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Help me find rattle

  • 03-04-2013 9:08pm
    #1
    zizou_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭


    My car has developed a really annoying rattle which sounds like it's coming from the roof/windscreen directly above the driver's sunvisor. It was intermittent but is there nearly all the time now. I've taken apart a lot of the trim and i'm no closer to finding it and it's wrecking my head.

    Could the windscreen itself be loose? It seems fine but is there anyway to tell?


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  • #2
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    zizou_ wrote: »
    My car has developed a really annoying rattle which sounds like it's coming from the roof/windscreen directly above the driver's sunvisor. It was intermittent but is there nearly all the time now. I've taken apart a lot of the trim and i'm no closer to finding it and it's wrecking my head.

    Could the windscreen itself be loose? It seems fine but is there anyway to tell?

    Take it through a carwash.


  • #3
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Odelay


    A/S/L or year, make and model of car?

    Have you tried feeling around the roof liner gently pushing the windscreen while someone looks from outside? Unclip the sunvisors and also check the cabin light bulb/fitting hasn't come loose. Remove every item from the car, change, pens, crap in the boot and take it for a drive.

    Sean


  • #4
    Not
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Not


    LOL, the last time I spent ages - weeks - trying to get to the bottom of an annoying rattle in the car I eventually discovered it was coming from















    wait for it....


















    it's a good un....


















    the keyring attached to the key in the ignition !!!!:o:rolleyes:


  • #5
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Not wrote: »
    the keyring attached to the key in the ignition !!!!:o:rolleyes:

    That happened to me too, only I copped it first time it happened and just lived wit it as it was an aluminium cap opener. This time I use a key with a ring and that's it :)

    OP a video would be a huuuuuuugggggggeeeeeee help ;)


  • #6
    zizou_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭zizou_


    Odelay wrote: »
    A/S/L or year, make and model of car?

    It's an 02 Accord

    wrote:
    Have you tried feeling around the roof liner gently pushing the windscreen while someone looks from outside? Unclip the sunvisors and also check the cabin light bulb/fitting hasn't come loose. Remove every item from the car, change, pens, crap in the boot and take it for a drive.

    I've taken the sunvisors, interior lights, A pillar trim off - also taped down all the wires but didn't help
    dgt wrote: »
    OP a video would be a huuuuuuugggggggeeeeeee help ;)

    Will try and stick one up tomorrow - noise starts immediately after i move off which has me thinking about the windscreen itself.


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  • #7
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    <snip>


  • #8
    keith_d99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭keith_d99


    zizou_ wrote: »
    It's an 02 Accord




    I've taken the sunvisors, interior lights, A pillar trim off - also taped down all the wires but didn't help



    Will try and stick one up tomorrow - noise starts immediately after i move off which has me thinking about the windscreen itself.

    Are you sure it's not coming from under the bonnet?
    Try opening the bonnet a little (on the safety catch) - and take a small drive and see if the rattle is still there.


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