When driving over an uneven surface there seems to be an audible clunk on the drivers side, only in deep potholes, not in the passenger side (as best as I can tell). Is this a known issue? Has anyone successfully diagnosed it? I plan on bringing it up at the 60 day mark.
Front End Clunk
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Didn't have time to get enough data to pinpoint noise and after that i have been forced to sell and go with different vehicles as my mules on the wheels.
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If you can reproduce easily....make sure you take technician and Service department foreman for ride and point them in direction where noise is coming when driving. So two people cannot come with excuses there is nothing wrong with front suspension. When i had my i didn't have enough time to trace my clunk ...but in my was front drivers side noise.
Stabilizer bar links went…
Dealer Quirk VW in Braintree.
I came in the cold morning with my front end noise, 20K service and windshield washer harness recall. Service adviser said we need to thaw you car to get rid of all the snow and ice to diagnose the front end noise? WTF? You don’t have a power washer to blow off the snow from the car?? I said I hear it all the time regardless odd ice or no ice on the car… she said she will talk to the foreman. Foreman shows up in about 30 minutes and starts with “You have wrong size rear tires, it throws off the computer because wrong circumference. Do you have your other tires” I respond that in my opinion the size of the rear wheels has nothing to do with the noise in the front end. She replies that VW wants correct size tires for proper noise diagnosis (WTF???) I said I don’t believe that, she threatened to stop repairing the car (WTF again) I say she can’t do that. I offer to go on the ride with her technician to help reproduce the noise she says they’ll do it first and then if they can’t they will take me on the ride….She leaves.
Later service advisers shows up telling me it was stabilizer bar links and makes a comment “It was interesting one”…..
WTF?????? Why dealers think all the customer are idiots?????
Check my ID.4 accessories at YuriKAccessories | Etsy
Dealer Quirk VW in Braintree.
I came in the cold morning with my front end noise, 20K service and windshield washer harness recall. Service adviser said we need to thaw you car to get rid of all the snow and ice to diagnose the front end noise? WTF? You don’t have a power washer to blow off the snow from the car?? I said I hear it all the time regardless odd ice or no ice on the car… she said she will talk to the foreman. Foreman shows up in about 30 minutes and starts with “You have wrong size rear tires, it throws off the computer because wrong circumference. Do you have your other tires” I respond that in my opinion the size of the rear wheels has nothing to do with the noise in the front end. She replies that VW wants correct size tires for proper noise diagnosis (WTF???) I said I don’t believe that, she threatened to stop repairing the car (WTF again) I say she can’t do that. I offer to go on the ride with her technician to help reproduce the noise she says they’ll do it first and then if they can’t they will take me on the ride….She leaves.
Later service advisers shows up telling me it was stabilizer bar links and makes a comment “It was interesting one”…..
WTF?????? Why dealers think all the customer are idiots?????
Check my ID.4 accessories at YuriKAccessories | Etsy
mine is also clunking from the driver's side front.
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I have had it from new, you can hear it in the car as if a module is loose under the hood. With windows open to listen carefully my car clunks (more like a metallic noise as if a drain cover was loose slightly) only really on holes in road at below 30 mph, and it seems to be front and back wheels when they go over the holes. I have also had all wheels off, checked everything, and there is nothing loose anywhere.
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I've also been having a knocking/rattling noise that sounds like it's coming from the front driver's side wheel well when driving over bumps. Just took it in to the dealer, who said it was the "sway bar linkage" I believe (which was a warranty item and will be replaced at no charge.) I'll update with the definitive part once I talk to them again. Might be the same thing @madyury had to have replaced.
I wonder if this is due to the fact that the sway bar links are plastic and not metal. I personally have never seen a plastic end link before the id4. It seems durable. Maybe being plastic it has a little more flex and helps ride comfort? I thought “hey, don’t have to worry about rust, hopefully it is durable.” Maybe not?
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I wouldn’t bet on it being the end link.
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This new service bulletin may be relevant for some: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2022/MC-10212131-0001.pdf
It sounds somewhat plausible for some noise I’ve been experiencing. I need to get out to the particular spot it reliably reproduces and experiment with braking while traversing it.
It sounds somewhat plausible for some noise I’ve been experiencing. I need to get out to the particular spot it reliably reproduces and experiment with braking while traversing it.
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Super glad it got fixed for you. Thanks for following up.
Sure sounds like an end link to me. Maybe I need to look again but you have: rollbar (held in to the frame by brackets) that attaches to the suspension using end links that are bolted on to the roll bar on one end and the control arm/suspension on the other end. Not many parts involved that can go bad except the end links.
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I got my new ID.4 last Friday. Driving off the lot, noticed a metallic rattle from the front on rough road surfaces (particularly from the driver side). After finding the TSB above, I tested the theory that this was it by driving over rough road between 20-40mph with the brakes lightly applied (I know that's regen but I'm also thinking it snugs up the brakes and applies some pressure if the brakes were needed). With braking applied, the rattle stopped.
So, off to the dealer with the TSB in hand. Took them about 20 minutes to verify and get me out the door with parts ordered. Parts took a day to come in and had the caliper clips replaced today. I'm now noise free....
Cheers,
John
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I've joined the front end clunk club. I've got a '21 FE that started clunking around 25k miles. I was assured by the dealer that it wasn't dangerous. They've ordered the sway bars and I hope/expect based on this helpful thread that it'll resolve it. I live in Buffalo which has really rough roads- not sure if that wore them out faster, but hopefully its not a regular maintenance item.
I was experiencing a rattling noise from the front end, it was noticeable on rough roads. Mentioned it at 20k service and they found that the sway bar links (1EA 411 315 C) were loose and rattling. Replaced driver side, did road test and then replaced passenger side. I thought it was the hood prop rod rattling, guess I was wrong.
my FE has this front end rattle, started recently. Now at 24K miles. The "inspection in 1200 miles" (now 1100) notice appeared last week too. Was hoping that I'd get the "come get the software & battery" call by now...
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I find that the front brake pads clank around between the calipers and the rotors in sharp bumps. Had the same issue on my 07 Touareg V8 and it had 2 vibration dampers per brake pad, 4 per wheel to deal with this issue. All 4 sets of pads rattled around in my new 986 Boxster and was annoying at times with the top down on rougher pavement. ID4 is so quiet, noise that telegraphs through the body is heard far easier than an over the engine and vibration in an ICE car.
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This would be consistent with something we've noticed whereby the ID.4 sounds like it has gone over a loose manhole cover on certain sharp jounces. Right now, we're just “monitoring” this to see how it goes.
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