So yesterday I fitted my 24mm RARB to the Cupra. Tightened up the D bushes with the clamp nice and tight, tightened up the drop links. Now, I did the drop links whilst her backside was still up in the air - I just used the jack to push the hub upwards and line things up, but obviously had to do one side at a time.
I took her out staright away and all felt fine, no noises and nothing fell apart - job was a good one. So i'm coming home and I go over a speed bump outside a school, you know, one of those raised zebra crossing things. Hear a slight 'clunk' as the back went up and off it. I didn't worry too much.
So gets up this morning and takes the little one to school - village school, up some country roads. I'm hearing constant clunking from the back end. I goes to work and parked up in the local multi storey, as i'm navigating my way up i'm hearing the clunks every time i hit a ramp. So I called APS where I got the bar from and chatted with Ed, he reckons I put the D bush brackets on to tight and the bar isn't rotating as it should, thus putting pressure on the drop links and causing the noise.
I gets home tonight, jacked her back up and loosened the brackets and tightened them back up to a max 30nm.
Still getting the same flipping noise when driving casually
Now if I put her under load in a corner I hear nothing, drive steady in a straight line or around a bend and 'clunk, clunk-flipping-clunk'.
Have I simply cream crackered the drop links???
