| calgary |
I’ve been enjoying the smooth ride of my black 2006 mdx for over a month now. Well, comparing to my 2001 corolla, mdx is much powerful, smooth, and huge.
There is one problem bothering me though. Every morning on my way to work, I get this crispy click noise from the passenger side whenever there is bump on the road. My wife has very sensitive hearing but she still can’t locate where exactly the noise is coming from. Sometimes it seems coming from the area behind the passenger side airbag, sometimes it feels like it’s coming from the pillar, while sometimes it seems coming from the passenger door. It is a noise kind of like when you play with a piece of hard paper or plastic sheet. It seems it only happens when I am going above 40 km. The strange thing is that on the way home in the afternoon, it does not happen. So I am suspecting it is temperature related, it only happens when the car and outside is cool.
The car has been back to the dealer twice. First time was for them to fix the 3M tape they did poorly on the hood, I mentioned the noise, they could not reproduce the problem. So this week I sent the car in again specifically for this problem a day before, let the car sit on their lot for a night, so they can try it out the next morning. Yesterday got the car back, they replaced “the noisy starter”!!! I drove to work this morning, guess what, the click rattling is still there.
Does anybody else have this problem or do I just have to live this and regret that I could have gotten a noisy pilot for less money? |
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| andreseng |
| Just for grins and giggles. Have you tried removing the contents of the glove compartment for the morning ride? |
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| calgary |
| I did that. I removed EVERYTHING in the vehicle, not only in the gove box. It did not help. :mad: |
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| G. COLTON |
.Have dealers man take ride with you while you drive. You can then point out noise.
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| DWF |
| I had a noise from this area and I thought it was the glove box door, with the help of some of the great forum brothers here I was able to isolate the noise to the wiring harness that run behind the glove box. I stuffed some insulation up in-between the harness and the plastic grove box frame and the noise went away. Just a thought...good luck. (I hate these annoying little noises, drives me crazy!) |
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| calgary |
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Originally posted by DWF
I was able to isolate the noise to the wiring harness that run behind the glove box. I stuffed some insulation up in-between the harness and the plastic grove box frame and the noise went away.
DWF,
Could you please provide detail on how to get access to the back of the glove box? Thanks. |
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| DWF |
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Originally posted by calgary
DWF,
Could you please provide detail on how to get access to the back of the glove box? Thanks.
I did not take anything apart to do this, I just moved the passenger seat all the way back and layed(Uncomfortably) on my back on the floor, stuck my head under the glove box with a flashlight in hand and looked up...you will see a bunch of wires running behind the glove box area. They all appeared to be fasten but under certain conditions, mines apparently would rub and create the noise I had. I just got the same foam insulation I had left over from fixing the "OTHER" noise I had in the sub-woofer and wedge some of it between the harness and glove box area. Noise went away...hope this helps. |
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