Door Rattle

philbilly20 · March 23, 2015

Okay, here's my deal, on my passenger door whenever the radio is up more than ⅓ with a song with any bass I have a rattle. It is on the inside of the door too. Should i take it to the dealer or not even mess with it thinking they may make it worse. Thanks

LongrangeLauber · March 23, 2015

Sounds like a loose speaker. Let them deal with it. It's under warranty

Skeeter McSkeet · March 27, 2015

I'll hear random rattles with certain bass frequencies, usually ends up being something in the center console when I think it's coming from the door. Not bad enough for me to even look for it though honestly.

-Skeet

CounterMeasure · March 28, 2015

Take it to the dealer if its under warranty and you don't want to mess with it.

Now, I had a buzzing coming from both doors at certain bass frequencies. For me, I was able to isolate it with a specific song and pressing on the door in certain parts, in this case, the faux wood trim piece. The trim piece pops off easily and a few bolts later I found my culprits. Turned out to be all the door and window controls sitting in their holders. There was just enough play they could vibrate. Some felt and electrical tape solved all that.

If the buzzing had been any deeper in the door, I would have let the dealer mess with it. Removing the panels didn't look like much fun.

Skeeter McSkeet · March 29, 2015

Take it to the dealer if its under warranty and you don't want to mess with it.

Now, I had a buzzing coming from both doors at certain bass frequencies. For me, I was able to isolate it with a specific song and pressing on the door in certain parts, in this case, the faux wood trim piece. The trim piece pops off easily and a few bolts later I found my culprits. Turned out to be all the door and window controls sitting in their holders. There was just enough play they could vibrate. Some felt and electrical tape solved all that.

If the buzzing had been any deeper in the door, I would have let the dealer mess with it. Removing the panels didn't look like much fun.

I popped my back rear panel off earlier, it really is a simple job. Pop the cover off behind the door handle and the one in the bottom of the handle that is for closing the door. Remove four 7mm bolts, and used a nylon pry-bar to pop off the panel held by clips all the way around. Seems like there was a lot of play in the plastic parts, I feel like any one of them could cause a rattle. Three of the four bolts were so loose that I could unscrew them with my hand.

-Skeet