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Constant clunking noise while driving. Front driver side.

Recently started having a clunking/rattling noise from the front end. I just had the car in the shop for the noise and they went over every suspension part and checked

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Recently started having a clunking/rattling noise from the front end. I just had the car in the shop for the noise and they went over every suspension part and checked all nuts/bolts. Nothing was loose other than a collar on my new BC coilovers after 5-600 miles. Everything was well until today. It started again. It does the noise the entire time Im driving.

Got home, I jacked the car up, took of the front driver side wheel and felt over everything, nothing was loose. Only thing I found was a missing fender liner clip, a missing screw for the triangle corner cover. Fixed both of those and noise is still there.

Took it back up the road, no luck. I tried turning the steering wheel side to side and got a clunking noise. I went under the hood while doing the same thing and it sounds like its coming from the steering column/rack area the most.

Any help in the right direction would be awesome.
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Is it noise happening when traveling over bumps, in a straight line, when making turns, etc? I know that, after installing my SPL front endlinks my car does it every now and then when making sharp right-hand turns while braking when going downhill (very specific); otherwise, they don't make a sound.
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A video of the noise could help..
I do know it's could be bad gas like a knock of some form.. of you can upload a short video it'll be helpful

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Is it noise happening when traveling over bumps, in a straight line, when making turns, etc? I know that, after installing my SPL front endlinks my car does it every now and then when making sharp right-hand turns while braking when going downhill (very specific); otherwise, they don't make a sound.
Just general driving down the road. I just bought a set of spl front links as I need to install my hotchkis bar Ive had for a few months.
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A video of the noise could help..
I do know it's could be bad gas like a knock of some form.. of you can upload a short video it'll be helpful

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tried to get the best video i could. https://youtube.com/shorts/EkqeWJ-mNxs?feature=share might have to turn volume way up but you can hear it.
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tried to get the best video i could. https://youtube.com/shorts/EkqeWJ-mNxs?feature=share might have to turn volume way up but you can hear it.
Have you checked you spl Installation?
Because it sounds like metal touching another metal only while you are turning the steering even lightly... Could be something to do with the spl links have a friend turn the steering wheel side to die and get under the car see if you can see anything or hear anything

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