Regarding the gentleman who called into the show today with the car that would go clunk after coming to a stop. (don’t recall the type of car he had) It sort of reminds me of what my car will do on occasion. Sometimes after coming to a stop for a few seconds my car’s A/C compressor will kick on, kic…

Both My suburban and my gm chassis rv make the same clunk as your caller describes … it definitely comes from the fuel tank. An easy way to eliminate the trans as the problem is to place the shifter in neutral as you come to a stop … this will remove the tension from the entire drivetrain and I’ll…

Gentlemen (and I use the term loosely!), another possibility is the rear yoke on said Jeep. Chrysler has a problem with clunking rear yokes back when we all had more brain cells and I had my sanity. As I recall there was a t.s.b. on them and it involved grease, cussing and sometimes replacing the yo…

Marshall should check to see if the jack in his Jeep’s spare tire well is rolling around. My Jeep recently had the exact same clunking sound after coming to a stop. I traced the sound to the jack that is stored in the spare tire well under the mat in the storage area. In my Jeep there is a full s…

I have a 2001 Toyota Tundra and it makes a similar noise after it comes to a complete stop. My car has disc on the front and drums on the back. The drums are not self adjusting and when they have gotten out of adjustment the car makes this sound. Does a Grand Cherokee have rear drums. If so adju…

I agree with fleecerdog and the senator. I believe this car was a Jeep with the 3 second delay clunk and felt like he was bumped from behind. If the drive shaft yoke splines are dry and rusty this could stick in place w holding the suspension slightly loaded after coming to a stop. When the weight …

My 1989 4runner did the same thing. The spare tire was suspended on a little chain elevator that took a long thin rod and the jack handle to raise and lower. The tire would loosen up every 10k miles or so and start clunking every stop and on fast starts. The fix was a few cranks on the elevator c…

I have a 1999 Suburban. Over the years I have had this exact problem 3 times. It only occurs at stopping; about 3 seconds after coming to a complete stop it sounds as if a small vehicle has tapped my bumper, more sound but a slight feel. The fix has been easy - they grease the CV joint. It fixes…

I had a 93 grand cherokee and it had airbrakes that did all sorts of strange things I’d ask Marshall if his brake pedal depresses further or pushes back on his foot at same time as sound. I don’t remember mine doing exactly what he says but the air would pump back up in the line once you stopped and…

I’m with “abidling dude” also… Marshall should check to see if the jack in his Jeep’s spare tire well is rolling around. Craig Hanson above has the best answer. Marshall didn’t give us the year of his Jeep so it might have side storage wells in the back that something is rolling around in. As a car …

The Car Says "Clunk"

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CraigHanson March 4, 2012, 9:37pm 10

I’m with “abiding dude”. Everything fits (including the clunk when he suddenly moves forward) if he has a large rolling object in the trunk! We took a new car back to the dealer for a similar clunk (with a delay of about 1 second), which turned out to be a bottle of Snapple that we had left under the passenger seat the first time we drove it!

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