Subtle Clunking

[Thamac15]

Member FreedomTransAm sent me a message yesterday stating the below. Haven't made an appt yet for mine, was going to wait till 1k miles before going since the manual states there can be abnormal driving experiences during the first 1k. My local dealer's service department is one of those "we couldn't duplicate it" nearly every single time you take it in for something. Even when you take them on a drive, they'll say "i don't hear anything". Figured they would do the same with the clunk.


Yesterday at 4:15 PM
"Very annoying but now it's fixed. Dealer replaced sway bar links and noise is gone"

 

[smurfslayer]

I cry every morning driving my 21 to work, if only I could trade up to a 23 right now

Driving a clunky Raptor > being in some peasant car.

 

[NJ2020]

Called my dealer but I’m just going to wait for my oil change to get it looked at - hopefully enough people will bring theirs in to get a nice TSB out there.

 

[tabvette]

Member FreedomTransAm sent me a message yesterday stating the below. Haven't made an appt yet for mine, was going to wait till 1k miles before going since the manual states there can be abnormal driving experiences during the first 1k. My local dealer's service department is one of those "we couldn't duplicate it" nearly every single time you take it in for something. Even when you take them on a drive, they'll say "i don't hear anything". Figured they would do the same with the clunk.


Yesterday at 4:15 PM
"Very annoying but now it's fixed. Dealer replaced sway bar links and noise is gone

Member FreedomTransAm sent me a message yesterday stating the below. Haven't made an appt yet for mine, was going to wait till 1k miles before going since the manual states there can be abnormal driving experiences during the first 1k. My local dealer's service department is one of those "we couldn't duplicate it" nearly every single time you take it in for something. Even when you take them on a drive, they'll say "i don't hear anything". Figured they would do the same with the clunk.


Yesterday at 4:15 PM
"Very annoying but now it's fixed. Dealer replaced sway bar links and noise is gone"

Glad to hear its fixed. Now we have a point for dealers to look at

 

[riv]

there is a tsb for the heat shields but that did not fix it, I asked about the sway bar links and I was told they are solid.

 

[JasonSTL]

Mine does this too. There’s a road that I drive down at 35 mph and it sounds like something in the front suspension is loose and rattling. Very annoying. Hope others get a fix figured out.

 

[riv]

I'm pretty sure Ford has someone reading this forum, so the more we post about it the better the odds are that we get a fix

 

[trentp]

Out of curiosity is anyone having the clunking issue on a 37 package? My truck is a 35 and is clunking, a buddy has a 37 and doesn’t have the issue. I saw another post mentioning their dealer said it was the shocks which makes me wonder if this is unique to the 35in version and the shocks that come on 35s.

 

[V8 Goat]

Mine does this too. There’s a road that I drive down at 35 mph and it sounds like something in the front suspension is loose and rattling. Very annoying. Hope others get a fix figured out.

This is pretty much exactly what my truck does - and it's pretty annoying because it's the road in my neighborhood. So I get to experience this for 2 miles every morning and evening. For the record, I am driving between 25-30mph when I experience this...

Oh, and I have 3,000 miles on mine now, so I am well beyond the 1,000 mile "abnormal driving experiences"...

 

[Jeff-Ohio]

Feels like the suspension is doing it on rebound mine only has 300 miles so far. Just bought

Maybe the shocks just need to dampen the rebound a little more. I once had a similar issue on a side-by-side when I put firmer springs on it.