Fixing door rattles?

TommyR · Aug 16, 2018

Has anyone bothered with this? My 2 front doors rattle like a damn southern boy in an Alaskan winter and it drives me nuts. Can it be fixed by replacing the clips that hold the door in? I'm assuming that's all it is because just gently pushing against the door card stops it from making noise.

On another note for those with subwoofers: how do you stop the trim piece with the map lights/rear ac controls from making noise when the subs hit?

PG01 · Aug 17, 2018

TommyR said:
Has anyone bothered with this? My 2 front doors rattle like a damn southern boy in an Alaskan winter and it drives me nuts. Can it be fixed by replacing the clips that hold the door in? I'm assuming that's all it is because just gently pushing against the door card stops it from making noise.

On another note for those with subwoofers: how do you stop the trim piece with the map lights/rear ac controls from making noise when the subs hit?

Next time driving put the windows up, or down all the way then raise or lower them and inch or 2 and see it rattles stop. Could be regulators for windows are loose.

You can pull trim pieces and put some foam cut into squares or strips to stop it from rattling.

Big Mama · Aug 17, 2018

Agreed. It’s not usually the panel. Get a bag of new clips anyway some will break and they’re cheap.

iamdub · Aug 17, 2018

X2 on pulling the panels and replacing the clips. Cutting some 1" squares of foam rubber weatherstripping, poking a hole in the middle and slipping it over the point of the clip can help tighten if that's needed. But usually the problem is aged and/or broken clips and new ones alone fix the loose panel. You can get bags of them on eBay and Amazon pretty cheaply. If you still have gaps with movement of any panels, line the contacting edges of the panel(s) with adhesive-backed felt. Weatherstripping can be used to fill the larger gaps.

To find rattles, I play bass notes from an Autosound 2000 album and fix the rattles as each frequency creates them. Different frequencies can make different areas vibrate. Play a frequency on repeat, fix the rattle, move up in Hz until something else rattles, fix that, and so on. If you're gonna be popping panels off to replace clips (door or interior trim), it'd be a great time to install sound deadener tiles.

TommyR · Aug 19, 2018

iamdub said:
X2 on pulling the panels and replacing the clips. Cutting some 1" squares of foam rubber weatherstripping, poking a hole in the middle and slipping it over the point of the clip can help tighten if that's needed. But usually the problem is aged and/or broken clips and new ones alone fix the loose panel. You can get bags of them on eBay and Amazon pretty cheaply. If you still have gaps with movement of any panels, line the contacting edges of the panel(s) with adhesive-backed felt. Weatherstripping can be used to fill the larger gaps.

To find rattles, I play bass notes from an Autosound 2000 album and fix the rattles as each frequency creates them. Different frequencies can make different areas vibrate. Play a frequency on repeat, fix the rattle, move up in Hz until something else rattles, fix that, and so on. If you're gonna be popping panels off to replace clips (door or interior trim), it'd be a great time to install sound deadener tiles.

Thanks for all the tips. And yeah, the frequency differences are pretty neat. The higher the Hz, the further up in the cabin you can feel it. Around 30hz is a nice lower back massage while 80hz+ makes my hair vibrate and the ceiling rattle like hell lll

iamdub · Aug 19, 2018

TommyR said:
Thanks for all the tips. And yeah, the frequency differences are pretty neat. The higher the Hz, the further up in the cabin you can feel it. Around 30hz is a nice lower back massage while 80hz+ makes my hair vibrate and the ceiling rattle like hell lll

Truth.

Way back, I had two mediocre 12s in my Civic. I was playing with the subsonic notes, like around 15 Hz where all you can hear up close is the air the speakers are pumping. You hear no bass sound nor feel anything. I looked out the car to see my next door neighbor and the neighbor across the street meet in the middle of the road and both were looking down the street toward the field behind a nearby church. They were looking for a helicopter landing!

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