rattling side door

P-Med · Post by **P-Med** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:37 pm

I've got this annoying rattle coming from the sliding door when driving, which somewhat negates the £300 I've spent on improving the sound system! It's not the tools, as I've taken these out and it's still there. It seems to be coming from the general area of the automatic closing mechanism at the back of the door.

Should I take the door apart, and if so how do you do this?

Northern Bongolow · Post by **Northern Bongolow** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:55 am

yes i would, mines more of a squeak, in the same area, ive been meaning to look at mine for 2 years, so if you find anything interesting please give me a shout as mines driving me nuts

to remove the panel.
behind the internal opening handle is a horseshoe clip, slide this off and pull the handle off, then carefully pop the top trim off(watch the clips they are very easy to break). then pull off the card.
watch you fingers in the auto close mechanism, it will take no prisoners.

jaylee · Post by **jaylee** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:21 am

My squeak comes from some broken weld in the seat back frame on the middle row near the sliding door.. (a common problem.)
I intend to remove the table back & look into some sort of "keyhole surgery" with the use of some sort of bolts.?

helen&tony · Post by **helen&tony** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:32 am

Hi
One annoying rattle I have is the sliding door window....If someone doesn't clip it entirely shut, it looks shut, but rattles....Simple fix...clip it properly closed until it clicks properly

Cheers
Helen

teenmal · Post by **teenmal** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:04 pm

P-Med wrote:I've got this annoying rattle coming from the sliding door when driving, which somewhat negates the £300 I've spent on improving the sound system! It's not the tools, as I've taken these out and it's still there. It seems to be coming from the general area of the automatic closing mechanism at the back of the door.

Should I take the door apart, and if so how do you do this?

This might help if you can savvy the instructions.

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... Kbg22.html

P-Med · Post by **P-Med** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:14 pm

Thanks for the tips on getting the panel off, especially the horseshoe clip tip! The panel is now off (why on earth did they use that black gunk to stick down the plastic cover?!). I'm going to tighten anything I can and cover it all with grease and hopefully the rattle will go away!

P-Med · Post by **P-Med** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:51 pm

So, I took the panel off and greased everything, put it back together again only to discover that the rattle was actually coming from the door of the safe that I installed under the rear seat!

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:27 pm

P-Med wrote:So, I took the panel off and greased everything, put it back together again only to discover that the rattle was actually coming from the door of the safe that I installed under the rear seat!

That's clever

now you've told everybody where the safe is

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