Knocking/rattling in the front end.

You could also look for floor cracks under your feet where the firewall and the floor meet, this can crack causing a 'CLUNK' sound.

radius arm bushes,panhard bushes etc mine was a mix of loose drop box and bushes once i got under and had a look

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Originally Posted by 97_gq_lwb

I occasionally here the body mount under the drivers side somewhere making a noise worse when it is raining for some strange reason.

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Not strange at all. Mine has always done it when it's wet. Body mounts and all bushes were fine.
Discovered it was the bottom of the coils on the spring perch making the noise but only over bumps when it's wet. Nothing to worry about. Factory coils had thin insulators there originally to stop the knocking.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Pablo76

Hey Mate, If you dont have any luck with your rubbers and hub, ive had what you described to a tea, i replaced evry rubber in mine and turned out to be the body mount, mine came on braking, and really noticable in low speed turns, car parks etc. Hope this helps.

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This is exactly the symptoms mine has atm, I'm doing the body mounts this weekend so I'll let you all know if it fixes the problem!

PS. I had the pittman arm bushes, swaybar bushes and rod ends replaced a few weeks ago and it didn't stop the noise.

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Originally Posted by bordertech

Not strange at all. Mine has always done it when it's wet. Body mounts and all bushes were fine.
Discovered it was the bottom of the coils on the spring perch making the noise but only over bumps when it's wet. Nothing to worry about. Factory coils had thin insulators there originally to stop the knocking.

Cheers

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I had also thought of this! So if the body mounts don't stop the noise, I'm going to try some 3-5mm insertion rubber under the coils.