Clunking noise over small bumps?

LOL WUT

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Just noticed today pulling into the driveway that my MS3 is making a clunking noise when going over small bumps/railroad tracks. I lowered the car about a month ago on H&R springs and everything has been fine so far. The car still handles just fine and makes no noise if I am driving on a flat road and swerve side to side. However when going over bumps slowly I can hear and slightly feel a clunking from the front of the car. I can slightly feel it in the steering wheel and peddles, it feels like the clunk is a the result of a side to side motion but I am really not too sure. I won't have time to get the car on the lift until friday sometime, but if anyone has a heads up on what to look for first that would be great.

The car just rolled 13k today so if I can't figure it out myself I can always run to the stealership. I'm going to look over everything I worked on for the spring install and make sure it's all tight. But if I can't resolve the problem, tips on what to look for next would be great.

Thanks.
 
Check all your suspension attachment points -- something's worked loose, probably. Did you use loctite where needed?
 
Check all your suspension attachment points -- something's worked loose, probably. Did you use loctite where needed?

I did use loctite where needed and dropped the car at the dealership friday morning. On the way over the car wasn't making any noise and the dealership could not get the car to replicate the sound so I am still unsure of what is going on up there. Ill keep a close eye on things and see if the sound returns. Thanks for the suggestion!
 
Hope you get it figured out. A month or so after I installed my Cobb RSB, I noticed a clunk driving over sharp driveway transitions. Turns out I didn't put enough LocTite on the bar. One of the end-link nuts had loosened. Backed off both the nuts and put a bit more LT -- It's "declunkanized"
 
Check your endlinks. I had clunking with them before and found one that was really loose. I haven't had a problem since.
 
I would be careful LOL WUT, my car makes the same noise and it would go away for a while and come back. I have yet to fix it, but I will try the endlinks thing.
 

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