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[chrisgixer]

If the back of the car feels crashy and really harsh over bumps and broken road surfaces, and you have a Halfords multi piece socket set in the boot like the 150/175/200 piece set we use on here and it's placed flat directly on the carpeted boot floor...

...remove it. You'll find you don't need to lower the tyre pressures, replace shocks, look for broken springs or... Fix anything at all really. 

Ffs

[chrisgixer]

I suppose same applies for any heavy object of similar weight left un padded or secured on the boot floor.

[78bex]

Will driving swmbo & her leggy twin & her other younger sister   & her boyfriend .
not forgetting all the luggage in the boot & a full tank have the same effect
Forgot the mad JR terrior  who insists on struggling thru the tiny arm rest hatch into the boot. He`s lost it he has    Basically a car load of women plus a lad with acne who doesn`t say much

I`m hoping this constitutes a gross overload situation & I can stay at home with the dog    

[Diamond Black Geezer]

I currently have the same issue, Mr Gixer, very much knocking, and 'crashy'.. in the boot I currently have

Axle stand
Trolley jack, box, with metal folding chocks, some lumps of wood packing, all in blow-moulded box
Large sheet of cardboard
Breaker Bar
Metal toolbox, full of Whitworth (yes) spanners, old screwdrivers, various screws, nuts, and other random scrapyard finds
My spare Steering Idler
Haynes Manual
Torque Wrench in plastic case
Toolroll full of my spanners, long ratchet, long 3/8 extension


...oh and my Halfords 170 piece socket set.


now you come to mention it, it may be this is the cause of my noises, too! 

[Nick W]

One of the snags of a large car is that there is plenty of room for junk. So you never remove it. Junk is heavy, and noisy.

Don't just empty the boot, but do the interior too. I found six micro-USB charger leads stashed in various door pockets; it seems they breed there.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

 

Agreed. I got a sort of thin mini-door pocket from a Corsa from the scrappy. It just fits inside the door pocket of the Omega (PFL, can't say for FL) this is now a removable bin, so all receipts, random screw, bit of fluff, loose change or whatever gets chucked in there and can periodically be removed, rather than the slightly more awkward method of taking the door card off and giving it an upside-down shake out. 


...I hated doing that once every week! 

[Terbs]

I currently have the same issue, Mr Gixer, very much knocking, and 'crashy'.. in the boot I currently have

Axle stand
Trolley jack, box, with metal folding chocks, some lumps of wood packing, all in blow-moulded box
Large sheet of cardboard
Breaker Bar
Metal toolbox, full of Whitworth (yes) spanners, old screwdrivers, various screws, nuts, and other random scrapyard finds
My spare Steering Idler
Haynes Manual
Torque Wrench in plastic case
Toolroll full of my spanners, long ratchet, long 3/8 extension


...oh and my Halfords 170 piece socket set.


now you come to mention it, it may be this is the cause of my noises, too! 

That lot almost matches word for word what I carry. My problem is. when I switch cars, that lot switches with me !!!!!!!!!

[Webby the Bear]

If the back of the car feels crashy and really harsh over bumps and broken road surfaces, and you have a Halfords multi piece socket set in the boot like the 150/175/200 piece set we use on here and it's placed flat directly on the carpeted boot floor...

...remove it. You'll find you don't need to lower the tyre pressures, replace shocks, look for broken springs or... Fix anything at all really. 

Ffs

  farkin' donut!!!! but that did make me laugh 

[chrisgixer]

If the back of the car feels crashy and really harsh over bumps and broken road surfaces, and you have a Halfords multi piece socket set in the boot like the 150/175/200 piece set we use on here and it's placed flat directly on the carpeted boot floor...

...remove it. You'll find you don't need to lower the tyre pressures, replace shocks, look for broken springs or... Fix anything at all really. 

Ffs

  farkin' donut!!!! but that did make me laugh 

yeah, I had a "wee chuckle" myself. Now what could it be? Twonk! I thought. 

[Webby the Bear]

I think the reason its so funny is that its summat I would do 

[chrisgixer]

Sometimes it's the simplest things

[zirk]

Stupid Boy.   

Last time I drove a 3.2 Auto (normally Manuals for me), I noticed every time I braked or pulled away, I could hear the selector solenoid switching in and out (you know the sound / click you get when you have to put your foot on the brake to take it out of park).

Was driving me mad for days / weeks and couldn't workout what was going on. In the end took the car on a flat Private Road, and was stopping and starting with my head nearly scrapping the road and or my neck bent around so I could stick my ear on the inside bell housing. But I did manage to find the problem.

Turns out (cough), someone had pulled out the cigar lighter out and just left it in the ashtray, then closed it, so the ciggy lighter was making a light knocking noise as it was moving backwards and forwards during braking and pulling away.

   

[chrisgixer]

Stupid boy pike

[Diamond Black Geezer]

My girlfriend and I were round an ex-Omega owner (by that I mean, he used to own Omegas, he's not dead  ) and upon opening the back door she exclaimed 'you've a rattle in the door' - we're suspecting something come loose inside, a linkage, or something, has the check strap failed somehow? etc...

I say 'hang on' before we start panicking, I open the ashtray.. there's a random screw in there