Rattle sound, please help identify!!

[EWC88]

Hey guys, I have this rattle sound that has been bothering the **** out of me and I can't figure what it could be. Sound will come from bumps you barely feel, to ones you do feel.

I recorded a video of it, you hear it mostly 28 seconds in till 35 seconds.

Don't mind the loud ****** bang you hear, ******** ****** roads..

https://youtu.be/tqjN1_qStjg

 

[usaf2006]

How loud is it? I heard it on the video, and to me it almost sounded like a body panel shaking. Sounded like thin metal, but maybe that's the video.

Can you sort of hear where it's coming from or is it hard to tell.

 

[EWC88]

Hard to tell where, I know front end but not specifically where. It's noticeable, if you were sitting in passenger seat you would hear it. If you turned radio on you can't hear but no radio you hear it.

 

[usaf2006]

Hmm I'll keep thinking

 

[EWC88]

Thanks!

I was thinking maybe new shocks but then I thought that should be a louder sound then that. What is strange, you hear it even if you don't even feel a bump. I can hit a big ass bump and I don't hear it (prob cause the loud as bang is louder) but then on the slightest feeling bump you hear this ****.

 

[Ceri]

Thanks!

I was thinking maybe new shocks but then I thought that should be a louder sound then that. What is strange, you hear it even if you don't even feel a bump. I can hit a big ass bump and I don't hear it (prob cause the loud as bang is louder) but then on the slightest feeling bump you hear this ****.

When I just listened, shock was my first guess. Shocks only absorb the little bounces. The coils/t-bars handle the big stuff. Sounds like a completely dead shock to me, but its just a guess until you get a wheel off.

 

[usaf2006]

I thought dead shocks made more of a "thump thump" sound. Hopefully you figure it out quickly!

 

[Ceri]

My guess, and thats all it is from the audio, is that the shock has lost all pressure and what we're hearing the the hardware rattling. Sounds metallic, but small. Maybe a sway bar end link, but those tend to clunk more.