Last week I noticed the car was pulling to the right under heavy/high speed braking.
Which sort of worried me, together with an untraceable random clunking I have at time (seems to come from the right side, rear, but may well be from the front, can't really trace it)

first thought where the p-bushes, they still seem to be in good condition, but already 1.5years old and taking my ride height into account I'll probably just put new ones on...

then I noticed some twit mounted 2 diff drop-links on the car, plastic one side, metal the other side.
One of them squeals like mad when wiggling it with a crowbar, so going to get new ones too, big question here, should I get the plastic or the metal ones? (I somehow seem to remember that the plastic ones are the best choice? can anyone please confirm this?)

But when we wiggled the wheel there was a weird knocking sound, like the sound you get when a bolt is loose. You could feel a fair amount of play too, definitely not wheel bearing, but more between the whole wheelhub/brake/strutbottom and the top of the strut.
I was thinking this would be due to a knackered top mount bearing, until we noticed the piston of the damper seems to be having 'play' within the damper itself (this is hard to explain) but then again there is no oil to be found around that area I'd think a damper would lose oil when its broken...
So I'm wondering what could've caused this as I've never actually noticed anything of importance...


On the list to replace:
p-bushes
metal or plastic (?) drop-links
top mount bearings? (only the bearings and not the rubber blocks I presume?)
probably a new damper insert from KW (but I'll check what the local kw-dealer says about the issue)

anything else worth checking or renewing?

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When i replaced my droplinks i remember asking the same question. Try to get some Lemförder plastic ones. These are supposed to be better/harder than the oem ones and much better than the metal ones.
I couldn't find anyones here in luxembourg or germany, so carl aka mechrepairs was so kind to bring me some when he came to the ring.

Hope this helps