im hearing a popping noise in the front when i turn the wheel left and right...what could it be? springs not settled or what

 

Not seated correctly. Perhaps not indexed correctly to the upper strut mount. Try to realign them, they can be picky sometimes.

 

jack the car up, reseat, then lower it back down

 

make sure you put on your top mount bearings, take them off the stock assembly

 

The alingment has to be done correctly.

A minor flaw,but it can be handled easily.

Get it done from an expert.

 

Another extraordinarily rare problem.
(sarcasm)

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What I guess you're hearing is the springs moving on the mount plates. Usually as a result of upper bearing failure, poor spring manufacture, or also shocks over-length (some spring manufacturers require shocks to be shortened when installing their lowered coils)..... I assume this noise has only occurred since installing new springs?? Or after having springs out and back in??
As someone else mentioned - could also be due to not aligning the spring with the seat (causing spring to jump in and out of seat). A good practice when installing springs, is to compare original with replacements for height, number of coils (rate of progression), and also alignment of pig-tails/ends of springs both top & bottom. You'd be surprised at the number of replacement springs that have been carelessly manufactured, and the pig-tails etc don't match up with the originals!!!
Sometimes you can improve this by turning the top rubber spring mount (if your model has it) to suit, although this can also cause further headaches with top plate fitment....
Hope it helps!
Mike

Mike

 

Ground Control's springs are manufactured by Eibach, I can assure you that the springs are not the issue more than likely it is an install problem or a seating problem. What shocks?

 

i have one the ground control coilovers on stock shocks. i havent gotten the alignment fixed yet.