Over the past 6 months this has gotten progressively worse, it only used to squeak and creak when I turned into my driveway or over a lot of rough road but now every little bump makes my civic squeak and creak - sounds like an old horse wagon and it comes from all corners.

When I push down on the front and rear of the car it does not reproduce, steering to the left and right stationary does not reproduce, which is why I am thinking more control arm then strut? And if so, replacing control arm bushings on all my control arms is not something I look forward to doing at all - so I'm kinda at a crossroads here...this is my beater, having a shop do that would probably cost a lot of $$$ but doing it myself would probably take a long long time, especially getting those old bushings out on every...single...control arm.

After all the car does have 276,000 on it now, last 30K have been with tein h tech drop and kyb struts, properly aligned. Any ideas? Just let it be? Fix it? thanks

 

Replacing bushings on all 4 on a honda civic lx 2003 costs about $400

 

Don't guess. Put the car on stands, crawl underneath, inspect bushings and ball joints, and check suspension components for excess free play.