Re: suspension noises -Reply

["Chris Warren" <tofer@foxinternet.net>]

Hey you know what....My '97 GT made a noise something kinda' like
that....it was the right front hub----IT WAS LOOSE----at 9K miles....check
in to it.
Tofer

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> From: Vojin Janjic <vjanjic@mail.state.tn.us>
> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject: suspension noises -Reply
> Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 10:27 AM
> 
> >Here's what happens: whenever I in my '95 GLX (approx. 49k miles) hit
> >a large pothole (and don't tell me not to hit any potholes, all you
> >wisenheimers), I hear a terrible crash from the passenger-side front
> >wheel area
> 
> I remember the sound you are describing.  On my 95 GLX, it came from
> the rear passenger side wheel.  The service was never able to
> reproduce it or diagnose a problem (surprise, surprise!).  Mine did not
> have squeaking, but few loaners I drove in the past squeaked like crazy
> (passenger-side front wheel area).
> 
> >Also, I read somewhere that VW tweaked the factory GLX
> >suspensions in  '96 to eliminate some of the float in the '94 and '95
> >GLXes. Truth or fiction? Thanks, y'all.
> 
> VW replaced my 95 GLX with a 96 model (which has been, to most part,
> PERFECT so far - 36K), so I can judge the difference first-hand.  I don't
> know exactly what they did to 96 model, but there is noticeably less
> body roll and floating.  Suspension could be even stiffer, as far as I am
> concerned, but that may be a matter of taste.
> 
> Vojin