[gslater]

My '80 SC, which has been a fairly quiet car, suddenly started squeaking in the front end two days ago. From inside the cabin, one would think that the squeaking is emanating from somewhere under the dash, but when I got out of the car last night, I could tell the sound was definitely coming from somewhere around the front suspension stuff. Pushing down on either the left or right fender makes the noise, although it seems a bit stronger on the left side.

I'm going to have a look later today at the usual shocks/t-bars/bushings kind of stuff for anything that's radically altered, but I don't get why this kind of squeak would just suddenly appear. As in, if bushings were bad, I'd think that would be a slow, gradually appearing problem. Not the kind of sudden problem I'm seeing (hearing, really). Can shocks (I've got the Bilsteins) suddenly do this?

Any suggestions about what could get so noisy so fast?