Ok gang.. here's the newest problem. Actually it's been like this forever, I've just now got around to addressing it. If I push on the trunk/rear fenders to bounce the back of the car up and down, it squeaks. The sound is actually two squeaks; a deeper sounding squeak, and a higher pitch one. They may be coming from two seperate things. They don't sound terrible, but they're getting annoying.
My first thought was the sway bar bushings. So, I removed the stirrups that holding the bushing, cleaned them, and lubed them up with white lithium grease. I gaurantee they're not the cause, but I still have the squeak(s). It's hard for me to determine where it's coming from, but I think it may be up in the shock tower. Maybe. It makes the noise on both sides.

Is there a common cause for sqeaks in the rear suspension? I would have bet $100 on the rear sway bar bushings, but it didn't help.
Any ideas?

Thanks guys

 

yes! mine did the same thing. I am at work right now and I don't have the information on me but, it was a thing in the spring. I have a TSB on it. If you PM me your email I can send it later to you. I just had someone else on here ask me for it today.lol

 

Oh sweet, thanks man. I PM'd my address to you.

 

one question. have you greased the parking cable on the bottom of the car where it is held by that clip thing? try that first.

 

No, I haven't. I'll try that tomorrow if it quits raining.

 

if its really a metal screching sounds then its a lower arm.. but if light then parking cables as jvegas said.. and springs and isolators usually on the early ones

 

Do not worry! I had same problem on my Jaguar S-type 3.0 2001.Problem is at the lower bonnet end of rear dumper...Just wait hoter days and the problem will be solved,thought,at say about SEPT. 15-20,you can think for repaire those bonnets at the lower end of dumper!

 

so 310jag waht was it???

 

Yeah, I haven't got around to getting out there and working on it. It's been in the mid 90s every day here for the past couple of weeks. It's still squeaking, and still really annoying. I've got bigger problems right now, though (see my new a/c) thread.. :/

 

i have a 2005 s type 3.0,i have the same problem, went under to see if i could hear where it was coming from,sounds like the shock or spring.PLease Help

 

I am new to these forums and have a question regarding S-type R SC and their suspensions. My car is a 2003 daily driver, nothing more and the shocks in the rear have gone bad. It has the CATS system. I was wondering if I could replace the 2 rear shocks with Bilstein B4-8 shocks and disconnect the CATS system? Again, it's just a daily driver and nothing more. I want to get out as inexpensive as I can. Is it possible to do the Bilsteins?

 

I had this issue too, it seemed to randomly start squeaking one day and I noticed it whenever I got in or out of the car.

I'm not sure what made it go away, but I basically took an aerosol can of grease and squirted every moving joint I could see on the suspension. It was still there but went away after a few days of driving around.