Shock noise diagnosis thought/idea..

[dog man]

To try to investigate the cause of rattling could the noise/rattle be felt or detected if I were to remove a shock and spring and manipulated the shock by hand?

[Barreti]

What kind of noise?

Are they ride height adjustable? It could be the locking nut has worked loose and is rattling

[spend]

Compress the spring / jack up to remove preload and insert a bit of card to see if it works loose because the spring is coming off its seat in use.

Blue the bump stop / cable tie the rod to see if the shock is frequently hitting the stop..

Simple JFDI things to see the travel of your springs/dampers

Most other loose linkages etc can be investigated agriculturally with pry bars, fat mates etc.

[dog man]

No they're just Bilstiens. It's a rattle which has always been there and I've had the front shocks off at least to do other work so I hope not loose nuts. Spend..I don't quite understand your suggestion Can you explain differently? Sorry to be slow!