Re: Binnacle rattling (?)

["jtrealtywebspannet" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

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