So I drive a 5spd 2k max and a friend of my dad drives an infinity 2k i30. He brought his car in to the dealer and they replaced his electronic motor mounts. Now they are telling him they have to manually reset his computer by removing his dash and doing it, it will cost roughly $1k, because his car is making this vibrating noise. They told him that his mounts are stuck in the drive setting and are not changing to the park or any other setting. I told him to let me take a look. When I was inspecting it, it looks like his radiator shroud is what is making a racket of a noise. We are going to replace it, because its not very expensive to repalce the shroud. Is the dealer giving him bs about the motor mount being stuck in the drive setting and not changing. Can he possibly just disconnect his neg battery terminal and reset the computer, for some reason they told him they couldn't do it with the computer. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Also, when comparing mine to his, my radiator shroud has little to no play and I have no vibration sound, while his shroud has alot of play and is causing the vibrating, no doubt in my mind. The noise starts when the fans turn on and stops when the fans turn off.

 

my 2000 i30t was making vibrating noises, shaking noises, mostly when i drive over small bumps. the dealer couldnt figure it out but then my mechanic did his reserach i guess. he replaced my motor mounts and the noise has been gone ever since. car even fills a little bit stiffer or maybe its supposed to and i was just used to the loose motor mount feel? actually, come to think of it, it doesnt feel that stiff anymore. anyway, i heard nothing about removing my dash and changing anything further. what they did was all that was needed. i dont know if he did that part himself and didnt mention it but changing any other settings never came up in our discussions. i am pretty sure we are talking about the same problem. hope this helps.

 

well this noise is deffinately comming from his radiator shroud. When I hold it to stop it from vibrating the noise isn't as bad, but it moves alot and I can't completely hold it still. I'm almost 100% positive that they would have had to remove this to get the motor mounts off anyways and it probobly got damaged in the process.

 

Typical dealer bullsh!t. You dont have to remove the dash to reset the ecu... Hell just pulling the battery does that! Replace the shroud and see what happens. God I hate the FUCCIN dealerships. They always try to fucc people in thw @ss.