Digbicks1234
16.5 CX-5 Touring/2023 CX-9 Touring
It is very surprising to me as well. I spent a lot of time combing through YouTube and various other forums/sources to determine what else that I could've missed for anything that has any movement at all in the suspension and 90% of the time, it was something to do with either one of the below:That IS surprising. I wouldn't've thought a loose locknut would allow noise. Hmmm.
- Sway bar end links: Bushings broken/not fully tightened.
- Sway bar bushings: Worn out and causing the sway bar to contact the frame.
- Front struts: Most of the videos/forums mentioned the shock absorber being broken, upper mounts were going bad or the center top nut not being fully tightened. I even found a thread where a guy mentioned he spent $2-5k at a mechanic to have the front struts replaced 3 times and still heard the noise lol.....
- Control arm bushings: This caused the side to side movement as the bushings were town and no longer dampening the sound.
- Suspension preloading: I stumbled upon very few of these being mentioned and I am not sure if we actually need to do that for the CX-5 as I did not see this being indicated for a lot of the components when going through the service manual unless I missed it but for most of the comments, they did indicate premature wear of the bushings if the components with bushings were not fully tightened/torqued at ride-height. I'm still wondering if I should go back and tighten everything at right-height at the moment....
- Defective aftermarket parts: Saw something about this in the Toyota Tacoma forums where there was a defect with one of the struts or control arms I believe but it wasn't as common as #1 - 4.