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So, here's the story. I developed a groan / creak in my passenger's front suspension that appeared mysteriously and disappeared as quickly as it came. The history:
Friday, drove the car to and from work. All normal. Did not take the car out that night as it needed gas.
Saturday: pulled the car out for a thorough bath. Went out Saturday evening to put gas in it and run errands and I'm starting to wonder what that strange noise is. We had the windows up and the A/C on, so it was largely inaudible, but I turned off the radio and listened. Sure enough, there was a fairly loud groan / creak coming from someplace in the front end. It was loud enough for the wife to say, "yeah, what is THAT?"
Got the car home and did the old "suspension bounce test" on both sides of the front end. The passenger side creaked horribly on pushing it down, sounded like something was binding. Or worse like the wheel was loose (I checked, it wasn't).
Sunday morning: walk out to the garage to get the paper and bounce the front end again: nothing.
Monday: to work in the pouring rain, listening, still quiet.
'04 V70R.
82k miles.
End links are stock, but were replaced around 50k miles or so (can't remember exactly when). Spring seats were replaced at the same time.
Thoughts?
Friday, drove the car to and from work. All normal. Did not take the car out that night as it needed gas.
Saturday: pulled the car out for a thorough bath. Went out Saturday evening to put gas in it and run errands and I'm starting to wonder what that strange noise is. We had the windows up and the A/C on, so it was largely inaudible, but I turned off the radio and listened. Sure enough, there was a fairly loud groan / creak coming from someplace in the front end. It was loud enough for the wife to say, "yeah, what is THAT?"

Got the car home and did the old "suspension bounce test" on both sides of the front end. The passenger side creaked horribly on pushing it down, sounded like something was binding. Or worse like the wheel was loose (I checked, it wasn't).
Sunday morning: walk out to the garage to get the paper and bounce the front end again: nothing.
Monday: to work in the pouring rain, listening, still quiet.

'04 V70R.
82k miles.
End links are stock, but were replaced around 50k miles or so (can't remember exactly when). Spring seats were replaced at the same time.
Thoughts?