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Mine does the exact same thing, and has done since I got the car nearly 3 years ago. When there is some lock on, if one wheel takes a pot hole, normally the one on the inside of the turn, then there is a noticeable clunk through the steering wheel. Feels like backlash being taken up somehow. Definitely not a rub with the wheel arch liner (got the increased clearance ones anyway). Dealer can find nothing wrong, it's logged in case it gets worse, but it hasn't. I even had the guy who did my geo crawl all over it and he found nothing, nothing lose or damaged. When up on jacks if you sharply thumped the side of one tyre with your fist, from underneath you could see the steering column almost recoil, and reproduce the noise. But there seems to be no play in the rack, and it's absolutely fine during regular driving.
I'm just accepting it now as a characteristic of the car. Be interested if you find out anything else.
Pete
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