front end suddenly hard

B-Hive · Post by **B-Hive** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 2:05 am

Hi all

Jumped into the car this morning for a brief journey only to discover that the front end had suddenly gone quite hard. Its quite firm now on the drivers side and actually quite rigid on the passenger side, almost as if something had locked up on the passenger side but is effecting both sides.

The strangest thing though, is that a bad knocking sound that I had been experiencing from the passenger side has all but gone. The spheres are relatively new and were nice and floaty just yesterday, so I cannot imagine the left front sphere has spontaneously packed up..or maybe it has..but that wouldnt explain why the knock has vanished.

Can anyone from the brains trust offer up an explanation as to why this would have happened...strut?? ...anti roll bar bearings/drop link ???... seized wishbone or balljoint ???

Thanks

kiwi · Post by **kiwi** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:10 am

My first thought is a Sphere failure and yes they can go suddenly even if new! Only once had this happen to me before with a new sphere that just went rock hard overnight.

Second Thought Height Corrector Failure, not sure how to explain that one as experiance is the HC fails the nose dont come up.

Other than that you got some pretty darn cold weather conditions which do all manner of weird things to cars, especially our highly technical ones.

I still go with the sphere at fault though.

Gibbo2286 · Post by **Gibbo2286** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:36 am

You've probably dragged the height corrector link round on the anti roll bar in the ice so that its locked in the high postion. Gibbo.

Post by **Defender110** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:24 am

Gibbo2286 wrote:You've probably dragged the height corrector link round on the anti roll bar in the ice so that its locked in the high postion. Gibbo.

That reads like the writing of experience

B-Hive · Post by **B-Hive** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:11 am

Gibbo2286 wrote:You've probably dragged the height corrector link round on the anti roll bar in the ice so that its locked in the high postion. Gibbo.

Not much ice nor arctic conditions down under this summer here in Australia!!

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:55 am

2BXORNOT2BX wrote:
Gibbo2286 wrote:You've probably dragged the height corrector link round on the anti roll bar in the ice so that its locked in the high postion. Gibbo.
Not much ice nor arctic conditions down under this summer here in Australia!!

Could it be a build up of flies?

B-Hive · Post by **B-Hive** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:08 pm

Could it be a build up of flies?

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Possibly the build up of British tourist road kills..

kiwi · Post by **kiwi** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 6:16 pm

2BXORNOT2BX wrote:Not much ice nor arctic conditions down under this summer here in Australia!!

True that you just got Antartic blasts coming up from the south pole, floods, swams of locusts, cyclones....did I miss anything

I will still go with hard sphere failure.

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 9:49 am

Do you drive on cinder tracks at all? Could be a build up of ashes...

I think I'd better up-stumps as I seem to be pontinificating on a very sticky wicket

B-Hive · Post by **B-Hive** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:47 am

I will still go with hard sphere failure.

Fixed,, swapped out the offending sides sphere and presto..

Thanks for the diagnosis..I really would not have otherwise suspected a blown sphere..

Thing is, the night b4 this happened was the first time those spheres have a had a full load of humans, so I am wondering now whether it just couldn't take the additional load and spat the dummy..

Back to floaty boaty..yay!!!