Finally found the source of the noise that sounded like something was loose and knocking behind the dash & it turned out to be one of the little plastic plugs just in front of the passenger door frame, so I've just pulled it out for now. There is still the occasional tapping noise if I go over really rough road or bumps, so I pulled out the rest to see if that does anything. So for now it's 90% gone.
All of these little fixes for a passel of noise producing causes: will I remember any of them if/when my car starts to make this one or that one? "You heard it first here" only works if the resource isn't as colossal as a library!
All of these little fixes for a passel of noise producing causes: will I remember any of them if/when my car starts to make this one or that one? "You heard it first here" only works if the resource isn't as colossal as a library!
That was succinct by your normal standards MtM lol. As said previously ive had the whole dash and consul rattling and vibrating madly at 1400-2000 revs. Lesson learned don't buy an after market exhaust.
I have also been thinking what are the tolerances in the dash fitting. I thought heat made plastics and the like expand especially with our temperatures. Conversly with your northern hemishere winters this might compound things?
My WRX during our mild winter would have the dash rattle through the dash shrinking.
Actually throughout the entire car, tolerances are messed with in four seasons climes. From 100F plus in the summer to -0F in the winter, think about it: all that plastic is expanding and contracting and being torqued this way and that on crappy roads, etc. How can ANY car not develop loosening between fitted parts? It's a minor miracle that my car is still quiet as the day she rolled out of the dealership. How long will that last?
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"You heard it first here" only works if the resource isn't as colossal as a library!
