rear poly shock bushings

[scourge at cogeco.ca (Scourge)]

Yeah, I was convinced it was the seat rubbing as well. Then I noticed that 
it only did it when the rear suspension compressed, lol.
It sounds funny if you just bounce the back end of the car a bit from the 
outside, lol.


-George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allyn" <amalventano1@tds.net>
To: "'Scourge'" <scourge@cogeco.ca>; "'Craig Steiner'" 
<steiner_ca@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:38 AM
Subject: RE: rear poly shock bushings


> Hmm, the rieger has been doing that for quite some time.  I had thought it 
> was
> the pass door seal or perhaps the rear seat interior rubbing against the 
> card,
> but I suppose the poly uppers could be the culpret.  Sciroccos have this 
> very
> keen ability to 'throw' abnormal sounds in a devious effort to annoy the 
> crap
> out of you as you try to find the source...  It has thrown me off so badly 
> that
> I've changed the opposite (wrong) front wheel bearing.
>
> I'll know more once I throw a thin coat of grease on the bushings.  Should 
> be
> easy enough.
>
> Al
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Scourge [mailto:scourge@cogeco.ca]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:23 PM
>> To: Craig Steiner; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>> Subject: Re: rear poly shock bushings
>>
>> That would be me :D  ....I'm soooo proud.
>> They've only been in for a month and a half or so .... only
>> the driver's side one is squeaking. I'm wondering if the guy
>> I had do it actually used the lube on both sides like he said
>> he did. The passenger side one is silent so far.
>>
>> Anyway, it's loud, lol. Not too bad from outside the car but
>> I guess because of where it is and how it's bolted to the car
>> it gets amplified inside.
>>
>> Perspective .... I have all four poly motor mounts(now THAT's
>> loud) and I find this irritating, lol. I'd still do it again
>> though, I'm really happy with the difference over the old
>> worn out OEM ones they replaced.
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> -George -turning blacky into squeaky one red piece at a time.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Craig Steiner" <steiner_ca@hotmail.com>
>> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:09 PM
>> Subject: RE: rear poly shock bushings
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Yeah, exactly.  I'm not sure what the discussion was about,
>> since I was
>> > just skimming the first few sentences of the emails lately
>> and now I'm
>> > regretting that.  It may have been thrown in with all the
>> talk about poly
>> > vs. urethane vs. stock vs. TT (aka VW Motorsport) but I
>> could have sworn
>> > someone was talking about rear poly bushings making a sick
>> sounding noise
>> > while going over bumps and turning.  Or maybe all the G's I've been
>> > pulling at work have finally gotten to me!
>> >
>> > Speaking of which, I just found out that I will not be able
>> to fly the
>> > T-6A Texan II up to Ohio during the Cincy weekend.  I need
>> to complete
>> > that phase of training before the end of May.  Maybe next
>> year.  Thanks
>> > again to everyone who provided the airport info and advice!
>> >
>> > Craig
>> >
>> >>From: "Allyn" <amalventano1@tds.net>
>> >>To: "'Craig Steiner'" <steiner_ca@hotmail.com>,
>> <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>> >>Subject: RE: rear poly shock bushings
>> >>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:27:27 -0400
>> >>
>> >>What noise?
>> >>
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Craig Steiner [mailto:steiner_ca@hotmail.com]
>> >> > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:13 PM
>> >> > To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>> >> > Subject: rear poly shock bushings
>> >> >
>> >> > Ok, I now regret just skimming through list emails as of
>> >> > late.  Was there a discussion on the noise that rear poly
>> >> > shock bushings make after a few months?  If so, what's the
>> >> > best way to prevent that?  I was going to put them in today
>> >> > with the new coilovers but my scheduled changed at work.
>> >> > Should go in Saturday (fingers crossed).
>> >> >
>> >> > Craig
>> >> >
>> >> >
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