[adjmcloon]

Yep

I finally fixed my door rattles!

Same thing- rattling, rattling. I noticed that when opening the doors I would hear the weatherstripping make this suction type sound. I put some felt stripping behind the weatherstripping (on the body side) and their gone! I'm going to the store today to get some more to do every section where there's weatherstripping on the body side- bottom of the doors, rear gate, etc.

 

[adjmcloon]

Here you go

Ok guys,

This fix really, really works! I have eliminated easily 80% of my rattles.

You can use felt strip with adhesive backing, or simply go to Wal Mart in the fabric dept. and get the 6 ft box of velcro for $5- you'll then have 12 ft of material you can use. The velcro has a sticky side and a cloth side.

Pull the weatherstripping off that is attached to the body at inside top of the door holes. You'll know which one I'm referring to by seeing the grey trim strip on the inside of the cab up around the door sill. Pull that off, and just put your felt tape or 1/2 velcro strip along the door sill on the out side metal lip. Put the stripping back on, being careful to push the grey strip back into place on the inside of the cab. Problem solved! You'll be amazed at the difference if your ride is anything like mine. I can't believe the fix was this easy- I've been chasing it and couldn't eliminate it. I mean, who would have thought the weatherstripping would make a clicking noise?

I did every sq. inch for all 4 doors and the rear gate, and it's night and day. Now all I have are 2 seat squeaks and some console rattle and I will (hopefully) be rattle free!

Maybe I can finally enjoy this thing after the past year. Lord, let's hope so.

I will try to post pics tomorrow- got to run back to Wally World and get camera batteries.

 

[adjmcloon]

Pics and more info

Ok y'all,

Snapped so pics so you'll know what I'm referring to on the weatherstripping fix. It's pretty self explanatory once you see the pics- just pull off the weatherstripping that has the grey trim attached, pop on some felt tape or one side of some velcro stripping, and put it back.

This should eliminate the body flex noises and other noises you all no doubt have like I do. Who'd a thunk weatherstripping could be so noisy!

Anyway, the pics:

 

[adjmcloon]

Congrats!

I'm very happy for you man. I've been going "Ahhhhhh..." everytime I ride down the road that used to give me fits before. It's so nice to not have the friggin' rattles.

My service guy kept insisting it was my audio install (that I did myself). I can't wait to call him out on it tomorrow- what an asswipe.

Nice DVD player you have there too- I like mine as well.

Cheers!

 

[adjmcloon]

Hmm

So are you sure it's your weatherstripping and not something else?

I did just the top half of my doors, although I am going to do the bottom half this weekend just because. You might have to get wifey to drive you around and see if you can find it.

On a different note, my last trip to the stealership I had an asspile of things for them to fix, almost 1/2 of them rattles. Not only did they not fix them, but the other day when I was doing the weatherstripping project I noticed they had taken my glove box out and not put it back in correctly. One screw at the bottom was 1/2 out and the other one was missing! You'd think they would actually attempt to repair things correctly. Sorry, I had to rant. Nissan service sucks.

Good luck with your rattle chasing, llajumpvid. I've got some very small ones popping up when I go over railroad tracks coming from the console I think, so my chasing isn't over yet, either.