tmuscedere

I recently found out what was causing the rattle in the dash over bumps (at least in my car it was). In the engine compartment there is the brake booster vacuum line that runs from the booster to the engine. The line comes close to the nissan plaque riveted to the firewall. It seems that the line is hitting the plaque causing the sound. I simply loosened the compression clamp closer to the engine and rotated the line. Have not had a rattle since. Hope this works for you guys as well.

Czerkas

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wow has it been bothering you that much??? i suppose i can give it a looksy

zero2sixtyZ

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I will have to check mine. I have I suppose similar noises in the dash. Thanks for a possible heads up.

tmuscedere

Actually, yes it was bothering me that much. That was the only squeak or rattle in the entire car so it annoyed me. Perfectly quiet now.

icemanf14d

if thats your only rattle, then id loove to have ur car.

i have a new rattle every day

its driving me insane.

if its not a rattle, its a squeak, if not then a grinding noise when braking, if now a click sound from the front left every minute or so at over 50 mph. its always something

ure lucky pal.

droobie

My current rattle is the metal trim-ring around my shifter. I put pieces of an old health insurance card in between the trim ring and the lower console plastic. This worked for a little while, but the problem is coming back.

Seems you can't just buy the trim ring, you have to buy the whole boot. At about 100 bucks.... frig that. It does drive me nuts though.

One of the other vibrations was caused by my Escort 8500 X50. The vibration of that thing against the glass seems to resonate pretty far.

wyche89

this issue bothers me alot too.. is there any way to prevent sqeaks and rattles in cars as they get older?

tmuscedere

On my old maxima (1990) the best way that I found to eliminate rattles where I could was to place O-rings between the parts the screws held together, and used the o-ring as a dampener. As for other parts that were clipped on together sometimes I used thin foam weatherstripping where the clips were to isolate the plastic parts.