I hadn't seen any similar thread with anyone having a series of multiple sound issues, and just wanted to list it in case anyone is having any similar issues, and looking for possible solutions. Last night for the first time since delivery I was able to drive home to the sounds of sweet silence. I took delivery of my P85D the end of December and I have been loving it and driving the heck out of it. So I am not unhappy by any means, I was willing to live with the sounds if there was not a fix, but man I am so glad there were. I don't think of myself as super high maintenance, but the car had multiple pretty intrusive noises that took a while and multiple attempts and visits to resolve one by one. I just wanted to share in case your having one of these as I have seen people post one or the other issue, I feel like I had most of them.
Steering Wheel Gasket - From delivery I had a loud low deep noise that sounded like a moan every time that I turned the steering wheel at low speeds. They isolated it down they found that the gasket that surrounds the steering wheel column instead of being attached at two places was broken and only attached at one and was kinking up every time the steering wheel was turned. They initially tried lubricating it but helped a little. When they finally replaced the gasket the sound was resolved.
Front end noise - Also at low speed, after the groaning was fixed the was a noticeable creaking coming from somewhere in the front end, to me it sounded like it was to the left. It was unaffected by turning the steering wheel, and going over speed bumps no matter how slowly really brought it on. I have seen others posting about a bolt that had to be torqued correctly, but that didn't help for me. For me it ended up being a part of the wheel lining was butting up against the wheel assembly and had to be properly tacked up.
Sunroof - I realized when I ordered the sunroof that I was opening myself up to living with some noise, but mine would at times sound like being under creaking bedsprings. Often if it started squeaking opening and closing it and allowing it to reseat would solve the problem. In mine, if you pushed on the front where there is the metal lip that sticks out when it was closed it would squeak, they placed some tape on that metal and it helped, but I would still get pretty impressive noise from around the crossbeam area. They finally removed the glass and applied noise reducing tape voilà sound is gone.
Front Dash - I had a crackling noise that almost sounded like a bad speaker coming from the front dash towards the left A pillar speaker which would seem to come on whenever I drove between 40 - 60. Another P85D friend of mine who took delivery same time frame as mine mentioned that they had to take his dash off and found a small shard of metal laying on his speaker. For me it took several appointments and they finally removed my dash applied noise reducing tape and the sound is blissfully gone.
Steering Wheel Gasket - From delivery I had a loud low deep noise that sounded like a moan every time that I turned the steering wheel at low speeds. They isolated it down they found that the gasket that surrounds the steering wheel column instead of being attached at two places was broken and only attached at one and was kinking up every time the steering wheel was turned. They initially tried lubricating it but helped a little. When they finally replaced the gasket the sound was resolved.
Front end noise - Also at low speed, after the groaning was fixed the was a noticeable creaking coming from somewhere in the front end, to me it sounded like it was to the left. It was unaffected by turning the steering wheel, and going over speed bumps no matter how slowly really brought it on. I have seen others posting about a bolt that had to be torqued correctly, but that didn't help for me. For me it ended up being a part of the wheel lining was butting up against the wheel assembly and had to be properly tacked up.
Sunroof - I realized when I ordered the sunroof that I was opening myself up to living with some noise, but mine would at times sound like being under creaking bedsprings. Often if it started squeaking opening and closing it and allowing it to reseat would solve the problem. In mine, if you pushed on the front where there is the metal lip that sticks out when it was closed it would squeak, they placed some tape on that metal and it helped, but I would still get pretty impressive noise from around the crossbeam area. They finally removed the glass and applied noise reducing tape voilà sound is gone.
Front Dash - I had a crackling noise that almost sounded like a bad speaker coming from the front dash towards the left A pillar speaker which would seem to come on whenever I drove between 40 - 60. Another P85D friend of mine who took delivery same time frame as mine mentioned that they had to take his dash off and found a small shard of metal laying on his speaker. For me it took several appointments and they finally removed my dash applied noise reducing tape and the sound is blissfully gone.
