Originally Posted by 400fanboy

That sounds like ball joints to me. Strut bars should be a clunk when first hitting the brakes. Mostly in parking lots.

Ball joints should be like sheet metal popping, often multiple times in short succession. You can hear them chattering away at speed on expansion joints and big cracks in the road.

Both of them can present "nervous" braking where the car will weave or tramline more under braking. The car should be exceptionally stable, even under heavy braking on uneven or wonky roads.

I would begin to suspect control arms if this only happens while turning in a specific direction, or only hitting one specific wheel. But of course more information would refine this lol.

Another final note (god I write a lot) is my ball joints were, according to my mechanic, "fine I don't see anything wrong". But they were the single biggest change I ever did to how my car drove.