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YOUR RESEARCHNoisy steering - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

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struts and a bad sway bar link

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I thought the steering was bad in my 03 S and it turned out to be failing struts and a bad sway bar link.

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Test i noticed the steering made a low rumbling noise

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Suggestion · Original poster

Took my Boxster to garage for an MOT, after the test I noticed the steering made a low rumbling noise.

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Leading evidence: 'struts and a bad sway bar link' (no explicit attributable resolution; this is a reported action or suggestion). Across 1 matching discussions, the most frequently mentioned possible cause is 'struts and a bad sway bar link' (1 discussions; 0 report identifying it and 1 suggest it). The most frequently discussed action is 'Test i noticed the steering made a low rumbling noise' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.

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Test i noticed the steering made a low rumbling noise

Suggestion or failed attempt

No successful repair reported for this finding.

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Explicit resolution reports before identified causes, performed actions and suggestions. Within each level, matching component labels precede direct query mentions and inherited thread context; successful versus unsuccessful discussion counts, owner confirmations and independent discussion support determine order. This is not a probability of success.

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0 original-poster resolution reports. Counts can overlap; they are not unique people or a success rate.

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Suggestion · Original poster

Took my Boxster to garage for an MOT, after the test I noticed the steering made a low rumbling noise.

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Use block

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Suggestion · Original poster

Took it back to ask them to check and they jacked it up using a block under the center of the front!

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Test i noticed the steering made a low rumbling noise

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0 original-poster resolution reports. Counts can overlap; they are not unique people or a success rate.

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Suggestion · Original poster

Took my Boxster to garage for an MOT, after the test I noticed the steering made a low rumbling noise.

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Noisy steering - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Use block

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0 original-poster resolution reports. Counts can overlap; they are not unique people or a success rate.

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Suggestion · Original poster

Took it back to ask them to check and they jacked it up using a block under the center of the front!

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Reported and suspected causes (1)

These are separate views of the same evidence. Frequency alone does not establish a fix, and these counts must not be added together.

struts and a bad sway bar link

No successful repair reported for this finding.

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Identified cause
1
Suspected cause
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Reported fixes
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Discussions that suspect a cause
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0 original-poster resolution reports. Counts can overlap; they are not unique people or a success rate.

0 discussions have direct query context; 0 report a fix in that context. Other evidence may inherit the discussion’s subject.

Suspected cause

I thought the steering was bad in my 03 S and it turned out to be failing struts and a bad sway bar link.

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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Took my Boxster to garage for an MOT, after the test I noticed the steering made a low rumbling noise. Took it back to ask them to check and they jacked it up using a block under the center of the front! Will this cause any damage? None was found but the noise is still there.

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I thought the steering was bad in my 03 S and it turned out to be failing struts and a bad sway bar link.

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