(Home) What's that knocking

I have had a frustrating few months. I have had a knocking sound, which I thought was coming from under my seat. I knew the wheel bearing needed changing and I thought it would go away when I had it replaced. It did for a while but it came back again. It only seem to happen at slow speeds and the frequency of the knocking always stayed the same no matter what speed or obstacle I was negotiating. I could go on and on because I consider all possibilities except for the actual one. In fact when I did finally locate the offending culprit I was so mad that I had missed it before. Believe or not it was the roof aerial. Mine is pivoted at the top right hand corner of the driver’s door so it can lie down and follow the gutter or swing up to about 30 degrees. When it lay down and with the right conditions it would knock against the side of the roof. From the inside I could have sworn that the noise was coming from under my seat. I do believe there is supposed to be a clip on the gutter to prevent this but mine is missing.
I thought I would pass this on because I would hate for anyone else to be as frustrated as I have been trying to track this down. - (#621) Patrick Adams, 22 Jul 01

Sounds stupid I know but check your other side as the townace version I have has the aerial retaining clip on both sides. - (#677) Russ, 27 Jul 01

The last message was in error, it should have said I don't have one let alone two. - (#687) Patrick Adams, 29 Jul 01