Does My Car Need Polyurathane Bushings?

Question

my civic dx squeaks like a mother everytime i drive around..it's always squeaking.
when i go over some potholes and bumps you can imagine it 10x's more squeakier. the sound is driving me insane!

my friend asked me how i could stand all the squeaking, i told him i got used to it after awhile..but now i'm starting to go mad.

all this started to happen after i installed some skunk2 coilovers w/the little sleeve and tokico illuminas (whites).
(these struts can be adjusted 5 ways, but i only have them on '3' so they aren't that stiff or soft either way.)

the car is lowered by about 2.75 inches, low, but not that low..at least my headers aren't scraping the ground.

i tried spraying random parts underneath my car with wd-40 and lubed up some joints with some grease and as far as i can tell, the sound comes from all 4 sides and not just 1 area.
needless to say, the grease and the wd-40 did NOT work at all.

my friend tells me that it's my bushings

Answer 1

I don't know about YOUR car; you've done a number of mods on it already. I had a stock Camry that had started to make little squeaks occasionally. It was the family hauler. When I took it in to get the timing belt changed, the shop told me they felt I should get the suspension bushings changed because they were getting heavily worn. It wasn't a lot more than what I already had lined up, so I told them to go ahead. Man, was that a good move. It drove like a new car again, and did get a lot quieter !

Maybe with the coil-overs, it exaggerates the effect of the worn bushings. Take it to a reputable shop, and have them check it out !

Answer 2

sway bars are probably binding with the lowering you've done or the shock lower bushings. check they are fitted correctly (or the end could snap off-nasty)

Answer 3

try wrapping the colivers with those wire sleeves