every time i make a tight turn at low speeds i hear a clunk coming from front/mid section of the car.
it also clunks going over bumps if the steering wheel is turned.

could it be the swaybar bushings? this started when temperature dropped a couple of months ago. never gets REALLY cold here in cali, but still colder than usual.

 

hmmmmm...i live in a very cold place and it gets down to like 15 deg. sometimes and i never heard that sound . I would also like to know why this would happen!!!

 

maybe i should add........doesnt matter what gear i'm in, sometimes i start from 2nd.
it will also do it if i'm in neutral. so i dont think anything is wrong with tranny.

 

im getting a sound like that too, but i think its because my shocks are going out...

 

Me two time for coilovers

 

it seems to be a comon noise with the evo. did u have the clutch replaced or tcase removed recently?

 

rubber shrinks when cold, so if it happens cold, it may be a bushing in the swaybar, etc. saturn ions do a clunk thing with the swaybar bushings, cold or going slow over bumps.

 

I have the same exact prob. i think the spring is not seated properly. That happens when you jump the car! I think your shocks are still good have some one check your springs.

 

no, nothing like that.
thanks for replys guys.

 

I heard that that is one cause of it (spring not being flushly seated), but I just installed coilovers 2 weeks ago and the noise is still there.

Mine only happens when the car is still cold and I am barely taking off in first or reverse. Once the car has been driven for awhile (heats up) I don't hear it anymore. It just started back in December when it got cold here.


I doubt it is the swaybar bushings, I've had them dry out and/or loosen-up before on my other cars, and you usually hear a low pitch squeeking noise when you go over bumps. It sounds like your struts are blown, but it's just the bar rubbing inside of a dry bushing (no clunking).


I think it is the swaybar end links binding-up in the cold.

 

i had this problem a few weeks ago..I got worried because I thought that it was my drivetrain or something...after a 2nd gear WOT pull it went away for good..weird huh

 

Mine does this and I don't know why. I'm gonna ignore it till it brakes! I'm sick of it and everything checked out fine.

 

^+1 Can search forever and never find it sometimes.

 

on my 2 previous cars (both mazdaspeed proteges) the "clunk" was a never ending story.
the rear swaybar bushings cluncked all the time. dealers had 5 TSBs out for them, but none fixed the problem.
it sounds like a low "thud".

bu maybe you are right, kiley, maybe the sound is produced by endlinks.
guess i'll have to wait untill it warms up in a month to see if it goes away.
sux.

 

What ever it is, it's very common with Evos (from all of the threads I've searched), happens mostly when the temperatures are cold, and doesn't present much of a problem other than noise (that I have seen from the other members).

I'd still like to find my culprit, though.