Creaking sound from under a 2001 996 Tip, any ideas?

[jcf]

Please no tip jokes, or indeed suggestions that I have snagged a rocking chair in the manifold etc.
I am taking the 996 in for a MAJOR service to Glasgow OPC tommorrow and was hoping someone might be able to forearm me, so to speak.

The car is running fine, but there is a definate creaking noise at slow speeds sound like it right below centre of the car. It might be there at high speeds, but I'll be bugg@@ed if I can here it over the engine.8-)
Is this something to do with the auto box, its my first one.

Any Ideas Gentlemen?

Cheers

John

[Country Boy]

Mine had a creaking noise at slow speed - had to have a new control arm which fixed it. If it's any help it cost me £280, it sounded like an old pram and I was please to get it fixed. I couldn't hear any noise at speed but I'm sure it was still there.

[Country Boy]

Sorry forgot to mention that it was easy to hear the creaking noise when the car was stationary by grabing the rear wheel arch and moving it up and down. The indie told me they dry out when work like new clutch is done on the ramp, I'm not an expert but I think the arm is not in it's normal position when the car's being worked on and it dries out.

[USS Bozeman]

Sounds like lower control arm to me. Drop links and suspension top mounts make more of a clunk sound going over bumps. Control arms creak (its the bushes that start to perish)
Funnily enough just today I picked up my 996TT (02) today having had both control arms replaced (my indi said that its better to replace both not just one) and hey-presto no creaking.
An OPC will probably advise that if you replace the arm/s that a full geometry alignment is also done. I had mine done but I have had the car 3 years and never had it done, so thought I should - and looking at the before and after printouts glad I did - my settings were seriously out and are now perfect and it really feels like a different car.

[thong]

change'd front n/s one on a 4S today due to creaking, TCA, replace the rear arm as said above.

Edited by thong on Thursday 4th October 21:41