It's hard enough when I have the car in front of me to find noises and you want someone to tell you over the internet what is making a particular noise!!!!! You are going to have to fix it the hard way, looking at everything that could possibly rattle and maybe taking the binnacle apart to track down the loose item. It could be the subpanel for the wiper module-flasher-buzzer, a loose steering column, hardware missing from inside the dash, you name it, it could cause rattling. Chances are you always had the noise but never noticed it till after you got the car back from the shop. It wouldn't hurt to go over the front end suspension to make sure everything is tight, exessive loosness in the front end will make any vibration worse. Removing and replacing the plate under the gas tank should have nothing to do with this but anything is possible, maybe the mechanic left a wrench in there that is causing the noise? In some stubborn cases the best advice is to make the radio louder. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, RJRavalli@xxxx wrote: > After getting my D back from the shop last week I've noticed another "minor" issue. When I hit certain roughness in the road I notice a rattling noise which seems to be coming from my binnacle--I've never noticed it before it happened in the past, but it seems to jump around a lot on its own. Now my mechanic did take off the front plate from underneath the car and cleaned off some rust. Could the rattling be coming from down there for some reason and vibrating up to my binnacle? Could it be something he forgot to tighten? Maybe something in the steering area got messed up from being off an on a lift for two weeks?? > > I'm stumped--anyone ideas on what could cause what I'm describing? > > Thank you, > > Richard