Ok I get this weird creaking (kind of like rusty door opening, but a more deeper creak) noise coming from the front here are the symptoms, i did a search no one has symptoms like this:
1) Noise does not happen brake or acceleration or chaning gears
2) Noise does not happen when i go over small holes
3) It mostly happens when both wheels go off a bump for example speed bump, drive way, bridge to road transition
4) Mostly heard on the drivers side

Now I have gotten someone to sit inside the car and I started bouncing the front end, the noise was heared inside not outside (at least very fainlty), I also sprayed oil on the strut tower and the mount, no help still there. I'll try to get a recording of it so you guys can hear it.

I'm thinking it could be the dash or it just needs a lube job done?

ok i was listening to it again it sounds alot like something rubber is rubbing with some plastic or metal.

my car does that too. trying to figure it out too. I think is something to do with the struts cause i had a 98 taurus sho that did the exact same thing


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my struts don't make the sound because when i go over a bump or manhole the strut on drivers side or passenger side is quiet.

Probably the front bushings making noise... could be the bushings on the front sway bar (assuming you have one)..







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ya it probably has one since its a Z24, i'm gonna go for oil undercoating soon so hopefully that'll quiet things up.

this is common in the Cavs/Sunfires for some reason. I am getting it in my 04---passenger side. i think it is just the rubber strut mount. I'm gonna take it to the dealer and have them check it out.

I read the TSB for the strut mount it doesn't match my symptoms. This sound is at max volume when both wheels go off a dip in the road at the same time, it happens very faintly with one.

i have the problem too it is the strut bearings that allow the strut to turn when you turn the wheel






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where are the strut bearings?

is any of this covered by the powertrain warranty?

Ok I seem to have tried an experiment...
Today I went outside, tightened the middle bolt on the strut tower it was tight, then I found that some of the 1/2'' bolts around were loose so i tightened them up (not to the max), and I poured some oil over the strut mount, on top of that i put rags in some of the joints on the interior trim to see if that was also the problem (its not it, i checked by remvoing rags while driving), so the first bit was queit and the noise was almost gone. Its still like that now, except i'm wondering if i can tighten the strut mount bolts to the max to perhaps stop the noise completley?