However during one attempt at compressing, I had my hands on the hood and heard it. I was trying to get the wheels compressed in the orientation that the noise happens and would then press sharply down and side to side on the body over every wheel. While making a spectacle for the tenants of the nearby apartment building by circling repeatedly on the slanted rooftop level of my parking garage, I discovered my noise. Namely all the forums describing this type of noise as being suspensions related, I watched a video of a guy with a bad lower control arm and he was able to make a nearly identical noise, and it seemed getting an underbody wash temporarily quieted the noise. Throughout this time I had a few factors making me tunnel vision on the suspension. Asked me to come back when it gets worse, which I hated to hear but knew that was the best answer he could give me. He does the job and as predicted the noise was not fixed. Oh well, they're torn bad so they need doing anyways. He showed me how the front control arm bushings are torn pretty bad, but he didn't think the noise was from them. It gnawed at the back of my mind knowing this car I loved to drive had this imperfection that passengers noticed.Д«rought it back to the original mechanic, he heard the noise again and we could replicate it reliably over the driveway to his shop. Over the course of about 5 months the sound devolved from a knock into this drawn out creaking groan. The original mechanic wanted me to come back if it got worse. They said it wasn't a safety issue and my car-savvy boss dissuaded me from approving their $1600 quote to replace all the axles. I bring it to a second mechanic, they hear the noise loud and clear over their pothole filled parking lot and the best they could come up with was they were able to shake the passenger front axle and hear a noise in the car. They wouldn't want to work on it and charge me without being more confident of the fix (big respect, left them a 5 star google review).

Checked for anything loose in the engine bay as it was distinctly coming from the front passenger area, nothing.ДЄ few weeks pass and I'm getting annoyed so I bring it to one shop who told me my suspension was well worn but not enough to make the noise (car had 52k miles).

one wheel is raised on the incline while the rest are on the flat original surface). A month into ownership I started hearing what sounded like something bonking around in my glove box when my car would turn onto an incline (i.e. This is a story about my past 6 or so months of annoyance hell and how I solved it in 2 minutes with no tools.Д«ought my 2014 Audi S5 towards the end of last Fall. I extended and evened out the hood stops and the sound is entirely gone. It was my misaligned hood, not my suspension. TLDR: My car would creak/groan when turning onto inclines.

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