Turbojamie

I know noises are hard to diagnose and my car has about 112km on it or around 70k miles. I noticed this morning for the first time when I stopped hard at a railway track like when you brake and stop abruptly. When the car transferred forward before settling again in the rear I had a thud. I tested this again dropping my little guy off at the baby sitters.

I would guess engine mounts but is there any way to check them before just replacing them?

Zeus993

Check under the seat. I had a weird thunk in a 997.1 and the mechanic found a golf ball rolling around under the passenger seat. Simple fix. Hope it's something like that...

Turbojamie

How cool would that be! The previous owners was a golfer!

Zeus993

I goch yer attention now, right?

pontifex4

Is it just one thud, or several for every stop? Engine mounts wouldn't make it behave like that, and your car would likely be shaking at idle if the mounts were bad. Are your back seats folded down? If not, try that while you look around the interior as Zeus says. If I had to guess any single component, it would be a ball joint or swaybar link.

Turbojamie

I'm going to put it on the hoist and have a look over it. Then I should have a better idea. It seems to come from the passenger side seat area but its so hard to tell.

I ordered a set of motor mounts from my local parts runner for $100 each and I will change them as a preventative thing anyways with the mileage on the car and the exhaust sagging its a starting point.

It appears from looking at online pics my car has been lowered the previous owner was clueless so it could be a result of many things. Once I am in the air I will have a good idea.

crashclint

Hopefully it is an easy fix.

Turbojamie

Your a genius I dug into this the other night. Previous owner had a full water bottle thumping around.