Hello,

Need some thoughts here, so I have an annoying metal on metal rattle/clunk noise coming from the Driver Side engine area / tire area.
At first I thought it was the sway bar bushing, replaced both and no go, I think the clunking (not metal on metal) is from my upper mount as the rubber bushing is looking bad, but there is a nasty rattle / metal on metal from the driver side rim / break area.

Could this be a bad shock?

Car is a 1999 XJR with 58K miles

thanks for your help

 

you can tell if its a bad shock by looking at your bushings. If your upper mount bushing is bad and the shock bushing at the bottom is bad that could be a clunk. My shock was busted and you could see the oil had leaked out and it clunked bad.

 

Take a serious look at your subframe bushings. The suspension rides on four really large bushings two located under the motor. They look similar to a flipped over old school engine mount and two other big round ones that you've probably already checked out.

The XJR tends to run through these bushings a little more quickly because their tires size has a much lower sidewall ergo the subframe bushings and mounts take more of the road impact.

You can do the job yourself with hand tools and a weekend.