Rattle above front passenger grab handle

[Dude]

Thanks!! Maybe saves the cost of the screws so about $0.000001 per vehicle​

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[Ernest T]

Thanks!! Maybe saves the cost of the screws so about $0.000001 per vehicle​

To paraphrase Senator Everett Dirksen, a $0.000001 here and a $0.000001 there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.

 

[Chiefthepup]

UPDATEID NOT FIX IT FOR MORE THAN A DAY

FIXED IT! OH THANK GOD JESUS!

Idk why this particular tapping/rattle noise was so enraging to me but after a couple weeks of trying EVERYTHING I got it to finally shut up on my way home today.

The whole story is as follows

I initially put cloth tape behind seatbelt mounting bracket on B pillar and taped white plastic housing at top of B pillar behind headliner. Neither were my issue.

While my wife drove I had my trim removed and headliner lowered and I touched every bolt, plug, wire, plastic etc with absolutely zero effect on rattle (careful not to trigger air bag, I realize how not smart that move was but I was reaching a point where I didn’t care if that airbag took my head off if it meant getting rid of this god forsaken noise)

The only thing that for sure stopped the noise was pushing on the metal bracket that holds the right side of grab handle. If I pushed on headliner directly under the hole as hard as I could it would stop it as well.

So while driving today on my way home I put needle nose pliers in the hole of the bracket at an angle and when the click would start I applied pressure. Lo and behold the sound stopped. If I removed pressure it started again. So out of frustration I applied enough pressure to bend the bracket ever so slightly, not as hard as I could so as not to destroy the hole for grab handle. But just enough to feel like it was readjusting the angle. And voila, the noise is gone.

I realize this little maneuver does not require a write up but I feel like I have my sanity back now and am sharing this for anyone in the future so they don’t have to endure the constant rattle.

TLDR; used needle nose pliers inserted in right side of bracket for grab handle and bent it (pushed handle of pliers towards passenger window) til the rattle stopped

 

[Ernest T]

Congratulations! Desperate times call for desperate measures!

 

[Dude]

Glad you got it fixed

perhaps was a parasitic vibration (structural resonance)…. not something we would all experience

 

[Chiefthepup]

Update: rattle is back. It fixed it for a minute and it was such a beautiful silence but short lived. I’ll kept you guys updated. I’ll let my next “fix” go for a few weeks before reporting back

 

[Ernest T]

Update: rattle is back. It fixed it for a minute and it was such a beautiful silence but short lived. I’ll kept you guys updated. I’ll let my next “fix” go for a few weeks before reporting back

 

[Chiefthepup]

Update: pulled down headliner and touched everything I could, again. The click reliably happens when I moved the right bracket to grab handle. The slightest amount of pressure caused a click. You could even hear it through the roof on the outside of vehicle. But nothing I touched stopped it. It almost is like the aluminum warped somewhere just enough for the slightest movement to make a click noise.
Stuffed a microfiber towel in void between where grab handle brackets are welded to and roof.
Click gone.
I think the microfiber towel absorbs whatever the noise is and prevents it from travelling anywhere further. Idk. Thank god it’s gone though idc how janky it is haha.

 

[Dude]

janky fixes are the best when u tried the rest

 

[jkernitzki]

Update: pulled down headliner and touched everything I could, again. The click reliably happens when I moved the right bracket to grab handle. The slightest amount of pressure caused a click. You could even hear it through the roof on the outside of vehicle. But nothing I touched stopped it. It almost is like the aluminum warped somewhere just enough for the slightest movement to make a click noise.
Stuffed a microfiber towel in void between where grab handle brackets are welded to and roof.
Click gone.
I think the microfiber towel absorbs whatever the noise is and prevents it from travelling anywhere further. Idk. Thank god it’s gone though idc how janky it is haha.

Hey, it’s a creative, reversible solution, and it works. At least you didn’t go the spray foam route.

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