HELP: Tein SS Rattle / Noise / Clicking

[jali-p5]

Well, we've finally finished the install of the Tein SS Coilovers using the stock mounts and the result is great! The coilovers handle very well on the road.

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Only one problem since getting them installed! They're making this awful clicking rattling noise that sounds as if there's metal clanking together......not really sure WTF it is but it's really beginning to piss me off!! We checked every bolt on the suspension and torqued everything up to spec, but still get this damn noise. We tried to tighten the top nut but any tighter and the rod will start to turn in place because it would have eaten through the cheap Mazda metal washers that we had to use.

We've run out of ideas, so anyone who has installed the Tein SS coilovers on their car, speak up and let me know whether you too are getting this noise. If you did and were able to fix it, please post that up here too so that we can try your suggestions.

 

[ARD MP5]

It's because it does not have independent spring preload and ride height adjustment like the JIC's. The thing that might help is getting the helper spring hardware. I do believe it is inevitable iwth that design. Call Tein and ask them if they've had any reports.

Rishie

 

[jali-p5]

figured out what was making my rattling noise......it's probably the last thing i thought it would be........

the teins come with a dust cover for the front suspensions that sit on top of your springs below the aluminum cover.....when the springs compress and decompress the plastic dust cover seems to hit the gaps, thus making the noise.......it's kinda like when you were kids all those years ago and used to put those baseball cards on your wheel spokes so that it made those flicking noise......

anyways found this out when i had my two mechanic friends take a look at the suspension........they bounced my car like madmen while looking at the suspension setup.......as the car bounced we saw the spring hit the plastic dust cover as it made the noise.......further inspection of the cover led to damage on the dust cover.......i will be contacting tein to send me replacements for their defectively designed dust cover......