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AND after a hard turn a few months back the noise (which has increased over the years suddenly spiked ... then went away almost entirely. Go figure.

Well, with your description of the belly pan, maybe it was a chunk of it caught somewhere rattling, and it finally fell out with the hard turn.

I'm going to have to dive into the front-end, I hit a bump yesterday on my commute (same bump every day) and the whole front-end shimmied and it felt like a tire was just bouncing - maybe just the shocks finally going (or maybe I knocked a wheel-weight off, but it didn't really do much except when driving over the bumps), but for about $150 and my time under the front-end, I can replace all the rubber bushings, another $80 for decent shocks, and then to the alignment shop. The stock rubber is basically shot, and I don't want to waste time/money on the alignment without replacing the bushings first.