You might look at the brake caliper on the front passenger side wheel. I had a slight clunking (maybe a clinking noise though) that was caused by one of the carrier bolts not allowing the caliper to full retract (or was it fully engage?). Basically, this caused the caliper to rock/clunk as it was shifting over the spot it was binding everytime I hit a bump. The fix was pretty easy. I removed the caliper and popped out the guide bolt on which the caliper was binding. Here I found a very small amount of surface corrosion (no pitting and no big fluffy piles of rust just a very fine sandpapery like coating). I gently sanded this down with emeory paper til there was no more corrosion and lightly greased the bolt with moly grease as was specified in the Bentley I believe - not enough to get squeezed out when replacing the guide bolt into the brake carrier. I then replaced the little boot on the end of the bolt which was torn and put the caliper back on. No more noise and its been 25k+ miles... dave |
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