This clunk drives me insane. its steady on the most smoothest road if you're doing 55mph and its horrible on the smallest bumps on the road. Especially how horrible the roads in south carolina are. tires are wearing inside. Can anyone pinpoint the problem?

 

Could be a few things back there, but tires wearing on the inside indicate something isn't sitting right. It sounds like it's got a bit of a clank to the clunk as well. Jack the car up, wheel off the ground, and press in on the top, bottom, left and right of the wheel and see if there's any movement in either way. If it's wearing on the inside, I'm inclined to think there might be excessive play in the outer u-joint of the halfshaft. If you are able to push the wheel in on any of the corners, have someone press on it while looking at the backside. I'll link a video that shows mine that shows exactly what I mean. Bear in mind, mine is excessively bad, but you'll get an idea of what I mean.

It could also be something in the upper shock mount area, but the only way to know would be to pull the shock out altogether, which takes a little more time and steps. I suppose if it broke enough up there where the shock wasn't being supported properly, then it could cause the shock itself to raise too high while it was sitting, and therefore letting that side "squat" more than it should, leading to inner tire wear.

 

It is squatting down to the right side which is where most of the noise is coming from. something leads me to believe me that it has something to do with the Shock assembly. I'm going to jack the car up tmrw and check

 

That's what clued me into mine as well. I had a slight clunk sometimes shifting forward to reverse from that corner, but otherwise, hardly made a peep (or my radio was up too loud to notice it). Hopefully it'll be easy to spot whatever your issue is.

 

I think those upper mounts are about gone

 

Certainly looks like a viable culprit!

 

hmmmm, so i would need to replace the shocks and upper shock mount bushings?

 

Your shocks may still be good (mileage?) but you certainly need to replace the three foam "doughnuts" (small, medium and large) at the top. Another source of knocks can be the shock lower bushings which you can inspect when you have everything out.

 

I'd just replace everything(minus the spring) shock related whilest there.

 

94,220 miles
gotta change the signature

 

and what all do i need for that?

 

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...8/#post1389438

 

If you buy new shock absorbers (#7, you can choose comfort or sport), they will come complete with two smaller foams at the top so you will only need to add the items 4 and 5 shown on the diagram.

 

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...03-xjr-147998/

 

Omgimali, this link may help too...................

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...-video-201680/



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I had a thumping problem similar to your a few years ago. It turned out to be the upper shock nut was loose. I found this because I replaced the shocks thinking it was bad.

 

How hard was it to tighten?