Q: Clicking in exhaust system

asked by on May 18, 2016

A little while ago, I started hearing metallic sorts of clicking noises when I go around corners. It also seems to happen when I'm going around a corner, stopping hard, or accelerating fast. It's almost like a rock or something sliding around in the exhaust, and it's not all the time. What might cause this?

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