Hi Mark - responses on the DML are roughly 50:50, and it's unrelated to the VIN. Dave Stragand has it on Vixen, as does Walter Coe and a few others. It would appear to be a factory thing. Joy of Joys, Motorworld in Maidstone has re-opened, and I got some self-adhesive sound deadening matting. Should plug the 'ole nicely! Martin Mark Bourne wrote: > Martin > > I have checked on some photos of underbodies including Dave's > one and the only square hole cut out in the transmission tunnel is for the > gear selector lever .Hopefully if you plug the other one up, it should > reduce the noise. > > Mark