Rattling problem

I have two problems.

Problem 1:

I play my music pretty loud in my car. When I play songs with loud bass, there is this plastic thing on the door, that goes around the leather thats in the middle of the front door that rattles. Its kinda hard to explain but you will see it if you open up your door. When I push on it while the song is still playing, the rattling stops, when I let the pressure off, the rattleing returns. Its really annoying, and it happens in both of the front doors.

Problem 2:

The back license plate rattles a little when I play some music. Since there are only 2 bolts holding the plate at the top, and non on the bottom, the bottom kinda rattles a bit (probably a lot when I drive). I was thinking maybe sticking little soft styraphone tabs on the bottom inside of the plate, so there wouldnt be any room for the plate to move back and forth. Any ideas?

Thanks

Not styrofoam! You can use this foam that they sell that is like leather. In the case of your license plate, place it behind the plate and run the screws through it to hold it in place. Try placing it behind that plastic thing in your doors and you should be straight. Let me know how it turns out. Peace!

How am I suppose to put the thing inside the plastic on my door? it would seem that I would have to take the whole damn door apart or something.

Originally posted by Koojo
How am I suppose to put the thing inside the plastic on my door? it would seem that I would have to take the whole damn door apart or something.

I have no clue what you are looking at. Based on what you said, it seemed as if the parts on the doors are separate from the panel. If you need to remove the panel, it's not that hard, really.

Damn . . . I can't remember how to do that schitt . . .

Anyways . . . just remember that there are some screws on the door jam . . . you gotta pop off some little black pieces on the head of the screws first . . . then there are some more of them on the bottom, I think(?) . . . and last but not least, when you're trying to take that panel off and it won't budge . . . pop out the power window switch.

Use a blade type screw driver (flat head) wrapped in a piece of cloth so you don't damage your interior. underneath the switch, there's a screw that attatches the armrest to the panel and the panel to the door frame . . . if you have all of the screws out, and that piece of plastic around the door lock/handle on the inside . . . then firmly grab the sides of the panel and push it up . . . use a motion similar to that you would use to put somebody up against a wall when you grab and lift them by the arm pits . . .

PS . . . that's how it is on my P10 . . . I don't even know if we're talking about a P10 here . . .

Does the Infiniti department do that kinda stuff? If i say that the doors are rattlin or something, will they fix it? I remember that one of my friends had a 96 Honda, and like a year later or so the same thing happend to him, and he went to the service department and told him the problem and they took care of it. Will ours do that too? If so how much would it cost approximatly?

Hey Koojo,

go to any car audio install shop... they know how to remove your door paneling with out damaging anything, if you dont. show them where the noise is and they can probably use Dynamat, or a Dynamat equivalent to mute those vibez... :)

while you're at it.. ask them for a small 6 inch long by 1 inch wide piece of dynamat to stick on the back of your licence plate. stick it toward the bottom.. where you dont have screws holding the plate snuggly.. this is where it vibrates.. i did the same thing.


btw.. if you dont know what Dynamat or mastic is... its basically a very thin foam like material with a sticky back on it. you can stick it anywhere under panels or underneath lining to keep stuff from rattling, keep inside noise (music) in, or keep outside noise out...

If you go to the G20 club at Yahoo. I posted a section on how to remove the door complete with pictures inthe Photo section ......

I agree with what someone else here said. Just go to an car audio store and have them kill the rattling problem for you. They will have all the materials.

any idea what the price would be at the audio shop?

doubt it would be much at all. depending on the shop they'll either do it for practically nothing at all... or in the worst case.. maybe an hour of labor.. $50-60 plus maybe $20 in material ...MAX ...max I'd pay anyway.

This is crap! Once again the rattling has returned on BOTH doors, the drivers side and passangers side. I have gone to the dealer twice about this, and both times they removed the panels and added padding, but the rattling comes back. My bass setting is only set to about 2-3 nothes, and i listen to rap music. But that shouldnt matter...because the panels should be designed to handle the bass. I go to the dealer because the do it free there, because the car is under warranty. I dont wanna go to some other place and pay like $150. But what should I do? What can I tell the dealer? Thanks

you should invest in a service manual and take apart the door panels yourself. locate where the rattle is coming from and dampen it.

had to take apart my dash just to get to this noise I was getting from it myself. :( it was kinda time consuming and some hard work, but WELL worth it! :D and I learned something too, so thats all good.

do it yourself.

i have my hole trunk and licence plate cover wiht dynamat and it's still
rattels , but not as much when i first started my system.
front 5.25 polk momo
rear 6.25 polk momo
two 12's polk momo in a compound bandpass box
punch 800 for the 12's
power 400 for the mids & hi. and many other things

koojo, did you take apart the door by yourself? just do it dude, dealers dont care about your car, only YOU can fix these kinda problems. or will cost you like 100bucks at the stereo shop.

ive taken it to the dealer twice to fix the damn doors and it still rattles. you can see where they put the padding because the part that rattles is out a little. im just gonna tell them to fix it good when i go in for my 15k check up, or else its not gonna be pretty

just take da thing apart and fix it yourself. saves you from long term distress and .... sounding like an idot? hehehe. j/k j/k. :p

i opened up my door panel to install a window, and this was for a 93 3door civicdx.

theres around 3 visible screws on the inside of your door

one should be covered by a plastic plug to hide the screw
one should be inside your arm rest where that little case is (you know the one where you pull to close the door)
one should be behind your door handle (when you pull this one out, you must also remove the black casing that encloses your switch and door handle"

remove all three screws.

next, you will have to pull off your mirror panel
the triangle comes off with a screwdriver
BUT BE VERY GENTLE when pullin this one off
you can scratch or even crack this piece

next, remove your manual window crank.
if you push in your interior around the crank a little bit it will reveal
a small silver circular piece that looks like a horse shoe
and it locks your window crank to your door
you need some sort of a hook tool to remove this one .
DO NOT PUSH TO HARD ON YOUR INTERIOR though you might crush something?

finally when you take off all these parts, you can pull off your door panel, either by sliding to the right or left im not sure which way but its probably the direction toward the rear of your car.

the rattling inside your will most likely be one of the following.

1 a bad speaker install, where all your wires are loose and not fastened to anyting
2 any sort of loose wiring from an alarm system
3 the plastic material inside your door which keeps the mornin dew
away from the interior of your car

good luck, remember to be very gentle over all about your car door pieces. do not scratch your pieces in any way or you will have to look at it for the rest of your cars duration.