ARRRGGHHH my car!!

[prochobo 10+ year member]

Alright, new developments, hopefully this will give further insight to my problems.

I checked the nuts and 1 of em was loose enough to take off by hand, the other 3 were really easy to do with a wrench. I tightened all 4 of em and went for a drive.

The knocking noise only occurs when my foot is off the gas. When I'm accelerating, everything is fine, but when I take my foot off the gas, there's a loud THUNK followed by lots of mini-thunks until I accelerate some more. I need to get past about 1.5k rpm before the thunking goes away.

When I got home, I checked the nuts again. This time, I could easily remove 3 of them by hand! I didn't actually take them off though. I then tightened them and took another ride. Same thing happened!

 

[xnewmorningx]

sounds like your cv joint. does it make it in turns also? i have a honda civic and thats normally the sound they make when they are going

 

[prochobo 10+ year member]

Yes, it kinda does when I turn, but it's not as noticeable. I'm bummed and happy that it's just the CV joint. The boot looks fine too. I can get it fixed for free, but I have orientation tomorrow!!!

 

[MadAudio 10+ year member]

so i was right hehe first try buying some new lugs see if the old ones are just stripped if not then the threads on the bolts have gone bad have them replaced atleast its a start but there might have been some damamge done with the loose tire.

 

[prochobo 10+ year member]

so i was right hehe first try buying some new lugs see if the old ones are just stripped if not then the threads on the bolts have gone bad have them replaced atleast its a start but there might have been some damamge done with the loose tire.

Good job! It turns out the lugs were bad I guess. THey put some new ones on and I'm fine now.