for a while now ive heard a knock noise for the rear of the car first it was on the left now its on both of the sides.. i dont kno wat it might be but its getin annoying ive heard its my suspendtion dampers but i aint sure ive heard i should get a sway bar on my lancer due to the fact that the ES model does not come with one
plzzzzzzzzzzzz i need help ASAP

 

Might be a rock stuck in the suspension.

 

Well, your car is now 5 years old... could the shocks be dead? Tophats worn out? Loose nut? You just gotta check around...

It's not the lack of swaybar, so don't worry about that.

 

get back there with a wrench and tighten every bolt and nut you see that has anything to do with a moving suspension part. It helped my front stop rattling.

 

i hardly dont its cause of rock i mean its like i live in a area dat has alot of rocks nd stuff.... i am goin 2 check the bolt thing i duno wat else 2 do if anything i might just go get my car checked out by a mitsubishi dealer

 

Yeah, just get it checked by the dealership. If you're not that knowledgeable, you're not going to be able to find/diagnose/fix a problem when you get under there.

 

i would get it checked out by mitsubishi yet again i wanna learn myself cause i dont wanna keep payin for a check that shyt cost money nd tyme

 

Well, if you want to learn, you probably want a knowledgeable friend to help then. If you just lay under the car and look around, there's about a 5% chance you'll solve the problem yourself.

The key is that you want to learn - you need a teacher.

 

I agree I would check all suspension mounting bolts, another thing I would look into is maybe the rear wheel bearings? That could possibly cause some knocking. As far as the sway bar goes, I recommend getting it. Night and day difference on the wifes car( 03 ES)!!!! Plus those guys over there at RRM are really helpful

 

How is the handling since you noticed the noise? The handling on my 03 ES went from good (with the Road///Race sway bar) to kind of clunky and bumpy and, well, noisy. I'm not saying your noise is definitely the dampers, but that's what my knocking noise was. I was hoping that maybe it was just the wires from the new taillights I got recently rattling around, needing to be secured. Today I had it looked at in the shop where I work and both my rear struts are leaking. yay...

 

Well I got my struts changed a couple of months back I want to change the dampers but I don't kno which 1's too change cause I called mitsubishi nd they r like there is a couple suspendtion dampers

 

If it's Misubishi you spoke with then they can probably only sell you factory parts. So, what they probably mean by "a couple suspension dampers" is "do you have an ES or an OZ?" Not to flame on you, but if you do a search, you'll find that in 2002 and 2003, the Lancer had two available suspensions. There was the ironically less produced base ES Lancer suspension, and there was the more common OZ/LS suspension. I say ironically because this is one of the few cars that they made more of the "performance" version of than they did the "base" version. Other than suspension and bolt pattern, the two are basically the same. Same engine, same output.