I feel like my car is playing a joke on me. When I am in first gear or any gear for that matter where there is high torqueI get a knocking noise during acceleration and then immediately during decceleration when I take my foot off the gas. I changed the dogbone bushings thinking they were shot (they were by the way) but that didn't cure the sound. I listened more today and it sounds like its coming from the top of my driver's side strut.. could it be the bushing/bearing there are bad as well?

 

maybe could be the front sway bar bushing going bad.....i have to change mine out. Thinking 22 or 25mm neuspeed again

 

I thought the dogbone mounts took X-amount of miles to break in. That while they're being broken in they will still be noisy.
I personally haven't installed them, but that's the impression I was under from reading about them. *shrugs*

 

dogbone shouldnt make any noise.....there is a TSB about the front sway bar bushing makeing a loud knocking noise at low speeds....

 

my dogbone makes some rattling at idle, but if i get it pushed up to 1k at idle i will be fine.

 

wierd...no noise here....other than the gear chatter due to the steel flywheel....also would like to know how to rasie the idle as this would cure this as well....heard you can use vag-com but i havnt seen any proof of this.

 

you can but i dont have one, i think 200rpms is it, which is ok cause thats all i really need.

 

well if you figure it out let me know for sure cause 200rpms would be perfect

 

if you have a vagcom here is how.

 

sweet