Finally got the my X-trail back at 2pm. The car spent 1.5 days at Tan Chong. It was ready in the car park but no one called me >_< . Luckily I decided to stop over after lunch. Caught them unprepared. Documents were not ready.
They included 2 "missing" clips for my air filter intake which so happen to be secured properly by cable tie when I sent the car in. They wanted to charge me RM4.50 for each of those clip when I already had a bag of those under the arm rest. I had them take it out and replaced it with my own on the spot. =P
Anyway back to the mountings and all the gluk gluk sound...
Here are the old ones. There are some serious cracks in each one of them. Luckily I purchased and had all four of the mountings replaced. I've marked the fault areas on the mounts. Please click on the image for a better view of the mounting faults.
Rear mounting - Visible cracks.
Front mounting - Slight crack and material fatigue.
Left hand mounting - Visible cracks.
Right hand mounting - Small cracks are starting to appear.
I am seriously wondering where on earth did the previous owner drag the X-trail through. This is a 2003 model. Its only been like 5 years. Maybe it was 5 years of neglect?
Anyway back to the topic of gluk.. Will this solve that annoying gluk-gluk sound thats been bothering me? I still can't tell through the preliminary tests. I'll probably conclude it after a week or so after the brain overcomes the euphoric phase of replacing a new part in the X-trail.
Fingers crossed everyone !!
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