I am getting a popping/clicking type of sound from the front end, when backing out of my driveway with the wheel turned to the left, and when hitting bumps that take the suspension down, before coming back up. Like a cross gutter in the road, doesn't happen over a speed bump. The following work was done, prior to it making this noise.

Front Shocks (Bilstein 5100)
Front upper control arms and bushings
Front Lower control arm bushings
Front ball joints
Front Steering stabilizer grommets

I have gone through and checked all of the nuts and bolts, everything is tight. With the front wheels off the ground, no movement side to side of the wheels. All seems to be good, but this noise is making me concerned that something ain't right.

Any ideas what might be causing this problem?

Mine been doing for years. I kept replacing so many suspension components that it is practically whole new front end. All oem parts. Still pops like a metallic sound. Can’t find any scratch marks anywhere. Even a sway bar drop didn’t do anything. Pops whenever I’m going a bit too fast for any bumps or dips.

is your springs installed correctly? if you are anal about it, there is a certain way the springs have to be facing. mine makes a slight noise since I have some coil rub from these Moog springs. also check out the rubber isolator at the top hat. I think if those are worn, they cause some noise during hard bumps.

I also replaced Shocks, Struts, Calipers, Pads, rotors, sway bar bushings and I too now have this pop/click when I reverse out of my driveway with the wheel cranked to the right.

Scares me to hear it thinking that I may have screwed something up and the front end will fall off at highway speeds.

have the same or similar problem and am currently T/S'ing wish i had another person. watching this thread thanks.

Yep. I have the springs pointing like stock. I even placed nylon washers between the skid plate and mounting surface. Sat and stare for days. Nothing jumped out on me. LOL

I'd like to say I have a similar noise coming from somewhere but can't confirm 100%. I've done so much work to various parts that its hard to say when it started or where its coming from.

Did you lift the car any when replacing with the bilsteins? could it be that the inner OD of the replacement shock is just a bit larger than what was on there before allowing it to slightly shift while decompressing first before going into compression? Sounds unlikely so probably just ignore my input lol.

From time to time my rear link bolts need to be tightened slightly ever since I built custom links with heims and it seem like they'll pop back and forth a little. My heims also seem to want to rotate time to time and also make a slight clunk so I can't ever tell if its from the frontend all the time or also from the year.

My issue could also be coming from one of the skid plate bolts in the rear falling out and me being too lazy to replace it...

Eventually I got over my fear that something is loose so I'm just letting it be.

I just drive faster over bumps or dips and say to myself, f@ck IT! LOL.