Aaron - The first place that I would look would be the rubber bushings that connect the front sway bar to the front lower control arms. The bushings are known to deteriorate, which lets the sway bar thump and rattle against the lower control arms. The stock rubber bushings are relatively cheap (under $5 each) so they are not too painful to replace. The major symptoms that I found when my bushings failed were lack of control during heavy braking ... the car twitched side-to-side, and also a "twitchy feeling" at highway speeds, caused by caster variations in the front wheels. These bushings hold the lower control arms (LCA's) in position (forward and aft), and when they allow movement, the caster is contantly varying. You can access the rearmost bushings by removing the nuts that thread onto the ends of the sway bar where it pokes through the LCA's. The forward pair of bushings can be viewed after you remove the front sway bar. Check those out, and let us know what you find. Toby Peterson VIN 2248 Winged1 -- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "aaron_t_graham" <aaron_t_graham@xxxx> wrote: > My suspension has been making thumping and "boingy" noises in the > front (mostly driver's side, I believe) for a couple of months now. > I'm trying to determine what exactly is causing the noise and how I > can fix it. > > The noise most often happens when I stop hard. However, there is a > spot in the road near where I live that dips down just a little bit > right before a stop sign (so I'm always slowing down at that point), > and it almost always makes a noise there, no matter how slow/fast I'm > going/stopping. The suspension doesn't seem to like that spot very > much.