IF YOU HAVE CLICKING FROM ENGINE OR ANYTHING of the sort PLEASEEEEEE READ!!!!!!

[8.5MS3]

Try this if you can:

Park the car on a level surface, put it in 1st gear with the parking brake off.
Open the hood, grab something solid in the front of the engine compartment and try rocking the car back and forth.

Can you hear the same noise?

I hear a creaking sound, not as lound but its there. but wouldnt that just be the gears being loaded one way or the other? the creaking i hear is when the car begins to move. now that i think about it it could be anything, slack in the gears (hope not), clutch begining to show wear (probably not), flex in the suspension (hope not), cv joints (same deal). any of these scenarios are not good.....

but some are experiencing this in the right wheel area...that at least should eliminate the tranny...so its suspension, axles, or cv joints....ideas?

 

[H3br3w_Ham3r]

I hear a creaking sound, not as lound but its there. but wouldnt that just be the gears being loaded one way or the other? the creaking i hear is when the car begins to move. now that i think about it it could be anything, slack in the gears (hope not), clutch begining to show wear (probably not), flex in the suspension (hope not), cv joints (same deal). any of these scenarios are not good.....

but some are experiencing this in the right wheel area...that at least should eliminate the tranny...so its suspension, axles, or cv joints....ideas?

I think the problem could be a bunch of forum members getting excited about one isolated incident. We've seen motor mounts fail before but not this. Lets see if it happens again and then we can all panic (attn).

 

[8.5MS3]

O I'm not panicking at all...just pissed that this car is a potential rattlebox with bad cv joints or whatever at 7500 miles. Where the **** was quality control when these rolled off the assembly line??

 

[matsuda]

I think the problem could be a bunch of forum members getting excited about one isolated incident. We've seen motor mounts fail before but not this. Lets see if it happens again and then we can all panic (attn).

One? Right now, I am counting 3 (myself included).

 

[matsuda]

When the car was on the lift, we gave the front wheels a few rotations with the car off and it made the same sound. Most definitely coming from either within the tranny or the CV joint. Could also be a bearing issue but the clicking isn't constant nor does it change with speed - it is most definitely load related.

Were you able to verify that the CV boots are OK?

 

[turbo23]

I have clicking noise. But i do not believe it is from the CV joint area. I can hear it when idle, but under power my car is too loud to hear it. It def sounds engine, but there hasnt been around noticable problems. I also have all my mounts replaced. I just did my AWR passenger mount today.

 

[derspi]

Were you able to verify that the CV boots are OK?

Boots looked fine, nothing wrong from a visual standpoint and there were no obvious signs of leakage.

 

[H3br3w_Ham3r]

One? Right now, I am counting 3 (myself included).

Your engine has fallen over to the side and drivetrain was damaged? I'm sure lots of people hear clicking. I get a tiny metal click from a start sometime but usually not.

 

[Super Unique]

cv joints make a very distinct noise when they are loose, and it is more pronounced while making a turn, and not noticeable at all in a straight line until it's too late. If your getting it in a straight line I would say it's not them.

One thing I did notice while checking my car out recently (due to noise in front which turned out to be broken battery tray bracket due to cobb intake mount) the passenger side half shaft has a slip joint between the differential housing and the carrier bearing before going into the passenger side axle, this slip joint seems to have quite a bit of loose play left and right. Perhaps this is what your hearing. But I can't honestly say it would make a noise in straight line forces.

The only way the cv joints should be making any noise is if the boots are torn or contaminated by dirt, which is very , very unusual for a car with such low mileage.

 

[liquidflem]

Yeah, what he said !!

So is this the infamous tranny mount bolt issue, or something else ? I will be interested to see what he finds out.

What is this tranny mount bolt issue?

 

[liquidflem]

Ok, so does this sound like the same issue? I have an apt. this Saturday. I guess i should take my corksport inserts out too.

