I know it's difficult to sentence things without seeing/hearing them, but I am wondering if my rear beam is seized - it seems to bang whenever I go over a reasonable bump in the road. Speed humps are especially noticeable.

It feels like the wheel can't return to the ground fast enough? Hence me wondering if something has seized up in the beam - the car doesn't get a lot of use, being a second car (maybe 3,000 miles max per year).

I thought it was stuff in the boot, but it still does it now with the boot completely empty

Is there something obvious I can look for with the beam still on the car, or must I remove it to be able to condemn it?

Any help gratefully received.

Now you've got me - front beam?

Or do you mean the front mounts of the rear beam

Beam off job to check, or not?

Brilliant - thanks for that.

It would also explain why the car has started "creaking" whenever I get in or out with it parked nose-down a slope - it used to do this before I replaced the rear discs, and then stopped once I did those so assumed it was them. But it's started doing it again now, and the rear discs are fine, so maybe it's these mounts.

Thanks again for the replies.