My car hates me!!

[portny33]

For the past month I have had this horrible creaking/ghostly noise coming from the rear driver side wheel well. I had it to my mechanic 2 times. 1st time just to check all the bushing and suspension. Then week later my wheel bearing went on the driver side wheel. So I took it back and had him install the wheel bearing. I also asked him to check again for the nosie and this time I asked him to look at the spring and shock. I picked it up and he said nothing was wrong.

So today was fed up with the noise and decided to check for myself. What was the first thing I saw the spring rubbing on the shock. Then after looking around I found my spring is totally cracked at the bottom. So now I am pissed at my mechanic and probably wont go back to him. He had to have seen that replacing the wheel bearing. Pictures below of the damage!!!! Just needed to blow off some steam. Going to try to look for a stock sport suspension.

Anybody lookin to dump a stock sport or non-sport suspension let me know. If it is non-sport just looking for 2 springs.


Broken Spring:

[NoNonsense]

Unfortunately that is a very common problem on the B5 rear. Bummer your mechanic couldn't find it...but that is a tricky one. Hopefully you didn't pay him to diagnose a problem he couldn't find!

[390wheel]

For the past month I have had this horrible creaking/ghostly noise coming from the rear driver side wheel well. I had it to my mechanic 2 times. 1st time just to check all the bushing and suspension. Then week later my wheel bearing went on the driver side wheel. So I took it back and had him install the wheel bearing. I also asked him to check again for the nosie and this time I asked him to look at the spring and shock. I picked it up and he said nothing was wrong.

So today was fed up with the noise and decided to check for myself. What was the first thing I saw the spring rubbing on the shock. Then after looking around I found my spring is totally cracked at the bottom. So now I am pissed at my mechanic and probably wont go back to him. He had to have seen that replacing the wheel bearing. Pictures below of the damage!!!! Just needed to blow off some steam. Going to try to look for a stock sport suspension.

Anybody lookin to dump a stock sport or non-sport suspension let me know. If it is non-sport just looking for 2 springs.


Broken Spring:

i know the spring is about 100$ at the dealer.

[Revolution02]

wow!! how the hell could you miss that? that hella sucks man!

But dont blame your car some mechanics just suck and in some cases the mechanic dosent tell you what is wrong with your car just so you can come back and spend more money when the situation gets worse.

[t1demont1]

Ive got sport suspension sitting around. You want it?

[sixfiveoh]

I have sport springs for a FWD laying around. If you find out if they work or not you can have them for pretty cheap.

[portny33]

Ive got sport suspension sitting around. You want it?

Yeah that would be great do you just have the springs or do you have the shocks to?? How much you lookin to get?

Can I run sport springs with the non-sport shocks???

[quattro16]

Wait what is all that white stuff sprayed all over the spring. Please don't tell me the mechanic sprayed silicon on it for the noise!!!!!

[portny33]

Wait what is all that white stuff sprayed all over the spring. Please don't tell me the mechanic sprayed silicon on it for the noise!!!!!

No...I was soo sick of the sound I decided to through some white lithium grease on it. I know it isn't the best solution but the noise is soo dam irratating.

Will a 97 sport suspension fit on a 2000????

[DLC1.8T]

Had the same thing happen last fall. I even tried the grease trick while I waited for a new spring.

I'm not sure about the sport suspension but I noticed that ecs tuning lists a different part# for the shocks on early B5's: http://www.ecstuning.com/stage/edpd/...ry=Performance

[portny33]

Had the same thing happen last fall. I even tried the grease trick while I waited for a new spring.

I'm not sure about the sport suspension but I noticed that ecs tuning lists a different part# for the shocks on early B5's: http://www.ecstuning.com/stage/edpd/...ry=Performance

What numbers in my VIN# tell me between 06/00 and 07/00????

[DLC1.8T]

There should be a build date on the sticker in the drivers door jam.

[Toyotatech]

I have the hole sport suspention if you need it. 1999.5 1.8qt