Hi DickieG,DickieG wrote:If you hear a rattle at the front end which sounds like a worn droplink gently pull up the handbrake enough to just tension the calipers as the car negotiates corrugations in the road surface, if the noise stops you have three options, put up with the noise, try "loading" the caliper as you tighten it or buy/fit the clips below.xantia_v6 wrote:The brakes fitted to V6s and HDI 110s have a poor design that makes the pads rattle loudly over rough surfaces, making the ride sound much worse than it is. There was a factory modification to adding some spring clips to quieten them down. Search around here and you should find some photos of the clips.
I think you're right about this noise being a rattly calliper. In the time since your original post about it, both drop-links and track rod ends have been replaced, and while they have made improvements in their own ways the main intermittent rattle/clatter on rough surfaces is still there at the front left. So unless its the lower balljoint it must be the calliper, everything else has been eliminated.
While doing jobs in the area I noticed if I grasp the left calliper it rocks left and right with significant slack while the right hand one doesn't, so I think this confirms it as the culprit. What's the part number for these ? Is it that number on the bag ? I can't afford any non essential items this month no matter how cheap, but I'll order some next month if I've got the part number.
Cheers,
Simon
The pagid cable does not have enough "throw" making it impossible to even hitch it over the balancer. The First Line cable looks like a cable off a completely different car and doesn't even have the same fittings or even any adjustment locknuts!