Annoying rattle/vibration noise identified!

SS502 · January 31, 2019

My 2018 SLT developed a little “rattle/vibration noise” about a month after I bought it last October. It was never consistent and since I’m normally alone it was hard to track it down. From the drivers seat it always sounded like possibly a door panel, lock, dash speaker, glove box who knows but it was from the passenger side for sure. Was pretty faint but annoying all the same. Well, took GF to dinner tonight and I could hear it but she couldn’t. Great! Sorry for the long read...she dropped the passenger visor to check her lipstick...BINGO!!!! It was that plastic mirror cover and it only did it when it was in the up and stowed position. I duplicated it every time and just dropping the visor made it stop. I put a tiny piece of felt pad between the plastic and the mirror frame area, noise all gone ? Just wanted to share in case someone else has it and it’s driving them as crazy as it was me.

HeySkippyDog · January 31, 2019

Lol. My 2014 had a rattle and my truck now has the same one.

I bet it's the same thing. I'll flip them down and find bumpy road and test.

It doesn't particularly bother me, but I've wondered where the hell it comes from. I am guilty of hoarding change in cup holders. Sometimes it's been that.

I'll tell you a funny one. Right after I bought my 2014, my then-girlfriend would routinely get mad at me for smoking and she'd steal my Zippo or hide my cigarettes.

One night I had to go pick her up from hanging out with one of her friends. They were white girl wasted. She saw my Zippo in the console and flung it. The windows were open in case she puked and I assumed it flew out.

A year later, I was hearing a lot of racket under the back seat over bumps, and I thought it was the spare tire tools. Nope. My lighter was back there in the little hole where the seat bracket grabs cab body metal.

The lighter was sentimental as it was given to me from a friend who is no longer here. I sent her looking on the side of the road for it.

Serves her right.

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JimCost2014 · January 31, 2019

1 hour ago, SS502 said:

My 2018 SLT developed a little “rattle/vibration noise” about a month after I bought it last October. It was never consistent and since I’m normally alone it was hard to track it down. From the drivers seat it always sounded like possibly a door panel, lock, dash speaker, glove box who knows but it was from the passenger side for sure. Was pretty faint but annoying all the same. Well, took GF to dinner tonight and I could hear it but she couldn’t. Great! Sorry for the long read...she dropped the passenger visor to check her lipstick...BINGO!!!! It was that plastic mirror cover and it only did it when it was in the up and stowed position. I duplicated it every time and just dropping the visor made it stop. I put a tiny piece of felt pad between the plastic and the mirror frame area, noise all gone ? Just wanted to share in case someone else has it and it’s driving them as crazy as it was me.

That was a really long post, my attention span stopped somewhere around the glove box. Glad you worked out things with your girlfriend, sorry she got lipstick on your truck????

SS502 · January 31, 2019

36 minutes ago, JimCost2014 said:

That was a really long post, my attention span stopped somewhere around the glove box. Glad you worked out things with your girlfriend, sorry she got lipstick on your truck????

Yeah I get long winded sometimes...ummm no the lipstick got on something else ?

JimCost2014 · January 31, 2019

Just now, SS502 said:

Yeah I get long winded sometimes...ummm no the lipstick got on something else ?

Careful???, how is the Hemp Gas (420/E85) refining going?

SS502 · January 31, 2019

1 minute ago, JimCost2014 said:

Careful???, how is the Hemp Gas (420/E85) refining going?

I can neither confirm or deny those rumors...however if it was under my development, it would be against company policy to divulge trade secrets...

JimCost2014 · January 31, 2019

Just now, SS502 said:

I can neither confirm or deny those rumors...however if it was under my development, it would be against company policy to divulge trade secrets...

You Oregon stoners and your fancy words.....

SS502 · January 31, 2019

Just now, JimCost2014 said:

You Oregon stoners and your fancy words.....

We just tend to see things through a rather non-traditional pair of glasses. Ours are “Duck” yellow vs the more commonly worn “Rose” colored ones.

JimCost2014 · January 31, 2019

58 minutes ago, SS502 said:

We just tend to see things through a rather non-traditional pair of glasses. Ours are “Duck” yellow vs the more commonly worn “Rose” colored ones.

Trust me, Washington has very much the same view, a little cloudy at times.