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Question posted by dmt113112 on April 15th, 2013

The Raer End Has Made Squaking When You Turn In A Out Of The Drive Way No Grindi

it drive great no noise going down the road if you take off hard works good its just when you go slow and turnig

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Answer #1: Posted by TexasDeviL on April 15th, 2013 6:15 PM

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Its hard to say without seeing the car really but I can offer two educated guesses that are pretty easy to check. You may have a bad strut in the rear. Push down on each corner of the car. It should just come back up with no bouncing. The other thing I would say is a posibility could be that one or more bushing on the rear sway bar is worn out and crumbling/crumbled away. You can look and see what the condition of the bushings are. They are just urathane sleeves around the swaybar to cushion the mounts. That would make a metal on metal squeel when the weight shifts from side to side. (such as taking off from or slowing down to turn sharply into or out of a driveway.) Like i said those are just my best guesses based on the question but they are possible and easy to check.

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