help - striker noise
10-31-2003, 11:48 AM
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help - striker noise
Hello,
has anyone encountered a knocking or clicking noise from the rear passenger side? I took my car to the dealer to be checked.. it took us more than 30 minutes driving to replicate the noise.. it usually happens when I drive up a steep ramp on my right. Anyway, the mechanic thinks that it is the striker problem, so he tighten or fix it. Now, the noise is even worst. I can hear it when i break and when i accelerate.. "knock" "knock" it is just irritating. how can a 40K car does this..
anyway, please share if you have experience this b4.. also, what's the fix for it? taking it to the dealer next week..
TIA
has anyone encountered a knocking or clicking noise from the rear passenger side? I took my car to the dealer to be checked.. it took us more than 30 minutes driving to replicate the noise.. it usually happens when I drive up a steep ramp on my right. Anyway, the mechanic thinks that it is the striker problem, so he tighten or fix it. Now, the noise is even worst. I can hear it when i break and when i accelerate.. "knock" "knock" it is just irritating. how can a 40K car does this..
anyway, please share if you have experience this b4.. also, what's the fix for it? taking it to the dealer next week..
TIA
10-31-2003, 12:23 PM
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It's not the rear seat striker. I've had all parts out of the
car starting with the rear seats. It's coming from beneath the car. Could be suspension bushings, who knows. Many of us have this problem.
10-31-2003, 12:57 PM
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I had the same problem, it was a .....>
little rubber bumper that goes inside the gas cap, it's a pea-size rubber bumper that holds the gas cap (alumium) so it doesn't rattle. It's very easy to bump it off with the gas filler. Mine fell inside the cap cavity and plugged the water drain, so it was filling up that space (and it may have dumped some water into the gas tank). problem fixed, very quiet (for a sport car)