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Hey,

Tonight i went out on a cruise and not long after it developed a clunking/metal-hitting-metal kind of noise after hitting big bumps but gradually got worse on the drive home, now most little bumps causes it to make the noise. The noise is coming from the front passenger side. Had a look and my left hand side tyre had a millimetre distance between the edge of the guard and the tyre (which is now back to its normal position). What i also noticed was the car was a bit sketchy to drive. Every time i would accelerate hard my steering wheel would loose it's 12'O clock position to more like 11:50-11:55 position to keep the car straight, so i figured everytime i accelerate some kind of force makes the left hand side wheel to move positions which causes the tyre to come in very close contact with the guard. Recently had a wheel alignment done at a Bridgestone branch.

Previous owner had set it up for handling and the occasional drifting. So it had consist of negative camber, toe, ect. The guy at the Bridgestone asked me if i wanted to retain those settings and i had said ofcourse. Although he did say he had set the toe back to straight apparently its bad or something.

Trying to rule out if it is the coilover that has shat it self or steering component related.

Any help would be appreciated!

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Yeah i took the left side wheel off and had a suss..shaked a few things even the hub it self to see any movement but it seems it takes alot of force to move because it didnt move a single bit when i tried.

Taking it back to Bridgestone tomorrow..it seems that have fiddled with something and didn't do it right.

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i had a knocking noise coming from one of my coilovers i though it was stuffed after removal, i found the problem was one of the nuts on the bottom of the thread where u wind them up and down was a bit loose and it allowed the spacer over the threaded part to rattle up and down slightly under load, just tightened it up and it should be all fine now. but my wheels didnt move side to side sounds like a rear cradle issue or something if your wheels are moving side to side and out towards the gaurds.

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