Creaky mother ******! What is it?

[bashbarnard]

Lay underneath the rear middle of the car and push it up and down to listen for the creak!

My 2000 Hdi estate has the same annoying creak, a potential buyer was underneath and blamed the worn out rear shocks but I kinda know it's the now unsealed dried out needle bearings in the trailing arms.

My car was owned by Peugeot for a year then an 80 year old on a blue disabled badge for the first 12 years and only had 56k when I tracked it down, it now has 116k and the same creak as you,

20k a year since 2012 and a shed load of heavy loads have killed the rear shocks and most likelybeam

When you're under the car and have located the creaking sound if it's near the end of the beam up near the tank then it's likely the bearings! A reconditioned axle is £250-£300 and is the way to go if you want to own the car for years to come!

The little handbrake actuator lever on each rear calliper quite often loses its seal at this mileage /age and begins seizing up so worth unhooking the cables and checking for the creak again to rule out sticky calliper restricting even rise or fall of the rear beam! Maybe :-)

I'm a newbie on the forum and this is my first post but I've owned over a dozen 306's in the past ten years so kinda know them quite well!

If its the shocks then they're only about £15-£20 trade rates and access is easy if up on a ramp so not end of the world

Rear beam. But about time we had a good newb post. I was terrible as a newbie. Lol