR when I installed them. Would they need grease too? The creaking definately seems to be comming from the inside though. I'll check the hatch and get back.

Thanks for all the help.