Hey guys,
I just reached over 3K mi and started to hear some rattling in the rear of my car. I know this has been discussed to some degree but not much. Anyone know what is causing this and if a TSB has been released?

Thanks for your help!

 

Have you figured out what was the problem? Can you describe it? I have similar at some times and wonder where it comes... I hear that without any sound system working...

 

Me,too ~
just noticed that 3 days ago ~~
very very annoying ~~
it's like coming from the back passenger side's speaker
it's like zzzzzzzzz ..kinda "electric"~~~
damN !

 

Ok I've heard about so many rattles and I've got 5k on my Z and I have only had one in my driver door, which is very minor so I decided not to go digging around..

But I recently started to have a metallic like rattle which I thought was somewhere near the spare tire or it was even the Z crosstower support rattling.. After taking all of the plastic apart and removing the aluminum Z cover and the spare, jake, etc... I STILL HAD the noise! So I decided to pop the hatch open where it was just unlatched and drive to see what I would hear.. It was GONE! I found I needed to do 2 things to get rid of the rattle..

1) at the back of the car to the lef and right of where the latch goes in there is the black plastic covering.. That was where my rattle was coming from.. If you closed fisted bang on the left side (for my car anyhow) there was something I couldn't see under there which was making a rattling noise. So I stuffed a small rag between and under the black plastic and the rubber gasket that is the seal for when the hatch closes.. I left just a tiny piece of the rag visible with most of the rag underneath stopping the noise..
2) There are two small rubber nubbies I will call them at the back of the hatch near the edge, one on the left and right that rest on this black plastic piece I jammed the rag under... I took some blk electrical tape and wrapped it around them both a number of times to add a little length to the rubber nubby.. Hence making it a tighter close when you shut the hatch. In fact, I have to now push with one hand on the glass, as to not scratch the paint if I did it on the edge of the painted surface, when I close the hatch because it is harder to close. BUT the noise is TOTALLY GONE!!

I don't know if this is what many others are hearing.. But I was so frustrated and wanted you all to know what fixed my irritatiing noise.

Steven

Daytona 03' Touring,- 6 speed

 

Wavehogger - Could you post coupld or so pictures... sounds like a very good find! thanks for sharing, I will go ahead and see if mines comes from that area as well.

 

Today, I have finally got to dig into trying to find that rattling that bothered meso much every since I installed the sub box in the stock location... reminder, I made a box that which the ext size was 18X14.5X6.5 - The box barely fit and when I put the metal brackt back in place the box was extremely tight touching the metal bracket etc. That were the rattling came from... I took it off and off the rattling gone... I still managed to close on the plastic cover... Note however, I notice that even without the metal bracket if the box touch! any of the metal parts in the stock location, that may introduce rattling... I used some pillow etc in between the box now and the other metal parts... needless to say, all the rallting is gone... I am happy again.. (other than the hard water spots but this belongs to another story....)

 

I fixed my rear rattle with some foam padding. Do a search and you will find pics on how to fix it.