starfire039
24-04-09, 08:32 PM
my car's developed a rattle, one that is most odd, and i can't for the life of me guess where it is!!
it's coming from the passenger footwell area, in the wheel arch area and only rattles when i accelerate from standing, and brake to standing. it sounds like a boat creaking on the water, if that makes sense.
i've got the glovebox out to investigate, had the carpet up, tightened up the bolts that hold the side skirts on, put my hand in every single place under the dash to examine for loose components. none!
i am trying to remember when the rattle started, and if i did anything that might have triggered it, i had my front passenger seat out and put it back in again, roughly at the time this started, but i'm skeptical if this is the seat throwing the sound to the front, i did the bolts up to the correct torque with a torque wrench, apart from one which needed a ratchet as the torque wrench was too big. the next thing i will do is take the seat out again and see if it cures it, and investigate if it's part of the subframe mech that's doing this.
long shot, but has anybody come accross this before? it's driving me nucking futs. gonna see if i can get it out this weekend, but i will be pre occupied with missus - seeing obligations and the forumula 1!
it's coming from the passenger footwell area, in the wheel arch area and only rattles when i accelerate from standing, and brake to standing. it sounds like a boat creaking on the water, if that makes sense.
i've got the glovebox out to investigate, had the carpet up, tightened up the bolts that hold the side skirts on, put my hand in every single place under the dash to examine for loose components. none!
i am trying to remember when the rattle started, and if i did anything that might have triggered it, i had my front passenger seat out and put it back in again, roughly at the time this started, but i'm skeptical if this is the seat throwing the sound to the front, i did the bolts up to the correct torque with a torque wrench, apart from one which needed a ratchet as the torque wrench was too big. the next thing i will do is take the seat out again and see if it cures it, and investigate if it's part of the subframe mech that's doing this.
long shot, but has anybody come accross this before? it's driving me nucking futs. gonna see if i can get it out this weekend, but i will be pre occupied with missus - seeing obligations and the forumula 1!