So im new to the Audi world, came recently from the BMW world. So far im loving my S4, very fun car. Unfortunately everything is foreign to me. So heres what happened.
Sunday I was in Seattle, where the roads are shit, and my car is lowered (bad combination). As i go through downtown i merge onto a street and hit a bump that i never saw coming. Impact was loud, very loud, and immediately after I heard a very loud bumping sound, kind of like a machine gun. It scared my girlfriend it was so loud. I pulled over and looked under the car as much as i could, saw nothing hanging down. Since i was only a few blocks from Clink stadium i decided to just limp it there.
After the Seahawks sh*t on the 49ers we had to get home. I have AAA so i wasn't too worried but i decided i'd have to drive it to really get a feel for whats broken anyways, so I drove it home.
Heres what i got from that;
-Car only makes the noise when im compression braking or suddenly let off the gas while in gear. It also makes the noise a bit more quietly when i back up.
-No noise when i accelerate whether it be hard acceleration or slow.
-No noise while turning.
-The noise doesnt seem to be nearly as loud anymore.
I jacked the car up an hour ago to see if anything was visibly damaged and unfortunately came up short. Some parts of the exhaust were scraped up a bit, but nothing big. Im not sure what the transmission mounts look like, and i couldn't actually find anything that looked like a transmission mount at that. There were 2 holes on the bottom of the transmission that were empty, but it doesnt look like anything was removed from them with force, the holes were still perfectly threaded.
Any inputs would be nice as i have no idea what it could be. If anyone in the Snohomish county area would be willing to assist me with this I'd be very grateful.
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