rattling like a bunch of old tin cans

[Malc]

these past 4 weeks since returning from Ireland I've been getting the above when going over  specific brick ramped road sleeping policemen in Faversham ......  never happened before and never happens on tarmaced bumps and ramps . ..........  weird i thought

down to my indie today and it's a loose heat shield cover over a rear exhaust box .... all 6 fixings had finally worn out at 214k miles and it had just dropped on to the box ............  it just lifted off and in his skip now ....................... over engineered and not being replaced as not necessary ....  silence returns 😊

He says the exhaust is still like new and will no doubt outlast the car ................. even tho that pesky mild steel bit he welds up every few years or so

BUT brought forward ( ordering the parts now ) the replacement of the n/s rear UCA  ( Advisory on last MOT ) as the new tyre that side is just showing a slight sign of undue comparative wear ........... and also the front short drop link bars ?  ( about 8 inches long on each side ? ) as they are beginning to show / feel wear although not a MOT problem yet

................... his 6 ft crowbar is marvellous at distinguishing undue wear on the suspension stuff 

Malc

[The-Acre]

3 hours ago, Malc said:

these past 4 weeks since returning from Ireland I've been getting the above when going over  specific brick ramped road sleeping policemen in Faversham ......  never happened before and never happens on tarmaced bumps and ramps . ..........  weird i thought

down to my indie today and it's a loose heat shield cover over a rear exhaust box .... all 6 fixings had finally worn out at 214k miles and it had just dropped on to the box ............  it just lifted off and in his skip now ....................... over engineered and not being replaced as not necessary ....  silence returns 😊

He says the exhaust is still like new and will no doubt outlast the car ................. even tho that pesky mild steel bit he welds up every few years or so

BUT brought forward ( ordering the parts now ) the replacement of the n/s rear UCA  ( Advisory on last MOT ) as the new tyre that side is just showing a slight sign of undue comparative wear ........... and also the front short drop link bars ?  ( about 8 inches long on each side ? ) as they are beginning to show / feel wear although not a MOT problem yet

................... his 6 ft crowbar is marvellous at distinguishing undue wear on the suspension stuff 

Malc

If that was any other make of car it would be just a memory by now, what an amazing piece of engineering! Never to be repeated I'm guessing.

[Cotswold Pete]

I have a rattle, ever since handbrake cables replaced.

Cannot trace it so far,but wonder if it is the heat shield.

Also had rear UCAs replaced about 2 years ago, does not seem to make any difference to handling, and I was not suffering un-even wear, but got picked up in MOT, so had them done.

Having front disks/pads/shims etc replaced next week to hopefully cure brake snatching and a bit of rumble from pads.  Been quoted £355 all fitted (OEM parts), seems like a reasonale price compared to what ATS charge me 4 years ago just to replace rear pads.

Slowly working on getting the LS back to running as smooth as one can get a 200K miles motor running.