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So, there are five things that you can check when your car starts knocking, like suspension, but
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you want to make sure that this is not something else that you can fix on your own. And the first
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thing to check is whether something is knocking inside your trunk. This is a very common thing,
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like you can have some metal thing lying here and knocking, and you will think that this
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is the rear suspension. You should just unload your trunk, so take everything out of your trunk,
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and then you will make sure that there is not some tool or something like that.
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Then, another thing you can check is the spare wheel well. In this case, there are a lot of
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things that can make these sounds that remind you of some problems with the suspension. For example,
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this may be a jack, or this may be the spare wheel that jumps in this well when you drive,
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or this may be some tool. Or, I had this problem, when my tow rope was just bumping on the wheel and
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making this sound, and I thought, my God, it's some suspension problem. So check this. Again,
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the best thing you can do is to unload this place and take the spare wheel out,
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take this jack out, take everything out and drive, and check if this knocking disappears.
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Also, check this thing like the curtain that covers your trunk, you may have knocking sounds
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here or it may knock in the places where it holds on the interior parts of the car. Also,
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one more thing that can make all kinds of bad noises is the latch of your hatch door.
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So this latch closes on this thing. It's metal, and when it's not adjusted properly,
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you will hear all kinds of noises when you're going on uneven road. So when your car sways a
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little, you will hear some noises, some bumps like suspension and that's not really easy to locate.
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So sometimes people change suspension parts before they understand that this is a hatch door latch.
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One more thing, and it's a very common thing,
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is the latch of the rear seat. So your rear seat in pretty much any car will have this
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latch that holds it in place, and I will now show you in my Honda, what it makes.
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So this sound, if you hear this sound when you drive,
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this is 100% the problem with the latch. And what happens,
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you can see here is the latch itself, and here is the thing that makes the sound. What you can do,
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you can wrap the thing in something soft, and you will not hear this sound for some time.
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And there is the fifth thing that you should consider, it's your exhaust pipe. The exhaust pipe
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in every car hangs on special rubber mounts. These mounts can tear, these mounts can fall off, and
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your exhaust pipe will change its position, and it will bump over the body of your car or also over
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the engine protection plate. This is a very common thing that you should check before you start
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repairing your suspension. Check if your exhaust pipe doesn't touch anything in your vehicle.