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123747719

One of my friend's said he thought it might be the clutch throw out bearing, but i have since ruled this out since it doesnt make any noise when it is not in gear and makes the same noise when accelerating or decelerating. It does it almost everytime i put the car in reverse and start moving. Car now has ~8.5k miles on it.

I had it recently too. Would let out a noticeable metallic "click" when I let off the gas in mostly 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear sometimes even in 4th but it all depends on how much load you're putting into it. This noise coincided with when I first had my CPE 60-duro mount put in and although it was really only intermittent at first, a couple of weeks ago, it got much more frequent. To the point that I thought the rear MM had come loose or something was wrong with it. Of course, nothing was wrong with it nor was it loose so I just put the stock MM on for now to see what would happen. Lo and behold, I haven't had the click come back at all so far and it's been just over a week now.

This describes my problem almost exactly... I can say i remember this happening occasionally, but now MUCH more frequent now that i have the corksport inserts.

 

[liquidflem]

hi everyone ok so first here is the story: i heard clicking from the front and heard a few different reason it could be clicking. my thoughts were either an axle or motor mount. long story short i was driving and i dropped the axle it just made a loud clank. i pulled over right away and popped my hood turns out my motor is sagging to the tranny side and the axle popped and tore threw the cv joint rubber thing. i will have pictures tomorrow to show what i mean... i personally couldnt believe it when it happened and when i saw what it actually was... keep in mind this car is brand new it is a 09 mazdaspeed 3 with 3572 miles. only mods are cobb turbo inlet, cobb short ram intake, and fmic.

Did you ever end up taking pics?

Edit:// sorry for the triple post ;x

 

[liquidflem]

I took my car into Millennium Mazda today and showed them the sound that I think we are all talking about. They had it for about an hour and said that they think it's the ABS pump making the noise and not to worry about it. I'm taking it to Capital Mazda in Cary, NC next Saturday for a second opinion.

 

[8.5MS3]

well i figured out my clicking/creaking noise. it was a combination of a click from the cobb sri mounting bracket and the worm clamps on my tip tapping against the ecu/battery box as the engine rocked a bit under load

 

[derspi]

I took my car into Millennium Mazda today and showed them the sound that I think we are all talking about. They had it for about an hour and said that they think it's the ABS pump making the noise and not to worry about it. I'm taking it to Capital Mazda in Cary, NC next Saturday for a second opinion.

What kind of diagnosis is that - pretty obvious they're just giving you the run around. Why would the ABS pump make an obvious metallic click/clunk sound?

You mentioned that you have the CS inserts, did you take those out and put back on the stock MM? If you haven't, I'd suggest you give that a try first as it seems to have worked for me. It's been well over 2 weeks now and the clicking noises have not returned.

 

[liquidflem]

What kind of diagnosis is that - pretty obvious they're just giving you the run around. Why would the ABS pump make an obvious metallic click/clunk sound?

You mentioned that you have the CS inserts, did you take those out and put back on the stock MM? If you haven't, I'd suggest you give that a try first as it seems to have worked for me. It's been well over 2 weeks now and the clicking noises have not returned.

I think that is a good idea, but i tried taking the inserts out and cannot seem to get the damn MM back out. The 3 bolts holding the bracket on are so tight that i can't loosen them.

 

[Nliiitend1]

I think that is a good idea, but i tried taking the inserts out and cannot seem to get the damn MM back out. The 3 bolts holding the bracket on are so tight that i can't loosen them.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Category.taf?CategoryID=108

 

[liquidflem]

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Category.taf?CategoryID=108

Thanks, there is a harbor freight here in Durham.

 

[matsuda]

I think that is a good idea, but i tried taking the inserts out and cannot seem to get the damn MM back out. The 3 bolts holding the bracket on are so tight that i can't loosen them.

Use a breaker bar.

 

[liquidflem]

I tried that and still couldn't get them to loosen. I'm going tomorrow to get one of those impact wrenches from Harbor Freight.