Clunk Information

[girth]

I think the guy I talked to on the phone was the red faced blonde guy. He was the guy that asked if I went on a internet board and bad talked Don Miller Mazda

**** it - if you won't bad talk them then I will!!!! I tried buying my MSP from them and offered a very reasonable deal for the both of us. The jerk salesman just said "we'd rather you buy from somebody else than have us sell you the car and make 0 profit." There's nothing wrong with that statement by itself, but I assure you that the dealership stood to make much more than 0 dollars on the sale. F-ing jerks. Needless to say I didn't buy from them and never will. - especially since they're being assholes about giving service under warrenty -- WTF Mazda pays them to service us and they've changed bushings so many damn times they can probably do it in a record short time, so why they hell would they argue about giving you service. It's :bs: and pisses me off. There's precious few MSP and MP3 dealers in Wisconsin the way it is and then the few that we do have are all dicks.

 

[yashooa]

I cannot believe there are still people in this forum that do not know what the clunk is yet

yashooa. Looking under your car is not going to achieve anything. You won't "see" the bushings not working and the bar will only move once the bushings get really really bad after a LONG time

No s*** ya mean it won't jump out at me and say ,"Hi I'm the clunk."
I take a hold of the entire bar and attempt to move it the bar is completely tight there is not one single solitary bit of play and no evidence what so ever of any deterioration of the bushings.
I have checked and inspected all the individual peices and not one has any visible indication of damage.
So I know some where my sub enclosure has come loose. I shoved a baby stroller under it and then it started to make noise after the stroller event.

Sometimes Newf you are a ******* retard!

 

[Notorious]

**** it - if you won't bad talk them then I will!!!! I tried buying my MSP from them and offered a very reasonable deal for the both of us. The jerk salesman just said "we'd rather you buy from somebody else than have us sell you the car and make 0 profit." There's nothing wrong with that statement by itself, but I assure you that the dealership stood to make much more than 0 dollars on the sale. F-ing jerks. Needless to say I didn't buy from them and never will. - especially since they're being assholes about giving service under warrenty -- WTF Mazda pays them to service us and they've changed bushings so many damn times they can probably do it in a record short time, so why they hell would they argue about giving you service. It's :bs: and pisses me off. There's precious few MSP and MP3 dealers in Wisconsin the way it is and then the few that we do have are all dicks.

Exactly. If the guy is gonna say that he won't replace bushings because you don't like their dealership he shouldn't have a job there. If you have a warranty issue they have to honor it. If they don't I would fire off a nasty gram to mazda usa about that dealership.

 

[DooMer_MP3]

No s*** ya mean it won't jump out at me and say ,"Hi I'm the clunk."
I take a hold of the entire bar and attempt to move it the bar is completely tight there is not one single solitary bit of play and no evidence what so ever of any deterioration of the bushings.
I have checked and inspected all the individual peices and not one has any visible indication of damage.
So I know some where my sub enclosure has come loose. I shoved a baby stroller under it and then it started to make noise after the stroller event.

Sometimes Newf you are a ******* retard!

I guess you are strong enough to emulate what even a small bump will do to a suspension in an instant when it is under load and the car is moving. I guess I'll believe it when I see you bend a swaybar by hand torsionally. Newf's point is that you wont be able to replicate it by hand until it becomes VERY worn ie to the point where the bushings are SO WORN they are ready to fall off.

Either way, I thought it was my sub, my spare, and my shock for about a month before I read about it on here. And it was none of them. It was Mr. Bushing.

No need to get your panties in a bunch.

Chris

 

[yashooa]

I guess you are strong enough to emulate what even a small bump will do to a suspension in an instant when it is under load and the car is moving. I guess I'll believe it when I see you bend a swaybar by hand torsionally. Newf's point is that you wont be able to replicate it by hand until it becomes VERY worn ie to the point where the bushings are SO WORN they are ready to fall off.

Either way, I thought it was my sub, my spare, and my shock for about a month before I read about it on here. And it was none of them. It was Mr. Bushing.

No need to get your panties in a bunch.

Chris

Well according to half the people on here they act as if the bar is about to ram itself through the trunk. Some have even gone as far as to state that the bar was slopping around in the mount.
So far all I have is a bunch of people who are making total guesses at what a problem might be because they hear a noise.
My suspension is for all intents and purposes is in perfect working order. I do not live in the land of the great White pinko where supposedly the cold weather causes some magic snow gremlins to come and throw the sway bar up and down.
I only hear a noise when I drive slowly over "large" irregular dips. So let me see if you drive a fairly stiffly suspended car over some irregular pavement and suppsoedly hear your rear suspension make a slight noise then that is somehow out of the ordinary? MAZDA! YOU BASTARDS! YOU KILLED MY SWAYBAR BUSHINGS!
Yes it's the harbringer of impendending automotive doom.
On this car I drive it is most defintely way way too high to be the sway bar bushings. Unless of course I have some magic swaybar that relocates itself by the power of the Supension fairy into my trunk mounted sub enclosure. Yes that's it the fairy must have been an extra no cost option I wasn't aware of.
(upyours)

 

[girth]

Easy Yashooa. Newf was just trying to help you out with more detail on the clunk. Remember that you didn't have any hesitation for the longest time, then later you finally had "pulsating" power delivery.....point being that what you may not have now doesn't mean you'll never get it in the future. I would be willing to wager that you'll eventually have the "classic" clunk sometime before your warrenty is gone. I have no idea why everyone doesn't get it in the same amount of time, but my suspension is exactly like yours and our roads and driving style can't be that different. Remember that the hand you cut off today could have been the one that was buttering your bread a year from now.

And before you ask, yes my pussy hurts.

 

[yashooa]

Easy Yashooa. Newf was just trying to help you out with more detail on the clunk. Remember that you didn't have any hesitation for the longest time, then later you finally had "pulsating" power delivery.....point being that what you may not have now doesn't mean you'll never get it in the future. I would be willing to wager that you'll eventually have the "classic" clunk sometime before your warrenty is gone. I have no idea why everyone doesn't get it in the same amount of time, but my suspension is exactly like yours and our roads and driving style can't be that different. Remember that the hand you cut off today could have been the one that was buttering your bread a year from now.

And before you ask, yes my pussy hurts.

Hey Newf is cool ...
hehehe Ah sorry to here about your coochie maybe some ice and TLC will fix that right up.
I just have heard so many varying reports on the clunk that it would seem it ranges from every where from barely noticeable to , "where the **** is my swaybar at?"
Surely no one would take the whole Swaybar fairy thing seriously. heheheh
I have the 75000 mile warranty so if it does ever clunk I'll get the whole lube and rubber replacement therapy.